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A woman uses a rope and a plastic container to get water from the Olympic size pool to wash clothes at the Grande Hotel in Beira on October 12, 2024. The Grande Hotel in Mozambique's second city of Beira, around 4,000 people living in squalor cling desperately to the hope that October 2024's election will bring change to their hard lives The hotel, with sweeping views of the Indian Ocean, is a portrait of the desperation of Mozambique where around 75 percent of the 33 million people live in poverty, the country still scarred by a 16-year civil war The hotel was built in the 1950s when Mozambique was still a colony of Portugal. (Photo by Zinyange Auntony/AFP Photo)
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