Angola

Rich in natural resources (mainly oil, gas, manganese and diamonds) and with four major ports on its thousands of miles of southern African Atlantic coastline, the battered country of Angola nevertheless remains steeped in poverty, disease and social disarray, lacking infrastructure and littered with millions of unexploded landmines. Its distressed and dangerous state is a legacy of more than a quarter of a century of bloody civil war, which followed independence from Portugal ... More about Angola