Water Resource Management Under Changing Climate in Angolan Coastal Cities – Cain – Water International Journal (forthcoming)

Angola emerged recently from what was one of Africa’s longest protracted conflicts. The independence war that began in 1961 was followed by a civil war that lasted from independence in 1975 and ended only in 2002. Four decades of war caused a massive demographic shift of populations from rural conflict areas to the relatively safer coastal urban settlements, resulting in a rapid urbanisation of the country. Angola over this period was the most rapidly urbanising country in the southern African region. The city of Luanda with a growth rate averaging at 7% is the fastest growing city in Africa. Its present population is more than 6.5 million and it could be a mega-city of over 10 million people before the end of the decade