Three years after the end of a brutal, 27-year civil war, 150 000 Angolan schoolchildren are being fed by the World Food Programme (WFP), which plans to double that figure by 2006. The WFP and the Angolan government this week launched one of many feeding programmes in the village of Sachifunga.
Angola grappled on Tuesday to contain a deadly outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus, which has claimed a record toll of 126 according to doctors and officials in the field, but the government said the number of dead is lower. Health officials in the field said 126 have died but the government said the fatalities number 117.
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/ 17 January 2005
Like much of the hidden richness of Africa, the diamond mine at Catoca in eastern Angola strikes the rare visitor as a surprising oasis of wealth in the middle of a desert of poverty. The open-sky mineworks look like a huge upside-down pyramid where the Catoca Mining Company turns out more than three-million carats of rough diamond a year.