New Luanda's gleaming towers

Angola is planning the biggest urban project ever attempted in Africa. A mega-city south of Luanda, even larger than Brazil's inland capital of Brasilia, is to house four million people from the overcrowded capital, to which more than half of the country's population migrated during the 25-year civil war. Chinese building companies employing Angolan workers are to undertake the project, paid for by Angola's new oil wealth.

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Brazil, Chinese, Banco de Desenvolvimento, Habitat SOS, Nova Vida, Roque Santeiro, Roque

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