War Legacy

War's aftermath leaves children starving to death.

War Legacy After spending two years in hiding during the civil war, families are now being treated for malnutrition in Angola.
Emaciated children form a queue for milk -their bloated faces too big for their skeletal frames. Laura Cahari has come with her children to the Nutritional Centre of Medicins Sans Frontieres after 2 years hiding in the forests during the civil war. "The worst thing was the hunger - there were only raw mushrooms. My children vomited every time I gave them something to eat." The MSF camp has been heavily frequented since the April ceasefire. Every day, 20-30 people arrive there with severely undernourished children. "They are in an extremely bad nutritional condition," tells one nurse. The peace process however is already having a positive effect. At the arms collection centre in Sobo Matthiasch, a Unita fighter hands over his gun and registers. Unita officers and the regular army together enforce the disarmament. "Our absolute priority is disarmament - we discuss and solve any problems ourselves," says one former Unita rebel. But with ½ a million threatened with starvation, peace is only the first hurdle in Angola's uphill struggle.
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