How The World Bank Broke Its Promise To Protect The Poor

By Sasha Chavkin, Ben Hallman, Michael Hudson, Cécile Schilis-Gallego and Shane Shifflett   -Huff Post ICIJ

With reporting from Musikilu Mojeed, Besar Likmeta, Ciro Barros, Giulia Afiune, Mar Cabra, Anthony Langat, Jacob Kushner, Jeanne Baron, Barry Yeoman, Blaž Zgaga and Friedrich Lindenberg.

Beneath a gloomy white sky, more than 100 armed police poured into the slum of Badia East in the teeming megacity of Lagos, Nigeria.

As they advanced, they cracked their batons on the unpaved streets and against the ramshackle walls of the shanties.

“If you love your life, move out!” the officers shouted.

Thousands of people grabbed what belongings they could carry and fled.

Then a line of hulking excavators moved in, using their hydraulic claws to smash homes into pieces. Within hours, the neighborhood was a ruin.

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