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opportunities. As of 1997, only 34% of the population was illiterate and about 30% of the inhabitants had received education up to secondary level. In the same year about 42% of the country's total civil servants were working in the province and two-thirds of the province's inhabitants were above the poverty line. This was due to the presence of the country's capital in the province . The province was located on a plateau generally called "The Blue Forest". It was the most important political and commercial centre in
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