Angola urges UK to take new measures on poverty

Call over protecting most vulnerable citizens comes before UN review of Britain's human rights record

Angola has urged the UK to adopt an emergency poverty strategy to protect its most vulnerable citizens from the cost-of-living crisis.

The call - from a country where more than half of its population of 34 million people live on less than $2 (1.75) a day, on behalf of citizens of one of the world's richest - was among several concerns raised before a UN review of the UK's human rights record today.