Angola, along with Mozambique, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan, has in recent years been one of the nations targeted in the “Emergency Plan for Africa.” The long-term urban crisis in Angola’s capital Luanda has been exacerbated during “Emergency” by the influx of Displaced Persons comings in areas destabilised by insurgents. Ongoing cycles of political disruption and localized rural drought dating back to the independence war against Portuguese colonialism remain unbroken today and fuel this rural to urban migration. An extremely high population growth rate of 8 percent has resulted in Luanda in the years since independence. As Angola enters a new era of peace and reconstruction the pressures on urban centres like Luanda are unlikely to abate as refugees from abroad and returnees from the bush are reintegrated into national society.
