WHEN a plunge in oil prices prompted Angola’s government to slash public spending last year, street trader Antonio Simao Baptista had no idea it would leave his rundown suburb overwhelmed by filth and disease.The budget of Africa’s second-largest oil exporter has been cut again this year and is 40% lower than two years ago.Services, including rubbish collection and water sanitation are overlooked by contractors who aren’t being paid or can’t import equipment, contributing to a surge in deadly diseases."Look at the garbage, and also the water we drink is filthy. The water in my home is brown. I was raised in the colonial era and I have never seen this before," says Baptista swatting away flies and mosquitoes swarming overhead.An outbreak of yellow fever has killed 37 people since December while there has been an increase in reported cases of malaria, cholera and chronic diarrhoea, health officials say.The yellow fever outbreak began in Luanda’s vast Viana suburb of 1.6-million people...
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