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How did Zambia become in poverty?

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Zambia became poverty stricken when Kenneth Kaunda's government nationalised the copper mines soon after independence. The mines soon became inefficient and badly run. This was exaggerated by a world wide slump in copper prices from which Zambia has never recovered.

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