Angola builds roads to connect with neighbouring states

Angola has borders to the south with Namibia, to the east with Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo and to the north with the Republic of Congo.

And, according to António Resende, the director-general of the Angolan National Roads Institute (INEA), work to rebuild the cross-border roads in the south, north and east of the country was at an advanced stage.

These road links will be in place by 2017, he told the Angolan news agency Angop at the re-opening of the metal bridge over the Luvo River.

The Angolan state newspaper Jornal de Angola reported that the previous bridge was destroyed by excess cargo on a truck loaded with a large crane.

Resende was also quoted by the press as saying that plans were underway to build a concrete bridge across the river which separates Angola and the Lower Congo region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The bridge will be 37.6 metres long and have one 3.5m lane running in each direction.

The latest news is that a road in the Cunene area, linking this region to neighbouring Namibia, is in its final stages of construction.

Meanwhile work is underway in Zaire province to rebuild the road to the Lower Congo (DRC).

Resende also said that the road corridors in the provinces of Uíge, Malange, Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul, and in Lobito (Benguela) to Luau (Moxico), on the border with Zambia, are due to be rebuilt as part of the National Development Plan.