Angolan medical doctors have gone on strike to demand better work conditions and the hiring of all their unemployed colleagues.
The work boycott that started on Monday follows a notice served to the government last August.
The head of the doctors’ union, Adriano Manuel, said the strike was 98 percent successful.
Angola currently boasts of just over 6,400 medical doctors for its about 28 million population.
The government said the work boycott was illegal but made no immediate offers to the medics.
The Angolan health sector, like many others, was affected during the devastating civil war that raged on for 27 years.
