Due to the rising cost of fuel Zambia has planned to begin importing refined petroleum products from neighbouring Angola.
Many South Africa companies have found it hard to get a foot in Angola’s lucrative door.
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/ 25 November 2011
Not so long ago thousands of Angolans were fleeing for Portugal. Now the tables have turned.
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/ 30 October 2011
The Africa Cup of Nations’ main contenders Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana avoided each other and the likes of Senegal, Morocco and Tunisia in a kind draw.
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/ 28 October 2011
Economic growth and consumer demand have led to an explosion of new private media organisations in post-war Angola.
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/ 21 October 2011
Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos announced this week that his country would go to the polls at the end of 2012.
Protests on the streets of Luanda show that young people are increasingly willing to speak out against the ageing government.
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/ 14 September 2011
At least 30 people — including three Angolan generals — have been killed after a military aircraft crashed at an airport in Huambo, south of Luanda.
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/ 9 September 2011
Twenty-one people have appeared in court in Angola, charged with public order offences, following a rare anti-government demonstration.
Angolan authorities arrested 24 people at an anti-government youth rally, were several protesters, journalists and police were injured, reports say.
Southern African leaders holding a two day regional summit in Luanda have wrapped up their talks ahead of schedule.
Southern African leaders opened a summit in Angola on Wednesday under pressure to address growing regional unrest.
Two children have died in a wave of poisonings in Angolan schools, but police have yet to identify the toxin that has sown panic in the country.
Angolan security forces are waging a campaign of terror — including sexual abuse — on Congolese migrants who cross the border illegally.
One of Angola’s most senior police officers is accused of stealing $3.7-million and then paying a hit man to murder a colleague.
In a field 30km south of Angola’s chaotic capital, a city seems to rise from nothing, a showpiece in government’s drive to build a million homes.
Angola’s long standing ‘unelected’ leader José dos Santos may not stand in next year’s election.
Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it’s a new creature, heralding a research renaissance.
War and chaotic infrastructure planning have left the river-rich country with a dire sanitation system.
There is a concurrence of three substantial photographic projects that delve into the complexities of the Border War in southern Angola.
Angolan authorities on Monday arrested five people, including journalists, ahead of a planned protest against the rule of José Eduardo dos Santos.
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/ 22 February 2011
Oil revenues have made Angola one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa, but the high cost of living makes life difficult for many.
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/ 16 January 2011
An intoxicated boy shuffles along a teeming street in Luanda casually gulping vapours from a plastic bottle that contains petrol.
Once again, China has scored points in Africa. Beijing wants South Africa to become the fifth member of the Bric countries.
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/ 29 December 2010
An Angolan court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 24 years in jail for taking part in a deadly attack on a bus carrying Togo’s football team.
Increased trade and investment ‘will lead to better regional development for all’.
Angola and South Africa signed five bilateral agreements during Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s first state visit to South Africa.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos started his historic first state visit to South Africa aimed at ending decades-long enmities.
An international lobby group has urged the Angolan government to release four activists serving what they call "politically motivated" jail sentences.
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/ 11 November 2010
Unicef gets ready to launch a mass immunisation campaign in the Republic of Congo, after an outbreak of polio claimed 97 lives in under a week.
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/ 11 November 2010
Over 700 women, men and children were raped when Angola expelled thousands of people back to the DRC over the past two
Angola celebrates 35 years of independence after banishing a long chapter of civil war to the history books, but is still divided by huge wealth gaps.