Angola opposition highlights power shortages

Angolan opposition leader Isaías Samakuva is highlighting the ruling party’s continued failure to deliver basic services following last year’s elections, the second since the civil war ended a decade ago. Visiting the United States and Europe in late April and early May, he repeatedly warned his interlocutors that they should not be misled by the apparent calm in the country. “Angola is sitting on a powder keg,” the leader of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (Unita) told African Energy in an interview, saying that Angolans were urging his party to organise protests against the lack of power, water and health services.