War Legacy
War's aftermath leaves children starving to death.
Emaciated children form a queue for milk -their bloated faces too big for their skeletal frames. Laura Cahari has come with her children to the Nutritional Centre of Medicins Sans Frontieres after 2 years hiding in the forests during the civil war. "The worst thing was the hunger - there were only raw mushrooms. My children vomited every time I gave them something to eat." The MSF camp has been heavily frequented since the April ceasefire. Every day, 20-30 people arrive there with severely undernourished children. "They are in an extremely bad nutritional condition," tells one nurse. The peace process however is already having a positive effect. At the arms collection centre in Sobo Matthiasch, a Unita fighter hands over his gun and registers. Unita officers and the regular army together enforce the disarmament. "Our absolute priority is disarmament - we discuss and solve any problems ourselves," says one former Unita rebel. But with ½ a million threatened with starvation, peace is only the first hurdle in Angola's uphill struggle.
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