The United Nations has described Angola as the worst place on earth for a human being to live, and the worst place for a child to be born. The country has 80,000 land mine victims, many of them children, from a devastating decades-long civil war. Luanda, the capital city, originally built by Portuguese colonists to accommodate half a million people, today, thanks to the war, has more than three million refugees cram the streets. Clearly, Luanda has seen better days. Luanda today is a melting pot of shacks, of shanty towns and the most abject misery.
Electricity is a huge problem.
People die everyday with malaria because of the mosquitoes, because of the pools of rotten water, because of open sewage. It's a huge mess. Even the government admits it doesn't know what to do about the crisis. We are an overwhelmed nation by problems. Most of the countryside is destroyed.