Inside Africa

In 2026, Luanda’s suburbs still see water trucks queue at dawn. In Huambo and Moxico, women walk kilometers with jerry cans. Yet in Talatona and parts of Benguela, taps now run daily. Angola’s government has spent billions of dollars since 2017 to change this story. New dams, treatment plants and rural boreholes are part of a push to meet SDG 6: clean water for all by 2030. The progress is real, but so are the gaps: broken pipes, unpaid bills, climate droughts, and millions still without safe water. This is how far Angola has come, how well services work today, and what must happen next.