Country ... Angola
Presidential elections comming this August

Good times fail to help ordinary Angolans ... Poverty widespread amid signs of prosperity in a rapidly expanding capital, in the run-up to elections.

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Peter Burgess

Good times fail to help ordinary Angolans Poverty widespread amid signs of prosperity in a rapidly expanding capital, in the run-up to elections.

inShare EmailPrintShareFeedback Angolans will elect a new government on Friday.

Their country is now the third largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa and the second biggest oil exporter.

But rapid economic growth has not benefited everyone, as Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reports from Luanda.

Source: Al Jazeera