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![[Nigeria] Children in Makoko, a slum of houses on stilts in central Lagos, Nigeria. Some 15,00 people live here in the most basic conditions imaginable. [Date picture taken: 08/23/2006]](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/images/2006957.jpg)
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