Day 5: Angola

[phk]

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ao.html

Discuss

[Platypus]

I think they are starting to wake up from the Civil War nightmare, only to be thrust into the AIDS one. Angola actually has a very low HIV/AIDS rate for the region, mainly because of the Civil War, but now they are catching up with the rest.

Not a perfect democracy, but change is happenning. For the first time in a long, long time, Angola is independent and generally united, and that's got to be positive at least in a small way.

[minionofmidas]

And they qualified for the World Cup and will be playing Portugal here in Frankfurt.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

One of the worst and longest running civil wars, that got almost no attention. One of the worst things the US ever did was support those child soldier-using slave-trading, butchering UNITA bastards. Ugh.

But another country that deserves credit for kicking the ass of their European colonizing oppressors. In this case, a fringe benefit was not only did they kick the Portuguese out, they forced the collapse of the fascist regime there as well.

[Schmitz in 1972]

And they qualified for the World Cup and will be playing Portugal here in Frankfurt.

Should be interesting given that they were originally a colony of Portugal. Their independence is on veterans day. Quite fitting given all the veterans that must be in the country now with the civil war finally over.

[Beet]

Wasn't SA heavily involved?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Wasn't SA heavily involved?

Not quite so much. They carried out a few air raids against government targets, but nothing major. They were much more so in Mozambique.