For almost three years, vehicles have not reached this commune in the municipality of Cuimba, due to a lack of roads, a situation that leads to daily abandonment by residents in search of better living conditions elsewhere in the province of Zaire, in the north of the country.
The local administrator, Manuel Messany, speaking to Rádio Nacional de Angola (RNA), described the phenomenon of daily depopulation, noting that the commune only has around seven thousand inhabitants compared to the previous 18 thousand.
"There were only around seven thousand people left, previously we had 18,000, today we are like this due to the daily difficulties in the Serra de Kanda which are increasing, there are even neighborhoods without inhabitants", said the person in charge.
Messany even urged the provincial government to work to rehabilitate the access roads, believing that only then will the populations return to their area of origin.
The administrator of Cuimba, Isabel Keba, said she was aware of the problem in Serra de Kanda, one of the municipality's four communes, noting that it had been going on for close to three years.
"We know that Serra de Kanda has been isolated for approximately two to three years, with no vehicles going there, but in meetings with the local government the possibility of asphalting that road is being studied," she said, quoted by Rádio Nacional de Angola.
