ANGOLA

BACKGROUND

• Still rebuilding country.
• Fighting for popular movement (liberation of angola)
• Independence from portugal in 1975
• Savimbi's death occurs in 2002

GEOGRAPHY

• Southern Africa, bordering south Atlantic Ocean.
• Slightly less than twice the size of Texas
• 1,246,700 square km

PEOPLE AND SOCIETY

• Language: portuguese and banto
• Population:19,088,106
• Indegenous beliefs: roman catholics and protestant
• Mumila tribes

GOVERNMENT

• Capital is luanda
• 18 provinces
• Suffrage: 18 years

ECONOMY

• High growth rate
• High international prices
• Member of OPEC
• Oil production at 85%
• Substinence agriculature is huge

ENERGY

• Fossil fuels at 56.9%
• Hydro electric power-43.1%
• Consumption is at 4.952 billion
• Installed generating is at 1,555 million kw
• Renewable energy and solar power is being considered

COMMUNICATION

• Telephone use: 303,000
• Mobile phone use: 9.8 billion
• Limited system
• State owned telecom had monopoly for fixed lines
• Prices are high

TRANSPORTATION

• A network of infrastructures have been developed
• Increase of people and goods
• Trade growth
• Ports, airports, railways and roads
• Investment project to renew railway lines

ANGOLA MILITARY

• Army, navy, air force numbering over 100,000
• Active frontline personnel: 87,000
• Active reserve personnel: 30,000
• Oil remaims lifeblood of any fighting force

TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES

• Shifting monuments
• Forced labor in agriculture, diamond mines, and domestic service
• Postitution
• 20,740 democratic republic refugees
• Used as trans-shipment point for cocaine destined for western europe

PROBLEMS

• Angola is faced with extreme poverty
• Aid from US isn't going to the people
• Lack of government developing basic needs and services for people
• 76% of people there live in slums

PROBLEMS

• Investment in human capital is severly lacking
• Lack of investment in education and government isn't addressing it
• Angolan workers aren't skilled and cannot find work
• The government isn't intervening

PROBLEMS..

• Angola faces extreme water shortages
• Price of water has doubled there due to shortage
• Maintenance issue occured causing ruptured main
• Undergoing huge reconstruction

AID

• Total amount coming in: $114.1 billion
• The biggest donor? The US
• What is the money used for? Education, general water, energy and mining, etc
• Improved water source, school enrollment rate, HIV and malaria control
• Learning for all project

EFFECTIVE AID?

• Aid in angola has proven to be effective
• They have finished multiple projects to help their country
• Improved growth in education is huge as well as water lines
• Large sums of money gone to health and medicine

COMPARISON

• The water problem in angola is similar to the one in rwanda
• 70% of people trek for hours just to collect water
• Bacteria amd contaminents in water
• Cycle of poverty

SOLUTIONS TO ISSUES

• More money to people in rural areas
• Help spread the money to everyone
• More direction and reforms to government
• UN aid to help get rid of child labor and prostitution
• Essential services for ALL