Angola demolishes slum homes  Updated December 09, 2005 11:11:00
Angola has become the latest African country to start
demolishing the homes of people living in city slums.  Housing
activists say more than 600 homes have been demolished in the
Angolan capital, Luanda, in the last two weeks.  Many of the
residents are believed to be still living in the same area
without shelter.  Police have detained a number of people who
protested as the destruction took place.  Angolan authorities
last destroyed homes en masse in 2001 when 10,000 shacks were
knocked down.  A number of other southern African countries have
done the same in response to the population explosion in major
cities.  None have compared to Zimbabwe's demolition drive,
which has made hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
Topics: poverty, homelessness, angola  First posted December 09,
2005 11:02:00