In oil-rich Angola, poverty, hunger and deadly unrest over fuel price hikes | Poverty and Development News

Cape Town, South Africa – For Julio Candero, two moments stand out from the recent protests in Angola: the image of a woman being shot from behind by a policeman and the protest cry: “Temos fome – ‘We’re hungry.’”

Following days of demonstrations against the government’s reduction in fuel subsidies, which included looting and burning tyres in the streets, calm has returned to the capital, Luanda, and other parts of the country where protests raged last week.

However, amid the…