Last updated: 28 july, 2009 - 16:13 GMT

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"Baghdad", "Iraq" and "Camama" - these are names of illegal settlements where poor people used to live in the Angolan capital, Luanda.

The government began to forcibly evict them last week and thousands of people have had their homes demolished since then.

Today some of the newly homeless people - around 200 of them - staged a rare protest outside parliament, while MPs debated the latest budget.

Focus on Africa's reporter in Luanda is Louise Redvers.

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