Inside Angola
The twenty seven year civil war saw Angola, with its population of some thirteen million, a devastated country, its economy in ruins and its infrastructure shattered. Worse still, the country remains, to this day, littered with landmines. Life expectancy there is just 38yrs and Angola has the second worst child mortality rate in the world, only outdone by Sierra Leone, in fact, over one in four children inside Angola are dead before their fifth birthday. This is partly due to poor access to safe water with many getting their water supplies from unprotected wells causing high rates of cholera and diarrhoea.
The country still has to import over half its food needs and it is estimated that 45% of children inside Angola suffer from malnutrition, with just over 40% of the entire population living on less than 60p a day. Emotionally around half of all children inside the worst war torn areas of Angola have been shot at, lost their homes, or seen neighbours and members of their families killed.
There is widespread trafficking in Angola with boys being shipped to Namibia to herd cattle whilst girls are trafficked both internally and externally to South Africa, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo for domestic servitude. Recent figures are not available, but about 85% of the population working inside Angola are engaged in agriculture with the remaining 15% employed by the industry and services sectors.
Today Angola is undertaking a major rebuilding program with foreign loans, however there are allegations that monies provided are subject to corruption and the rebuilding is slow due to mismanagement and the high rate of inflation running at 10% (although this has much reduced from the 325% of 2000). This short video provides a glimpse of daily life inside Angola today.
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