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Angola TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
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Figure 10. Transportation System, 1988
Roads
The Portuguese left Angola with a relatively
well-developed
road network that totaled about 70,000 kilometers, 8,000
of which
were paved. Since 1975, however, many bridges have been
blown up,
many vehicles have been destroyed, and many roads have
been subject
to attack by UNITA guerrillas, necessitating military
convoys for
road transportation. In the late 1980s, roads and
railroads were
still exposed to sabotage and ambush. Rural-urban trade
and supply
bottlenecks limited most inland industries, and transport
and
communications services suffered from labor shortages. The
highest
priority has been given to repairing the bridges linking
the
provincial capitals.
Data as of February 1989
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