Of recent African developments, it can be said that
A. South African hopes collapsed when President Nelson Mandela established a dictatorship.
B. true pluralistic democracy came to Algeria, at last, in 1995.
C. poverty is still endemic in Africa, particularly in the population that lives off the land.
D. the termination of Soviet support for Marxism in Ethiopia produced starvation in Nigeria.
E. U.S. forces occupied Somalia in 1992 to establish an East African military base.
Answer: C
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