ANGOLA’S government on Wednesday said it is in favor of resumption of direct negotiations with separatists in Cabinda, an oil-rich enclave to the north of mainland Angola. “The government has always been in favor of negotiations, and one day we will resume dialogue,” Cabinda Governor Amaro Taty said over the independent Catholic radio station Ecclesia. A ceasefire agreement was signed between one faction of the Cabinda Enclave Liberation Front, FLEC-Renewed, in September 1996 but negotiations on the future of the enclave failed a few months later. The main armed groups making up FLEC are fighting for independence, while a minority wants broad autonomy for the enclave, which is wedged between the two Congos and produces most of Angola’s oil.