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Cabinda First visited by the portuguese in the late XV century, Cabinda was composed of 3 Kingdoms : Loango, Kakongo and N'Goyo, at the North of the Congo river, and Ndongo, at the South of the Congo river. Cabinda became a Portuguese Protectorate with the signing of the Treaty of Simulambuco in 1885, and became known as the Portuguese Congo from the earliest 1900 onward. The Cabindansbase their independence claim on the fact that Cabinda was never part of angola and on the Treaty of Simulambuco of 1885 with the portuguese as a portuguese protectorate state. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/cabinda.htm   (1798 words)

MAR | Data | Chronology for Cabinda in Angola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Congolese president Henri Lopes concurred stating "Cabinda exists as a reality and is historically and geographically different from Angola." Gabon, Uganda, and Central African Republic had all expressed support for or recognition of FLEC, though the majority of OAU members firmly opposed the Cabindan separatists on the grounds that it would encourage separatists elsewhere. The people of Cabinda province continue to be involved in a separate struggle against the MPLA government for the independence of Cabinda. Cabinda rebels seem to tolerate UNITA rebels when they are useful in their struggle against the government, but FLEC wants UNITA leaders as their government no more than it wants the MPLA government in its territory. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=54003   (3249 words)

Cabinda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Cabinda is an Angolan province and exclave, separated from the rest of the country by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which bounds the province on the south and the east. Cabinda is bounded on the north by the Republic of the Congo, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. The province was once physically attached to the rest of Angola, but in 1885, the Conference of Berlin extended the Congo Free State's territory along the Congo River to the river's mouth at the sea, and Cabinda was isolated. www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Cabinda.htm   (390 words)

Cabinda    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Cabinda is a small territory of 7,283 square kilometers in west central Africa with a population of about 300,000. Cabinda was first recognised as a political entity by the 1885 Treaty of Simulambuco, signed between local traditional leaders and the Portuguese Crown. Cabinda was initially administered separately from Angola, as a protectorate rather than as a colony. www.unpo.org /member.php?arg=13   (1173 words)

[No title] In the Cabinda Province, the Bakongo speak Kikongo and the Mayombe speak a closely related dialect of Kikongo. The Cabinda people may be able to negotiate for more autonomy from Luanda and for a larger share of the wealth that results from the exploitation of the resources in their region. Cabinda does not have extensive external support for their self-determination bid, so it would be difficult to engage in a protracted civil war that would eventually wear down Luanda. www.chez.com /cabinda/history2.htm   (2930 words)

Angola: Cabinda The Portuguese explorers that settled Angola in 1575 settled Cabinda in 1885. The situation in Cabinda consists of both Angolan government military forces waging a war with the guerillas and the oil corporations directly impacting the environment and people of Cabinda. Further attempts at the recognition of Cabinda as an independent entity have failed, the last major attempt in 1975 by Mobutu Sese Seko in the OAU failing because of the precedents it posed to separatist movements within the member nations. www.american.edu /TED/ice/cabinda.htm   (1891 words)

AEGiS-IRIN: ANGOLA: Cabinda slowly waking up to HIV/AIDS Although Cabinda produces 60 percent of Angola's oil revenues, the province, saddled with one of the highest HIV rates in the country, has been slow to respond to the epidemic. The presence of new, freshly painted health facilities, like Cabinda's double-storey hospital and the newly opened maternity centre on the outskirts of town, suggest on the face of it that the province was better equipped to handle the epidemic. Cabinda's Muanza Juvenile - operated by the reproductive health NGO, ABC Gremio - is always buzzing with activity and provides English and computer lessons, as well as information on HIV/AIDS and sexual health. www.aegis.com /news/IRIN/2004/IR0410A1.html   (1286 words)

U.S. TDA: Current Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The Government of the Province of Cabinda is committing $187,425 toward the cost of the study. The Province of Cabinda is a northern, isolated enclave of the Republic of Angola -- located on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Previously, TDA provided $300,000 to the Cabinda Province to partially fund a mobile telephony feasibility study and $322,150 to ENANA -- the Angolan civil aviation authorities -- to fund a study assessing the upgrade of Luanda's 4th of February International Airport. www.tda.gov /trade/press/Sep28_01.html   (346 words)

WorldNetDaily: Is Angolan war really over? Cabinda is separated from the body of Angola by a tiny strip of the Congo. Aided by strongly anti-Communist Catholic missionaries, the people of Cabinda, who number around 100,000, are telling the transnational elites that they seek to control their own destiny. The son of a snake remains a snake." Fighting under the FLEC, or Liberation Front for the Cabinda Enclave, the Cabinda rebels, operating under the canopy of a thick jungle in the center of their region, have wreaked more than a bit of havoc with Western oil interests. www.wnd.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29597   (1249 words)

Web Special on Cabinda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The deputy governor of Cabinda Province, João Santos de Carvalho Mesquita, told IRIN: "The provincial government is aware of these reports and the accusations made against the army, but I must point out that these are isolated incidents and not institutionalised behaviour. Cabinda is separated from the rest of Angola by a sliver of the DRC. Cabinda has no port facilities and consumer goods are flown from the capital, Luanda, or trucked in from neighbouring countries. www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=37207   (2418 words)

Global Insight // Our Perspective Despite this agreement, fighting—with dire humanitarian consequences—still rages on in the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda province. For the Angolan government, and perhaps most Angolans outside Cabinda, the province is an integral part of the country—and independence, therefore, not an option. Second, and probably more important, is the fact that Cabinda currently accounts for more than 60% of the country’s oil production and is a crucial factor in the government’s future revenue base, especially at a time when the Angolan economy is geared for social and infrastructural recovery. www.globalinsight.com /Perspective/PerspectiveDetail555.htm   (451 words)

Angola Provinces Angola was an overseas province of Portugal until its independence on 1975-11-11. Cabinda is an enclave, separated from the rest of Angola by part of Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Angola is divided into five districts: four on the coast, the fifth, Lunda, wholly inland, being the N.E. part of the province. www.statoids.com /uao.html   (475 words)

President denies ongoing unrest in Cabinda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Critics have noted that, given Cabinda's population of about 250,000, compared to an estimated 12 million Angolans, it was unlikely that the rest of the country would allow the lucrative province to become independent. Cabinda was administered separately from the rest of Angola during Portuguese colonial times, but handed over to the Angola by Lisbon on independence in 1975. The separatists argue that since Cabinda was administered separately, it should have become a separate state. www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=41087   (666 words)

News: September 2004 CABINDA : The National Electricity Firm (ENE) in Cabinda province and a local inspection firm (ATELCAB) will sign today a cooperation agreementfor for the control of electricticity firms and the system of collecting money from consumers. Chama district in the Eastern Province of Zambia, is to be connected to the Malawian electricity grid in December, after ESCOM extends its power line to the Zambian border. He also said although Kasempa in the North Western Province had been connected to the national grid, there were plans to expand the voltage from 33 KV to 66 KV so that electricity supply could be extended to far-flung areas. www.queensu.ca /msp/pages/In_The_News/2004/September/Ang-Moz.htm   (3349 words)

AfricaFiles | The ongoing conflict in Cabinda The ongoing conflict in the province of Cabinda is a source of concern as efforts to continue to promote lasting and genuine peace and reconciliation in all the provinces of Angola. Cabinda’s paramount chief co-ordinator, Soba Kongo, (elected by the traditional authorities) invited 20 colleagues from all over the province to meet the delegation at his residence in Simulambuco. The cost of living is high: Since Cabinda has no working port, goods have to be flown from Luanda, or transported overland from the nearby Democratic Republic of Congo or the Republic of Congo, necessitating the payment of taxes or bribes when the goods cross the border. www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=736   (2051 words)

Angola News Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Joao Lourenco was commenting on a recent conference held in Cabinda sponsored by local and foreign Non-Governmental Organisations, that focused on whether that part of the national territory should actually be granted self-determination. The conference that was attended by foreigners, including Portuguese citizens, went under the motto "A Common View on Cabinda" and defended self-determination for the Cabinda province. João Lourenço said that before talks on a definite status for Cabinda are not held, the Government is seeking to stabilise Cabinda militarily and resolve the main social problems concerning the local population. www.angola.org /news/NewsDetail.cfm?NID=13873   (413 words)

Angola: Between War and Peace in Cabinda (A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper): Summary The armed conflict in Angola’s Cabinda province, an oil-rich enclave separated from the rest of the country by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is one of the world’s longest but least reported armed conflicts. During a mission to Cabinda in August 2004, Human Rights Watch found that although the human rights situation in Cabinda had improved since mid-2003 due to a decrease in military operations, the FAA continued to commit violations against civilians with almost complete impunity. The deployment of some 30,000 FAA troops in close proximity to the civilian population in Cabinda and the prevailing sense of impunity have fostered a climate in which human rights violations, from murder to early forced marriages, remain common. www.hrw.org /backgrounder/africa/angola/2004/1204/1.htm   (489 words)

ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Web Special on Cabinda CABINDA, 14 October (IRIN) - Successive attempts over the past 27 years to end a secessionist conflict in Angola's Cabinda enclave are yet to bear fruit. This webspecial [http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/cabinda/default.asp] examines the economic and social impact of the protracted struggle on the people of Cabinda, arguments for secession, and attempts to anticipate the possible obstacles peace negotiators and humanitarian actors will face in the future. One local leader told IRIN: "It is no secret that the majority of Cabinda people support the FLEC's call for self-determination, but it seemed that that during the October raids [government] soldiers were targeting civilians instead of soldiers, because of this tacit support". www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/67072480001558c885256dbf00677d57   (2485 words)

ANGOLA NATIONAL PRIVATE INVESTMENT AGENCY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Luanda, 06/02 - An economic and social development plan for Angola`s northern Cabinda province was approved today by the Standing Commission of the Cabinet Council, which met at the Presidential Palace, in Luanda, under the chairmanship of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Speaking to journalists, the provincial governor of oil-rich Cabinda province, Anibal Rocha(photo), said that the plan "constitutes a supporting and framing instruments of the local governmental action, of medium and long term, for a six-year time. Far northern Cabinda province, with a surface of 7,280 square kilometers, has a population estimated at 170,000 inhabitants. www.iie-angola-us.org /full_headlines.php?id=106   (226 words)

International Spotlight: Angola Cabinda's younger generation, however, prefers to call themselves and their language Ibinda. Today, only one language is spoken in Cabinda – Ibinda – and it has strong links with the Kikongo language, which was widely spoken throughout the region when it was part of the Kongo Kingdom. The borders between Cabinda and the two Congos are very fuzzy, and the local populations do not really take much notice of them. washingtonpost.com /wp-adv/specialsales/spotlight/angola/article14.html   (636 words)

Angola In Cabinda province, reports of civilians killed in fighting were increasing at year's end (see Section 1.g.). In one case, an inmate detained in Uige province was transported to Luanda and held for 2 years waiting to be returned to Uige to stand trial. The provinces most affected were Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul, Malange, Bie, and Moxico, although UNITA also mounted raids near the coast during the last months of the war. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18167.htm   (14075 words)

Angola's Embassy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The mainstay of the province’s income is oil and timber. Cabinda has an equatorial climate and the average temperature is 25°C. How to get there Sal, TAAG and Air Gemini, among other companies, fly to Cabinda, whose airport has the second largest runway in Angola, allowing large as well as small planes to land there. www.angolaemb.se /angola/provinces/cabinda.htm   (119 words)

Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) 28 April 1995: In Cabinda province there were reports of major movements by government troops, including offensive maneuvers and air space violations. 5 February 1997: Antonio Bento- Bemde was elected the new leader of the Cabinda Enclave Liberation Front-Renewal separatist movement fighting for the independence of Cabinda from Angola. The fighting is centred in an area about 70 km from the city of Cabinda but has spread to the capital. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/angcabinchro.htm   (3510 words)

Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - ChevronTexaco to operate in Cabinda province beyond 2010   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) 06-10-03 The American oil company ChevronTexaco, may keep operating in the northern Cabinda province beyond the year 2010, said to Angop, the company's director for operations and production on the Blocks 0, 14 and 2, Daniel Rocha. Speaking about the end of the exploration contract in 2010, Daniel Rocha said that the company has excellent relations with the Angolan government, so, they think it will be possible to continue the explorations in Cabinda, beyond that period. The director said that ChevronTexaco and associates have followed the regulations outlined by Sonangol and the Angolan State, concerning the protection and preservation of the ecosystem. www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cna34410.htm   (220 words)

BBC NEWS | Africa | Cabinda: Angola's forgotten war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) By the side of the main road running through Angola's northern province of Cabinda about 500 people are camped out in the open. While the government has made peace with Unita rebels in the rest of Angola, in Cabinda it faces a different adversary - the various factions of the Front of the Liberation of the Cabinda enclave (Flec). But with national and international attention focussed on the moves for peace in the rest of Angola, nobody outside Cabinda appears to be paying much attention to the fact that there is still a war going on in Angola's northernmost province. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/2339647.stm   (605 words)

[No title] Largely ignored in the hype that surrounded the end of war between the government and UNITA, the forgotten war (to borrow the title of a well-known volume on Angola) in the Angolan province of Cabinda saw some of its worst fighting during the country’s “year of peace”. We are in a position to state that there have been significant changes in Cabinda’s military situation as a result of operations carried out by our armed forces. Whatever their strengths, however, Cabinda’s armed secessionist movements, with an estimated combined number of troops of no more than 2,000, were powerless in the face of the FAA’s large-scale offensive. www.idpproject.org /Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/D478A78AC1AAC3DFC1256E550031E95B?OpenDocument   (1338 words)

Angolan Human Rights The Government has not brought any significant numbers of children into the armed forces since the 1996-97 demobilization campaign; however, some children reportedly continued to be recruited as a result of the absence of civil registration and the inability to prove dates of birth. In January unknown gunmen killed Father Albino Saluaco, a Catholic parish priest, and two catechists in a town in the province of Huambo that was under UNITA military occupation (see Section 2.c.). In January unknown gunmen killed Father Albino Saluaco, a Catholic parish priest, and two catechists in a town in the province of Huambo that was under UNITA military occupation. www.nationbynation.com /Angola/Human.html   (19263 words)

United Nations - OCHA IRIN | Web Special | Cabinda Successive attempts over the past 27 years to end a secessionist conflict in Angola's Cabinda enclave are yet to bear fruit. Vice Governor of Cabinda Province, João Santos de Carvalho Mesquita IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. www.irinnews.org /webspecials/cabinda   (792 words)

AfricaFiles | Web Special on Cabinda This will take some time." According to the report, villages in the interior, such as Makonkongolo and Chimuanda, had been targeted for "re-population movements", with families coming from the south of Angola to the enclave to be resettled there. Central to the argument for self-determination among separatist factions is that, unlike mainland Angola, Cabinda was never a Portuguese colony - but a protectorate. We shouldn't have to live like this." Cabinda has no port facilities and consumer goods are flown from the capital, Luanda, or trucked in from neighbouring countries. www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=3082   (2348 words)

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