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Despite Oil Wealth, Iraq's Basra Plagued by Broken Infrastructure, Poverty and Violence
Year
2018
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
7m 31s
Publication Information
NewsHour Productions
Summary
Basra, in southern Iraq, contains much of the country's oil wealth -- yet residents there are struggling just to survive. The city lacks basic services like clean water and reliable electricity, and jobs are rare. But people taking to the streets to protest what they see as government failures to provide say they've been brutally punished. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports.