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/ 10 January 2010
Togo’s national team will return home and not compete in Africa’s biggest soccer tournament, captain Emmanuel Adebayor said on Sunday.
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/ 10 January 2010
Africa’s biggest soccer tournament starts in Angola on Sunday, overshadowed by an ambush by separatist rebels on the Togo team bus.
The gun attack on Togo’s team bus in Angola before the start of the African Nations Cup will have no impact on the Soccer World Cup in South Africa.
African football leaders are to meet Angolan officials on Saturday to seek assurances on the security of players after an attack on the Togo team bus.
Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Togo’s national soccer squad to the top African tournament in Angola on Friday.
Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o will be aiming to leave impressions as gargantuan as the craters that pockmark the streets of the capital, Luanda.
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/ 27 December 2009
The arrival of the continent’s premier football tournament is a vote of confidence in a nation once seen as beyond hope.
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/ 23 December 2009
Messages of ”Viva Angola” and ”Proud to be Angolan” in Luanda mark the war-scarred Southern African nation’s rising international presence.
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/ 21 December 2009
Opec members, gathered in poverty-stricken Angola on Monday, said they would hold output firm amid comfortably high prices.
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/ 21 December 2009
The oil price of Opec stood nearly unchanged at ,78 at the end of last week, the cartel said on Monday, ahead of its conference in Angola.
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/ 15 December 2009
With weeks to go until the African Nations Cup kicks off in Angola, roads, airports and stadiums are unfinished and not one ticket has gone on sale.
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/ 23 November 2009
Angola’s foreign exchange reserves fell for the first time in three months to ,1-billion, the central bank said on Monday.
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/ 13 November 2009
Armed Angolan gangs are targeting Chinese workers in ”mafia-style” attacks, a construction boss said on Friday, creating a climate of fear.
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/ 4 November 2009
Angola kicked off a public debate on Wednesday about a new Constitution that is likely to continue President José Eduardo dos Santos’s grip on power.
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/ 28 October 2009
Angola on Wednesday called the conviction of the son of the late Francois Mitterrand over illegal arms sales to the African nation unjust.
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/ 23 October 2009
French oil major Total has made an offshore oil discovery in Angola, the company said on Friday.
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/ 14 October 2009
Congolese on Wednesday told of being subjected to brutal rapes and lootings when they were thrown out by Luanda.
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/ 29 September 2009
Rumours that Angola is not ready to host the 2010 Cup of Nations are ”absolutely rubbish”, a senior African Football Confederation official has said.
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/ 21 September 2009
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos marked 30 years in power on Monday, with no public celebrations or even a murmur in state media about the milestone.
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/ 14 September 2009
Angola is evicting whole communities to meet the
president’s promise to build a million new homes
by 2012, writes Niren Tolsi
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/ 7 September 2009
Jacob Zuma’s visit to Angola did much to warm relations between the two countries, but some things were left unsaid.
On a recent visit to Luanda Niren Tolsi discovers a city battling between dysfunction and renewal
SA President Jacob Zuma made an emotional pilgrimage on Friday to a former anti-apartheid guerrilla camp in Angola.
South Africa is drumming up business deals in Angola despite a record of recent abuses there.
President Jacob Zuma signed on Thursday an oil agreement with his Angolan counterpart during a visit aimed at strengthening economic ties.
Angola’s president hailed a visit by Jacob Zuma on Thursday as the start of a new era to improve the once strained relationship between the countries.
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday called for strengthening economic ties with Angola, as he led a major business delegation to Luanda.
Agreements driving a deeper partnership between SA and Angola will be concluded by Wednesday afternoon, said minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
Angola’s central bank is not planning to devalue the kwanza and will resist speculative attempts to weaken the currency, the bank said on Tuesday.
SA President Jacob Zuma travels to Angola in a bid to strengthen ties between the continent’s biggest economy and one of its top oil producers.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will seek on a visit to Angola on Sunday to boost opportunities for US business in the oil producer.
Piles of smashed concrete bricks and crumpled pieces of metal is all that remains of what was home to 3 000 Angolan families.