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07/16/2004:

"Africa Lags In U.N. Wealth Ranking"

The U.N.'s annual ranking of the global rich and poor showed stark differences Thursday as AIDS pushes African nations further into misery while the most of the rest of the world creeps toward higher development.

"The picture that emerges is increasingly one of two very different groups of countries: those that have benefited from development and those that have been left behind," the report said.

Full Article : cbsnews.com