The Absent President and Angolas Future
In the last few months, health concerns have prompted President José Eduardo dos Santos to make several trips to Spain for medical treatment. According to sources who spoke to Maka Angola on condition...
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Nair’s Death
I have often asked myself about the cost of a human life in Angola. Nair’s death pained me, but it was the pain of someone who is powerless and not able to do anything about it. In the last few days, I...
View ArticleYellow Fever Epidemic in Luanda Claims Three Siblings
An epidemic of yellow fever on the outskirts of the Angolan capital, Luanda, which has already claimed an estimated 100 lives, has scythed through one family , taking three of their four children in a...
View ArticleThe Children’s Corridor of Death in Angola’s Second Hospital
There are more than 40 people in the room, most of them sitting or lying on their cotton wraps on the floor. The heat is unbearable, as is the stink of sweat and dirt. The windows are permanently left...
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The Morgue.
It’s barely 2am at Luanda’s Josina Machel Hospital, the largest in Angola, but already vehicles are queuing in a long line at the entrance. Most carry coffins. Others bear the unboxed bodies. Over...
View ArticleTales from the Crypt: Angola’s Hidden Hospital Horrors
Morgue Tax “Sick people don’t have to pay. Only the dead.” At face value, this remark from one of the administrators of the Regional Hospital in Cafunfo, in the province of Lunda Norte seems to make...
View ArticleWHO Alarm: Zika Virus on the Rise in Angola
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a health emergency alert about a possible Zika outbreak in Angola, urging the Angola Ministry of Health to immediately begin implementing its planned...
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