Peace in our Time
he peace process in Angola is frustratingly slow
A convoy carrying food supplies crawls slowly across Angola's border. Peace in this country progresses at much the same pace. Every week a Joint Commission of UNITA and MPLA leaders meet in the capital, Luanda, to wrangle the peace accord forward. The main item on the agenda is UNITA's delay in demobilising its army, which given their control over the country's diamond reserves it seems unwilling to do. The MPLA also have their hold over Angola's natural resources; they drill for oil and, more often than not, line their own pockets. Meanwhile children suffer from malnutrition, and people are unable to tend to their land for fear of landmines. ABC Australia reports from Angola, investigating its slow transition to peace.
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