Angola to Use US$45M to Cleanup Luanda City

{{The Angolan Government will spend about $45 million to keep Luanda clean until the end of the year, an official has said.}}

“We are going to create 25 points of transparency, 50 points of waste gathering and 600 motor-cycles will be distributed to help in the cleaning process” Luanda’s Deputy Governor Adriano Mendes de Carvalho was quoted as saying.

Located on Angola’s coast with the Atlantic Ocean to its west, Luanda is the country’s largest port and the 22nd filthiest cities in the world.

Luanda clean-up project will cost $25.6 million while needed materials will be at $ 18.7 million.

Apart from improving public health and environment, the two programs will also generate employment to local citizens.

Studies from several agencies, including Unicef and Oxfam, suggest that a large portion of the population in Luanda do not have access to clean water.

Much of this portion of the population lives in settlements called musseques built on hardened waste.

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