Angola on Wednesday celebrates five years of peace after a 27-year civil war as one of Africa’s fastest growing economies, thanks to an oil boom which has however done little to raise living standards. The signing of an accord on April 4 2002, between the government and Unita rebels drew the line under a conflict that left half a million people dead.
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/ 21 December 2006
A cross-party committee chaired by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos proposed that legislative elections take place in Angola in 2008 and a presidential vote in 2009, officials said on Thursday. Both elections had been expected to be held next year but the Council of the Republic unanimously agreed on a new timeframe at a meeting on Wednesday night, according to a statement.
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/ 20 December 2006
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Wednesday it would be "difficult" to go ahead next year with plans to hold the country’s first general election since the end of its long-running civil war. Dos Santos told a meeting of politicians and civil-society members that he expected the electoral registration process to be completed by June next year.
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/ 18 December 2006
Angola, whose once-buoyant agriculture sector was devastated by a 27-year civil war, is looking to revive farming production with a major programme of government spending and private investment. About 200 000 jobs should be created, Prime Minister Fernando Dias dos Santos told MPs last week as he unveiled the government’s 2007/08 economic programme.
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/ 15 November 2006
Angola began registering voters for the first elections since a 30-year civil war on Wednesday as the opposition accused the government of preventing its representatives from monitoring the process. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has still to declare whether he will contest next year’s poll, was among the first to register his name.
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/ 30 October 2003
Angola’s central province of Huambo used to be the country’s breadbasket, but 18 months after the end of the country’s 27-year civil war the majority of its one million people still depend on foreign aid.
The child moaning as he lies on a bit of dirty cloth on the hospital floor has more bone than flesh. He has no family, but his fate is shared by thousands of children, victims of the famine and poverty crippling Angola.