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/ 6 September 2008
Voting in Angola’s parliamentary election resumed on Saturday for an unscheduled second day.
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/ 6 September 2008
Blessed with natural resources of oil, diamonds, and rich agricultural land, Anglola has the potential to become one of the richest nations worldwide.
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/ 5 September 2008
Angola’s first election in 16 years is a disaster of poor planning and insufficient infrastructure in the capital, says an EU observer.
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/ 5 September 2008
Angolans voted on Friday in their first peacetime elections, with the ruling left-wing MPLA expected to keep a firm grip on the war-ravaged country.
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/ 5 September 2008
Angola’s economy may be booming on the back of high oil prices and strong diamond exports, but unemployment stands at about 65%.
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/ 4 September 2008
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Wednesday promised a government shake-up if his ruling MPLA wins Friday’s landmark elections.
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/ 3 September 2008
About 8,3-million Angolans will go the polls on Friday in the first election since independence in 1975 to be held under peaceful conditions.
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/ 3 September 2008
Driving in Luanda requires nerves of steel, nuts of tungsten and a head like a stubborn mule.
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/ 3 September 2008
Patrons of the upmarket restaurants on Angola’s Ilha de Luanda dine on crayfish and carpaccio, refreshed by the breeze off the lagoon.
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.
Angolan police have detained a group of opposition activists ahead of landmark elections next month.
Authorities in Angola have promised to fight speculation in the Luanda real-estate market, which has boosted house prices as high as -million.
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, almost 40% of Angolans use water from an unsafe source.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is to send a beefed-up observer mission for Zimbabwe’s run-off election next month to ensure "greater transparency", Angola’s Foreign Minister was quoted as saying on Monday. Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been lobbying the 14-nation SADC to send more observers.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Angola on Friday in a bid to improve relations following an arms scandal that provoked tensions between the two countries. Sarkozy was to hold talks with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Friday morning at the presidential palace.
The death toll from the collapse of a police squad headquarters in Angola’s capital this weekend rose to 30 on Tuesday as rescuers scoured the rubble for bodies, state media said. Another 145 people pulled out of the debris are still receiving treatment in several hospitals in Luanda.
Rescuers have found six more bodies buried under a collapsed police building in the Angolan capital, Luanda, bringing the death toll to 21, the head of the civil protection service said on Monday. He said 147 people were rescued from the ruins of the national criminal investigation department building in Luanda.
Angolan rescuers brought out seven more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed police criminal investigation headquarters, bringing the death toll to 15, state media said on Monday. The victims — all women — were found in the women’s detection unit which was the worst hit when the seven-storey building collapsed in the capital Luanda.
Rescuers on Sunday pushed on with efforts to find more survivors from the rubble of the Angolan police headquarters that collapsed in the capital. The disaster is feared to have claimed seven lives. The national police commissioner said he was optimistic that more people would be found alive.
Scores of detainees were injured on Saturday when a six-storey police building collapsed in the Angolan capital Luanda. Angolan police chief Ambrosio de Lemos said the cause of the collapse of the National Criminal Investigation Department building was so far unknown but no ”external factor” was involved.
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/ 12 February 2008
More than 10 000 people have been forced from their homes and two thousand makeshift houses swept away by floods after heavy rain pounded parts of southern Angola. Some of those displaced were being put up in tents at makeshift camps while others were being housed in schools.
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/ 23 January 2008
Angola’s opposition Unita party accused members of the country’s ruling party of vandalising the tomb of Jonas Savimbi, the rebel leader who led a 27-year bush war against the government. Savimbi, who is seen as a freedom fighter by some Angolans but a war criminal by many others, was killed by government troops in 2002.
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/ 20 January 2008
A twin-engine plane slammed into a mountain in rain and fog in Angola’s central highlands, killing at least 11 people, state media reported. Angolan National Radio said there were no survivors among the 11 people on board the Beechcraft-200 when it crashed on Saturday morning.
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/ 27 December 2007
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Thursday that the oil-rich African nation would hold its delayed parliamentary elections on September 5 and 6 next year, the state-run Angop news agency reported. An estimated eight million Angolans are expected to vote in the election. The country has not held a national poll since a disastrous 1992 presidential race.
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/ 18 December 2007
Two actors were shot dead and another three wounded while filming a crime drama in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Monday when police mistook them as armed robbers, their director said. The tragedy happened as a crowd of onlookers were watching a scene being filmed in the crime-ridden suburb of Sambila.
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/ 6 December 2007
As Portugal prepares to host a summit of African and European leaders, the construction in its ex-colony Angola bears testimony to China’s growing influence on the continent. An army of Chinese construction workers is transforming the skyline of Luanda in an alliance which has put the squeeze on European partners.
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/ 26 November 2007
Angola opposition on Monday denounced what it called government ”strategy” to delay legislative elections scheduled for next year. In a statement, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) said that acts of ”intimidation” and ”increased attempts to curtail individual and collective freedoms in Angola” were evidence of the alleged strategy.
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/ 1 November 2007
Angola could hold national elections as early as May next year, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos was quoted as saying on Thursday. ”The president of the republic will likely call the elections for the period between May and August, and possibly September of 2008,” state newspaper Jornal de Angola quoted him as saying at the end of a visit to Mozambique.
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/ 27 October 2007
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said he is determined to attend a Europe-Africa summit in Lisbon next month despite pressure from Britain that he be kept off the invitation list. ”Portugal said they would invite me,” Mugabe said in an interview published by state media in Angola on Friday.
Five children were killed and another seriously injured in an Angolan central rural district when they tried to open a mortar shell left from the civil war, an official said on Tuesday. The children were playing in Dando village, near Nharea in Bie province, when they discovered the 81mm shell.
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/ 26 September 2007
A two-year bridge-building project in Angola has reopened a vital road to a large area of the country’s isolated eastern Moxico province, destroyed during a 27-year civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The main road leading to Lumbula N’guimbo was heavily mined during the war, which ended in 2002.
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/ 4 September 2007
Private investors will inject about -billion into a 15-year project to revamp the crumbling seafront and picturesque bay surrounding Angola’s capital, Luanda, state media reported on Tuesday. New hotels, offices and houses will be built as part of the effort to spruce up an area stretching from the Port of Luanda to the Ilha peninsula.