Posted on 06/09/08
With a booming economy benefiting the elites, regular Angolans find little solace in democracy
LUANDA, ANGOLA -- At the first sound of nighttime rain on the scrap-metal roof of her shack, Ines Monteiro wakes her husband and four children. She hustles them from the two beds they share, out into their metre-wide yard. And they stand there, for as long as the rain falls - sometimes as many seven hours. In daytime rains, they stand out, too: their house is perched on the side
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