The plaster falls from the walls. The water supply is always being interrupted. Deep holes in the streets have not been attended to for months. There is a lack of vital medicines in the hospitals. The telephone system functions miserably in this city of three million inhabitants.
Children beg for alms in the streets and sleep in doorways at night.
Through the streets hobble those who had a limb amputated, victims of mines. The Government says it doesn t have money to give invalid a prosthesis. At the same time, Angola is rich. It possesses enormous deposits of oil and diamonds, iron, gold and very fertile soil for agriculture, more than one can hope for. The principal problem in Angola is not the material damage caused by the war.