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

I’m arriving in 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. We are driving into the city […]

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, I’m wondering if we’ll make it all the way.
The road follows the Benguela railway, build in the beginning of the 20th century to transport copper from the […]

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

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Originally uploaded by gert.

Originally uploaded by gert.

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

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Nelito and his family, history teacher at the secundary school of Cubal.

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