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Carlos Diogo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carlos Diogo (born July 18, 1983 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan football player, who currently plays for Real Madrid in La Liga. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlos_Diogo   (106 words)

List of Portuguese people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Diogo Dias ( 15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands, of the African coast and the Indian Ocean, discovered Madagascar) Diogo Silves ( 15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands) Diogo Freitas do Amaral (former president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, current Minister of Foreign Affairs) en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Portuguese_people   (106 words)

Heinrich der Seefahrer - Wikipedia Diogo de Silves zugeschrieben, der wahrscheinlich auf der Rückreise von einer Erkundungsfahrt in den Atlantik auf der Insel de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heinrich_der_Seefahrer   (106 words)

Chronology Antão Gonçalves, Garçia Homem, Diogo Afonso to Cape Blanco and Arguim. Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, on foray into Red Sea, drops off the embassy of Rodrigo de Lima at Massawa, whence it establishes contact with "Prester John", the Ethiopian emperor Lebna Dengal. Antão Gonçalves, Diogo Afonso, and Gomes Pires on trade and raid to Rio do Ouro. www.balagan.org.uk /war/1492/chronology.htm   (106 words)

novidades She is represented at Diogo Goncalves Museum of Portimão and at private collections in Portugal and abroad. Born in 1937 of the Silves municipality in Portugal, and later on she fixed herself at Portimão. She was member of the jury at international contests of photography of the Silves Racal Club in 1976,1977 and 1979. minasustelo.tripod.com /biografia_e.html   (106 words)

Algarve: Propriedades em Albufeira - Properties in Albufeira. Portugal Silves owes its existence to the navigability of the Arade river and to its strategic position atop a hill that dominates a broad swathe of countryside. Silves played a role in the first phase of the discoveries, the daring voyages of exploration inspired and orchestrated by Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), who established the Algarve as a centre of maritime know-how. Silves does however retain much of its former charm in the streets of the old “almedina”, which are still laid out as they were in medieval times. www.portal-algarve.net /algarve/silves-dados_historicos_e_turisticos_em_ingles.htm   (106 words)

Mozambique News Agency - AIM Reports Diogo is from the province of Tete, and did her primary education at the Dona Maria school in Tete city until 1970. Diogo took her masters degree in finance economics by correspondence course from the University of London, concluding in 1992. Diogo was only 17 when the country won its independence in 1975 - and took no part in the armed struggle for independence waged by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo). www.poptel.org.uk /mozambique-news/newsletter/aim270.html   (3408 words)

Diogo Wants Concrete Results On Information Technologies / News - Niassa Web Portal Diogo said that the world needs an information society that is inclusive, and where everyone may create, receive, share, and use information and knowledge for their economic, social, cultural, and political development, thus reducing the gap between the developed and the developing world. Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo said in Tunis on Wednesday, at the opening of the World Summit on the Information Society, that the meeting and its participants should commit themselves seriously to helping developing countries, such as Mozambique, to have more access to the information necessary for their development. Diogo stressed that when it approved a computerisation policy in 2000, the Mozambican government allowed the country to advance rapidly in expanding internet access. www.niassa.net /news/diogo_wants_concrete_results_on_information_technologies   (577 words)

Luisa Diogo Sworn Into Office for nine months - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM Diogo noted that, including her, there are only three female prime ministers in Africa, and that throughout the world it is rare to find a woman holding this position. For her part, Diogo said she was proud of the trust that the head of state had placed in her, but recognised that she would now be facing many new challenges. Chissano said that he had chosen Diogo for the job, because she had already displayed competence and a capacity of coordination in the succession of posts she has held since 1980 in the finance ministry. www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20040314T230000-0500_57120_OBS_LUISA_DIOGO_SWORN_INTO_OFFICE_FOR_NINE_MONTHS.asp   (557 words)

Bartholomew Dias Dias sailed for some days in False Bay and it is very likely that he saw Table Mountain from here, as the side of the mountain is clearly seen fro this position. Dias gained experience in trading at Mina and brought back with him a cargo of gold and slaves, which were sold to provide finances for further expeditions. Nevertheless, the voyage of Dias was fraught with consequences, for at the time the search for a passage to the Indies was a move in the great struggle between the Moslem world and Christendom. www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/dias-b.htm   (557 words)

Mrs. Christopher Columbus If we go to the Monizes of Silves, we find a Diogo Martins Moniz, alcaide-mor (a kind of military governor) of Silves in the mid-1400s, and brother of Vasco Martins Moniz, who settled in the Madeira at that time and died in Portugal in 1510. Diogo de Teine had sailed right across the Gulf Stream and come out where the cold Newfoundland current runs down from the north. 1455/60, who married Columbus in 1480 and bore him a son, Don Diogo Colombo. www.moniz.org /Articles/Homeland/mrs.htm   (557 words)

Portuguese History - Virtual School Diogo Cão is placing a stone monument in the mouth of Zaire river in 1482, replacing the first one that disappeared because was used as a target in exercises from British navy artillery. The support of the church was unquestionable - the crusaders (conquest of Lisbon and Silves) and the religious and military orders gave a big help to the birth of several kingdoms by their endless effort of conquest and settlement. The known maps showed that that was impossible to accomplish, for in those maps the African coast was straight down until the south pole without any access to Indian ocean, however the Portuguese navigators and merchants experience indicated that it might be possible for them to connect the Atlantic ocean to the Indian ocean. vs.eun.org /eun.org2/eun/en/vs-history/content.cfm?lang=en&ov=4707   (557 words)

Santa Maria Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The discoverer of the island was Diogo Silves before returning for his journey to Madeira in 1427. Gonçalo Velho brought families and cattle to the island. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Maria_Island   (557 words)

DIOGO "DIOGO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter". "DIOGO" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/DIOGO   (425 words)

IOL: Mozambique's Diogo sworn in as new PM Diogo is married to one of the country's most prominent lawyers, Albano Silva, and they have three children. Diogo still regards that as far too much, and is committed to further negotiations with creditors to obtain greater relief. Diogo and Tomas Salomao (the finance minister from 1994 to 1999) dealt with chronic inefficiency and corruption in the customs services by farming out the management of customs to a British concern, the Crown Agents. www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=84&art_id=qw1077443643261S530&set_id=1   (609 words)

Direct aid model can be replicated-Mozambique PM - Boston.com - Africa - News Diogo's comments come weeks ahead of the annual summit of the Group of Eight most industrialized countries in Scotland, where they will debate a plan by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to increase aid and cancel or sharply cut debt owed by African countries to help spur their economies. Diogo urged the U.S. and the EU to show solidarity with Africa on trade, by allowing a free flow of African goods while tackling contentious issues like subsidies in their own turf. Diogo urged other African countries to stay off commercial loans in financing their budgets, saying it was too expensive. www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/05/25/direct_aid_model_can_be_replicated_mozambique_pm?mode=PF   (612 words)

Luisa Diogo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Luisa Dias Diogo (born April 11, 1958) has been Prime Minister of Mozambique since February 2004. She replaced Pascoal Mocumbi, who had been Prime Minister for the previous nine years. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luisa_Diogo   (143 words)

Star - Chissano appoints first woman prime minister Diogo is the country's finance minister, a post she will continue to hold in addition to her new job as prime minister. Diogo used to work for the World Bank, as a programme officer in its Maputo office, in the early 1990s - an experience that has proved valuable over the past decade, when she has been on the other side of the table negotiating with World Bank and IMF delegations. Luisa Diogo was appointed by President Joaquim Chissano yesterday to replace Pascoal Mocumbi, who is leaving the government to take up a post at a new international health organisation. www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=351963   (383 words)

The Banker: Finance Minister Africa & Middle East Ms Diogo is at the vanguard of the government’s efforts to alleviate poverty, which is a daunting task in a country that is only 11 years past a devastating 16-year-long civil war and where as much as 70% of the population live in absolute poverty. Ms Diogo is central to the reform process that is crucial to tackling poverty and stimulating growth. Late last year, Luisa Diogo, Mozambique’s minister of planning and finance, and government colleagues met with donors in Paris to discuss aid requirements for 2004. www.thebanker.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/1105/Finance_Minister_Africa___Middle_East.html   (496 words)

The Namibian Moz gears for economic recovery after floods Diogo said in an interview she was optimistic about the country's economic recovery from devastating floods earlier this year, saying work to rehabilitate roads, bridges and railways destroyed by the floods was speeding up after initial delays. Diogo however said the country's efforts to plough more money into education and health as well as roads, bridges and railways continued to be hamstrung by the country's debts, which she said remained high despite having US$4,3 billion of its debt being written off. Diogo said with some of the US$480 million pledged by donors in April for post-flood reconstruction starting to flow in, efforts to rebuild homes and shattered infrast$ructure had picked up, with 90 per cent of the people displaced now resettled. www.namibian.com.na /Netstories/2000/August/Marketplace/009F511454.html   (406 words)

INTERVIEW WITH Honorable Luisa Dias Diogo Luísa Dias Diogo was born on the 11th of April of 1958, in the district of Mágoè, part of the central province of Tete. Luísa Dias Diogo integrated the University "Eduardo Mondlane" in Maputo where she did a Bachelors in Economics in 1983. From 1993 to 1994, Luísa Dias Diogo was program officer at the World Bank office in Maputo, having substituted several times the World Bank's representative here in the country. www.winne.com /topinterviews/diogo.html   (2022 words)

SADOCC - News - Fewer living in poverty, says Prime Minister Diogo also noticed that the number of primary school pupils whose school is less than an hour's walking distance away had risen from 74.9 to 91.7 per cent between 1999 and 2003. Answering questions from deputies, Diogo said that these statistics, plus those from a recent demography and health survey, also undertaken by the INE (but the results from which are not yet publicly available), "show that we are on the right path". The "fundamental instrument" for poverty reduction is education, said Diogo, and so "investment in education accounts for about 20 per cent of total public expenditure, and with the growth in overall public spending, the real value of spending on education has been increasing". www.sadocc.at /news/2004-110.shtml   (653 words)

Corporate and Chancery Group : Trust Management Company Ten years later, Diogo Dias participated in the historically famous, and important, voyage of 1497-1498 around the Cape and on to India. In 1500, Diogo Dias took part in another expedition destined for India; an expedition organised by the Portuguese king, Pedro Alvares Cabral. Dias returned to Portugal by way of Madagascar, Mozambique, and the Cape Verde Islands (where he met up again with the remaining members of original Indian expedition from which he had been parted during the July, 1500 storm off the Cape of Good Hope). www.chancerygroup.net /past.htm   (653 words)

Diogo Diogo Mainardi Diogo Mainardi (born Brazilian writer and articulist. Luisa Diogo Luisa Dias Diogo (born Pascoal Mocumbi, who had been Prime Minister for the past nine years. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/diogo.html   (653 words)

Welcome to Crown Agents - Development assistance Dra.Luisa Dias Diogo addresses her audience of finance ministers and central bank governors at a lunch held to mark the 170th anniversary of the founding of Crown Agents. Diogo concluded by emphasising the importance of the programme’s early and intensive capacity building and human resource development component that has produced a new cadre of young, energetic and competent staff and managers. Luisa Dias Diogo, Mozambique’s Minister of Planning and Finance, delivered a clear message about the benefits and challenges of fiscal reform in her country. www.crownagents.com /outlookjan04?step=4&pid=1063   (653 words)

INTERVIEW WITH Honorable Luisa Dias Diogo Luísa Dias Diogo was born on the 11th of April of 1958, in the district of Mágoè, part of the central province of Tete. Luísa Dias Diogo integrated the University "Eduardo Mondlane" in Maputo where she did a Bachelors in Economics in 1983. From 1993 to 1994, Luísa Dias Diogo was program officer at the World Bank office in Maputo, having substituted several times the World Bank's representative here in the country. www.winne.com /topinterviews/diogo.html   (653 words)

Joseph Kenny OP: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN TROPICAL AFRICA, Chapter 2 Diogo Gomes, a Portuguese priest born in Congo and serving as King Diogo’s confessor and ambassador to Portugal, that the Bishop was arrogant and possibly writing bad reports about King Diogo to Portugal. Diogo I received the successor of Bishop Henrique, the Portuguese Dominican João Baptista, who in September 1542 was appointed auxiliary bishop of São Tomé and titular bishop of Utica.  Bishop João Baptista began a priory in São Salvador for African Dominicans, Diogo Gonçalves Manuel, was suspended from the exercise of his priesthood for voicing too boldly King Álvaro’s sentiments. www.diafrica.org /nigeriaop/kenny/ccta/CCTA2.htm   (653 words)

DDN Headline: SADC Calls for Gender Equity Diogo's appointment was viewed as the passing of the baton from the generation that fought for independence to the one that has been hardened by the challenges of the post-independence era. Diogo was born in 1958 and holds a Masters degree in finance economics. Various women pressure groups believe that Diogo, Mujuru and Mlambo-Ngcuka are not only strong-willed, but are also approachable, efficient administrators who can be rallying points of support for their respective parties. www.digitaldivide.net /news/view.php?HeadlineID=755   (653 words)

Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia History of Africa - In 1482 Diogo Cão discovered the mouth of the Congo, the Cape of Good Hope was rounded by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, and in 1498 Vasco da Gama, after having rounded the Cape, sailed up the east coast, touched at Sofala and Malindi, and went thence to India. Over all the countries discovered by their navigators Portugal claimed sovereign rights, but these were not exercised in the extreme south of the continent. Portuguese ships rounded Cape Bojador[?] in 1434, Cape Verde in 1445, and by 1480 the whole Guinea coast was known. www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/hi/History_of_Africa   (4510 words)

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