Infrastructure Angola achieved independence with an excellent infrastructure for a thinly populated country. The Portuguese had improved the communication and inland transport infrastructure to make the export of goods back to Portugal efficient. Infrastructure suffered from the effects of war and lack of maintenance. There have been foreign funded initiatives to restore the rail and road systems, but change is slow.
Civil war resurfaces now and again, destroying little rehabilitation that has been achieved.
The road network Tarred roads link the major centers of economic activity and provide access to Congo-Kinshasa, Namibia and Zambia. Many bridges, destroyed during fighting, are yet to be reconstructed. There is an added danger of stumbling on land mines when traveling on unfrequented roads. The public transport system has been said to be unreliable and has been suspended in some regions. The economy continues to surfer because of poor ill-maintained roads.