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‘Between risk and despair’: Cyclical drought hurts pregnant women in Angola

Pregnant patients receiving food and medical assistance while waiting to give birth at Casa de Espera in Cunene, Angola [Israel Campos/Al Jazeera]

Cunene, Angola – Two days after delivering her sixth child this August at Casa de Espera, a public health facility in Cunene, southern Angola, Victoria Luis was still so anxious that she couldn’t sit still or sleep properly.

The delivery had gone well. But the 32-year-old farmer, who walked 30km (19 miles) from her village of Tshiketiengue which has no hospital, could not wait to go back home to her five other children – the youngest only two years old.

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