By daylight, Huambo looks nearly beautiful. There is a lot of destruction, more by war than through total neglect. Some houses and streets are being rebuild and done up with rows of freshly painted houses.
I’m taking a mota to the Praça Nova (new market place) to find out about transport direction Lubango. It’s far out, […]

Huambo, hellhole of the world, destroyed by thirty years of fighting, where rusty tank wrecks sunk wheel deep in the mud are decorating street corners and UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi had his headquarters, whose dead in combat marked the end of the civil war in 2002. The praça after dark is an eerie sight, a […]

Monday morning. The only truck going east to Huambo is huge and will only leave when full. This turns out to happen around 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The road follows the Benguela railway, build in the beginning of the 20th century to transport copper from the Belgian Congo and Northern Rodesia to the Atlantic […]

Stuck in Ganda. No transport to Huambo this late Sunday afternoon, to be continued tomorrow morning…

ADRA, an American NGO, is organising workshops at Pensao Rodrigues about democracy, conflict management and human rights in preparation of the elections.

Nelito, history teacher at the secondary school in Cubal.