Kilamba new town, Angola
t was supposed to be a state-of-the-art city for 500,000 - but eerie footage shows how a Chinese-built urbanisation is at risk of becoming Africa's first 'ghost town'. Constructed on the outskirts of Angola's capital city Luanda, Nova Cidade de Kilamba has 750 eight-storey blocks of flats, a dozen schools and more than 100 shop units. But, crucially, it has few residents, and many of the nearby slum-dwellers cannot afford the £75,000 price-tag to move in. Though the price tag is low compared to property in the capital there is little work and it is 18 miles (30kms) from the capital. With Angola's congested roads this can take an hour. Kilamba has been built by the state-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) in under three years at a reported cost of $ (£). Spanning 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres), the development is the largest of several new "satellite cities" being constructed by Chinese firms around Angola, and it is believed to be one of the largest new-build projects on the continent.
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Location: Kilamba, Angola
Photo credit: © Joanna Kearney / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: angola, apartment, blocks, built, chinese, kilamba, town
