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/ 23 February 2009
Angola must ensure failings during last year’s parliamentary election are not repeated at a presidential vote expected in 2009.
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/ 12 December 2008
Angola approved a -billion spending plan for 2009 despite fears the recent slump in oil prices will increase the country’s budget deficit.
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/ 14 October 2008
Angola’s ruling MPLA will set out an ambitious plan on Wednesday to lift millions out of poverty and spur continued economic growth.
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/ 2 September 2008
Rafael Savimbi, son of late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, sees the country’s first post-civil war elections as a chance for national unity.
For the past 30 years, Jose Vilomba (47) has walked barefoot on one of Africa’s most fertile valleys using his hands and a shovel to plant vegetables.
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/ 27 November 2007
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said he will attend a European Union-Africa summit in December in Lisbon, triggering a boycott of the meeting by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. ”Yes, I’m going,” Mugabe was quoted on Tuesday as telling Portugal’s Lusa news agency in Mozambique.
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/ 8 September 2007
Kate and Gerry McCann, whose daughter’s disappearance has riveted Europe, are shocked to have been declared suspects by Portuguese police, a spokesperson for the family said on Saturday. After questioning on Friday, police named both British parents as suspects in four-year-old Madeleine’s disappearence on May 3.