Humanitarian Action and Development / Comment
Analysis of the Angola case: conflict and its humanitarian implications
17/01/2007 By Riccardo Polastro
It is a fact that armed confrontation led to the abandonment of 80 per cent of productive land, and also deprived 68 per cent of the population from having drinking water, and denied access to the primary health care system to 76 per cent of the population; therefore, it is worth highlighting that “significant humanitarian assistance is necessary for the near future, as well as rehabilitation and aid for long-term development, to help the most vulnerable sectors of the population and consolidate the peacekeeping process”.
For this reason, restoring the devastated base infrastructures and reintegrating the refugee population that was displaced and affected by war are still a priority to gain Angola’s stabilisation.
Furthermore, it is as well of utmost importance to demobilise and reintegrate 105,000 guerrilla members of the UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) and their families in order to prevent conflict resurgence in a society with 70 per cent of the population living in conditions of extreme poverty.
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Keywords
Angola Conflict prevention Development Humanitarian aid Sub-Saharan AfricaBio author: Riccardo Polastro
