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The shanty towns that choke the cities of Asia and Africa are experiencing unstoppable growth, expanding by more than a million
\npeople every week, according to the "State of the World Population 2007" report.<\/p>\n

The UN’s findings echo recent predictions that 2008 will see a watershed in human history as the balance of the world’s population
\ntips from rural to urban.<\/p>\n

The report maintains that, over the next 30 years, the population of African and Asian cities will double, adding 1.7 billion people —
\nmore than the current populations of the United States and China combined. In this new world the majority of the urban poor will be
\nunder age 25, unemployed and vulnerable to religious fundamentalism, both Christian and Islamic.<\/p>\n

For full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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