Poverty in Iraq's Basra rises to record 40%

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The Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) has warned that the Iraqi city and governorate of Basra is suffering from an increasingly high poverty rate, with almost 40 per cent of residents now living below the poverty line. The poverty rate in the southern province of Basra and its port city has sharply increased since the former Iraqi Planning Minister Nuri Al-Dulaimi*predicted*back in May that the coronavirus pandemic would cause Iraq's poverty rate to rise by over 20 per cent. The UN then predicted that same month that the poverty rate in the country as a whole would*double to 40 per cent*this year. The primary reason for the sharp increase in the poverty rate is reportedly due […]

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