Angola’s hosting of African Cup of Nations boosts revival from civil war
Submitted by CheetahBlogger on December 26, 2009 – 11:50 pmNo Comment
The arrival of the continent’s premier football tournament is a vote of confidence in a nation once seen as beyond hope but which is now courted by superpowers
Just read a heartwarming article in the The Observer, Sunday 27 December 2009 by Tracy McVeigh
Here are a few highlights from it:
- Traffic defines life in Luanda, Angola’s rapidly expanding capital. Traffic and fresh concrete. “It’s one big building site,”
- in three weeks Angola will stage the African Cup of Nations, after hosting last week’s Opec meeting and securing its first IMF loan and the billions of dollars China has already given to the country in credit.
- Just seven years after the end of a civil war that raged for 27 years and claimed up to million lives while displacing four million people, Angola is booming
- economic growth for 2010 is predicted to exceed 8%.
- Angola may well be a building site with new hospitals and schools and more roads being built, but we have problems finding the properly educated and qualified staff to run them.
Read full article here
