Financial Crisis Threatens the Most Vulnerable
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Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · Nonprofits & Activism
As the humanitarian crisis worsens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, aid workers are warning that the global financial crisis will hurt the world's most vulnerable people -- not just in the Congo but elsewhere as well. Some humanitarian aid agencies are now predicting that death rates for the world's poorest could increase rapidly as the global recession deepens. VOA's Mandy Clark reports from London
