The Angolan Red Cross and the national delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross have spent almost two years helping reunite families separated by 27 years of civil conflict, bringing 836 children back together with parents, aunts, uncles and siblings.
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/ 14 January 2004
The Angolan army has arrested about 700 people, including 334 foreigners, in an operation aimed at curbing illegal diamond trafficking in the central province of Bie, state radio said on Wednesday. Of the foreigners arrested, 234, mainly from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, have been deported.
Leaders from the 14 nations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) again rallied behind Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe on Thursday, after a two-day summit that ended with few concrete decisions.
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.
A Unita spokesman said this week that the movement had ”smashed the government offensive” in southern Angola