Over a decade since the end of its long-running civil war, Angola remains a closed and repressive society, where a small political, military and business elite enjoys a lavish lifestyle while the vast majority of the population lives in acute poverty with little – or no – access to water, sanitation, health, shelter, education and other basic human rights. Elections, economic growth and a new constitution should have contributed to a more open and democratic society. But the opposite is the case.
