Angola Politics

Sixteen years of civil war, central planning, corruption and salt air have turned this seaside capital of 2.5 million into Africa's most awesome ruins. Water taps often run dry. Sewage overflows into street gutters. Power outages are endemic. And tens of thousands of the destitute and hopeless camp in crumbling, abandoned buildings and beg for food.

Sixteen years of civil war, central planning, corruption and salt air have turned this seaside capital of 2.5 million into Africa's most awesome ruins. Water taps often run dry. Sewage overflows into street gutters. Power outages are endemic. And tens of thousands of the destitute and hopeless camp in crumbling, abandoned buildings and beg for food.