Angola: Competition for resources brings rising political tension

Recent tensions between Angola's ruling MPLA party supporters and members of the opposition, UNITA, were more about competition for resources than political differences, a senior analyst said on Tuesday. Martinho Chachiua, Angola programme officer at the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa, told IRIN that while the number of reports of violence between the country's two main parties had increased in recent months, the conflict centred around access to limited resources, such as water and fertile land.