Angola: a giant awakes.(Feature)(Travel narrative) From: New African | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 IC Publications Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For the first time in decades, the telephone system works in Angola, rubbish gets collected and, thanks to a significant injection of foreign money, the country's long-suffering transport network--a cratered wreck just four years ago--is getting back to normal. Peaceful, rejuvenated and halfway along the path to political and economic atonement, the reality on the ground suggests that a corner has, at last, been turned. Brendan Sainsbury reports.

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