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	Huambo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Huambo is the capital of Huambo Province in Angola.
		Huambo was located on the central Angolan railway which runs from the port of Benguela to the Congo border.
		Huambo city, the capital of the old Bailundo empire, was inaugurated in 1912 with the arrival of the Benguela Railway in the Central Plateau.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huambo (1385 words)

	Huambo (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In many areas, the soil has been impoverished by overuse and erosion., however, the soil is generally of better quality than in the adjoining regions to the east, north and south.
		Huambo is a relatively populated province with 1,948,000 people, aproximately 15 % of the estimated national of 12.6 million.
		Nearly 55 % of the population is concentrated in Huambo City (est.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huambo_Province (711 words)

	Huambo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The chief town of inland Angola, Huambo stands on a high plateau and serves as a road, rail, and air transport hub and as a commercial and shipping center for a rich agricultural region.
		World of Concern : A woman's strength in a country at war; Donna Julio has to be stern and strong because the lives of 250 children are in her hands.
		In the town of Huambo she is the only hope they have.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Huambo.asp (385 words)

	Angolan Embassy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Known as "The Granary of Angola", the province of Huambo has long been at the center of Angolan history — it was here that the grandiose city of Nova Lisboa or New Lisbon was built during the heyday of Portuguese colonialism in the early 20th century.
		Although Huambo is still the most densely populated province in the country, three quarters of its population are displaced.
		The obvious priorities are the regeneration of the city of Huambo itself, as well as the rehabilitation of the province's maize plantations.
	www.embangola-can.org /p-huambo-history.html (583 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 6 \| 1993: Angolans die in battle for Huambo
		Fighting around Huambo has intensified after Unita brought in troop reinforcements from Bie province, which is around 165km away to the east of the city.
		The fighting in Huambo comes after the breakdown of a 1991 peace agreement which was aimed at ending 16 years of civil war in the former Portuguese colony.
		Huambo is home to the Ovimbundu, the people who gave Mr Savimbi's Unita (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) movement its main support.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/low/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_4270000/4270617.stm (486 words)

	NATIONAL PRIVATE INVESTMENT AGENCY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The municipalities are: Huambo, Londuimbale, Bailundo, Mungo, Tchindjenje, Ucuma, Ekunha, Tchicala- Tcholoanga, Catchiungo, Longonjo and Caála. The main economic activity is agriculture.
		Paiva Coteiro was the first specialist to study the region of Huambo and he arrived at the conclusion that it has all the conditions to accommodate urban centres, due to its excellent climate, geographical position favourable for agriculture, a good hydrographic grid, friendly population and network of rivers for fishing and swimming.
		Julião António is in the central plateau Huambo region to analyse how the financial resources are being applied in the government`s projects, in ambit of the programme of improving and increasing the delivery of basic social services to the populations, carried out since 2003 until the first half of 2004.
	www.iie-angola-us.org /huambo.htm (1147 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » War is over but Angola's former granary still depends on food aid
		HUAMBO, Angola, Oct 30 (AFP) - Angola's central province of Huambo used to be the country's breadbasket, but 18 months after the end of the country's 27-year civil war the majority of its one million people still depend on foreign aid.
		But after four decades of colonial, and then civil, war, during which Huambo became the fiefdom of UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, its fields are peppered with landmines and aid agencies are one of its only sources of food.
		The refugees include many former UNITA fighters from Huambo, one of the provinces worst affected by the bitter conflict, and peasants who fled the conflict and landmines for the slums of Luanda and Huambo city.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/e9785b6ca84d6f2bc1256dcf0059e8c5 (537 words)

	Flowers Huambo - Florist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Local florists at Huambo will deliver your next day and will be received by the recipient in his/her hands.
		Flower Arrangements sent in Huambo are created by proffesional Huambo florists and are delivery in any part of Huambo.
		If you reside in europe you well know about the Interflora Huambo service and if you live in Usa we can tell you that Interflora florists are like FTD Huambo florists because Interflora its the name of FTD in Europe.
	www.abcflora.com /continents/africa/angola/huambo.htm (205 words)

	CNN - U.N. says second plane shot down in Angola - January 2, 1999
		Angolan state radio said the plane was hit near Bailundo, a UNITA stronghold some 80 km (50 miles) north of Huambo and the fate of those on board was not known.
		Huambo is several hundred km (miles) from Angola's Atlantic seaboard.
		Fighting around Huambo and nearby has shattered Angola's 1994 peace accord and pointed to a resumption of the civil war that began in conjunction with Angola's move to independence from Portugal in 1975.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9901/02/angola.plane.01 (687 words)

	Angola: Aid ends around Huambo
		The ICRC has ended its distributions of food and garden-vegetable seed to some 70,000families (almost 300,000individuals), the residents of 120villages around Huambo, as well as to displaced people living in camps in the area.
		Fierce fighting on the Planalto between government troops and UNITA forces in late 1998 caused a food shortage affecting civilians living in the Huambo area, and over 30% of the population eventually suffered from severe malnutrition.
		An ICRC food survey carried out in March in the villages around Huambo and Caala showed that the severe malnutrition rate among the population had dropped to 2.2%.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57JR27 (313 words)

	People of Huambograpple with trauma of Angola war
		As the stronghold of Jonas Savimbi's Unita rebels, Huambo took the brunt of the fighting, changing hands between the guerrillas and the MPLA government's army.
		Huambo is still without electricity or running water.
		Huambo has the largest group of demobilised combatants and displaced people.
	www.namibian.com.na /2004/december/world/048328A097.html (902 words)

	Huambo - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Huambo, 01/22 - The annual pastoral conference of the Catholic church, which started on Thursday, in the central Huambo Province, is scheduled to end on Sunday...
		This was announced on Wednesday in Huambo city by the said Commission's coordinator, VirgÃlio Fontes Pereira, at the end of his two-day visit to that central...
		Guilherme Cardoso was born in Huambo, Angola in 1918.
	news.daylightonline.com /2005/Huambo.html (868 words)

	About Huambo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Central Plateau region, consisting of Huambo and Bie, was especially war-embattled.
		This is the day of massive reconstruction for Huambo, where a bag of cement costs US $15.
		Huambo is known as the "Cultural Centre of Angola".
	ywamafrica.org /South_Central/Angola/Huambo/about.htm (415 words)

	165,286 Huambo Children Immunized Against Measles
		Huambo, 04/28 - About 165, 286 children were immunized against measles in Angola`s central Huambo province, during the first stage of the national campaign against this illness.
		According to a local public health representative, Salomão Ernesto, Huambo city alone went beyond expectations with 88, 529 children vaccinated against the 70,000 predicted.
		During the first stage of the national vaccination campaign against measles, Huambo province expected to immunize an overall 526, 373 children aged between 9 month and 15 years old.
	www.vaccinationnews.com /DailyNews/2003/April/29/165286Huambo29.htm (133 words)

	CWS Project Description - Vocational Training for Landmine Survivors - YMCA - Angola
		In 1975, at the age of fifteen, her parents were captured and taken into the forest by UNITA rebel forces.
		In Huambo, despite the daily reminders of war, Dora had the good fortune to find employment as a typist at one of the regional military offices, and then later at a primary school.
		She had a newborn baby that was still breastfeeding, but on this day she did not carry her on her back; she chose to leave her home.
	www.churchworldservice.org /Development/project_description/descriptions/55.html (913 words)

	ACT Appeals
		Uíge, Malange, Huambo, Bié, Kuando-Kubango are the provinces in which the humanitarian situation is extremely bad.
		The number of displaced is increasing daily in the urban protection centres and due to shortage of housing many displaced are living in warehouses in deplorable conditions.
		Within Uíge and Huambo there is no free movement of people and goods, while in Kwanza-Sul it is possible to travel by road almost at any time of day.
	www.act-intl.org /appeals/appeals_2001/AFAO11Rev1.html (2312 words)

	Huambo - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The small airstrips in the communes and districts of central Huambo province are since this week being rehabilitated by the local management of Transports...
		Huambo, 10/11 About twenty journalists from various Mass Media organisations in central Huambo province, are participating from today in a seminar on...
		She arrived at the camp six years ago, after her home in Huambo, in the central highlands, was destroyed during the war.
	news.daylightonline.com /2003/Huambo.html (549 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Huambo, food distributions were made to 10'000 families on a regular basis in the camps for displaced persons (IDPs) of Caala and the now closed camp of Cruzeiro.
		Furthermore, vegetable seed kits were distributed to 10'000 families in the province of Bié and to 42'000 families in the province of Huambo.
		Furthermore, in the provinces of Huambo, Bié and Uige, the ICRC supports 12 Primary Health Care centres and promotes HIV/AIDS preventive action for a range of 300'000 beneficiaries, in collaboration with the national Red Cross Society (CVA) and the Ministry of Health.
	www.idpproject.org /Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/139526136C2A845DC1256C0F002DD3B4 (838 words)

	UNHCR - UNHCR starts airlift from Namibia to Angola's central highlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Angolan refugees left Osire camp in central Namibia on Thursday morning, and within hours, were airborne on the inaugural flight to Huambo, the main town in Angola's central highlands that serves as the transport and commercial hub for the agriculturally-rich region.
		Huambo was also the stronghold of Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) before his death in 2002 paved the way for peace accords that ended 27 years of civil war in Angola.
		Airlifts offer the only feasible way back to Huambo as the long distance and poor road conditions make it unsafe to return to the central highlands by other means.
	www.unhcr.ch /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=415422524&page=news (563 words)

	Relief Efforts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The ICRC resumed its flights to Huambo on 11 January, following their suspension after the crash of two United Nations aircraft in the vicinity of Huambo on 26 December 1998 and 2 January 1999, and restarted its operations in Kuito on 15 January.
		The number of the war-wounded treated in Huambo city is, fortunately, lower than expected considering the intensity of the hostilities.
		In view of the gravity of the food situation in Angola, the ICRC is establishing an early warning system using both local and expatriate personnel, to monitor the food situation in the country in order to facilitate timely and effective responses to emerging needs.
	www.angola.org /relief/e_icrc.html (1029 words)

	International Medical Corps \| Eradicating Polio in Huambo, Angola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Huambo, IMC’s team of six vaccinators have dedicated themselves to educating and protecting children and women of child-bearing age from vaccine-preventable diseases, carried forward through the intermediary of health centers and posts and mobile clinics.
		During the visit, CORE staff members were pleased by the presence of an enthusiastic crowd of mainly women and children gathered in the reception area outside the San Pedro health center, awaiting their arrival.
		Not only does it allow for communication of messages of lifesaving importance, it allows for bridges of friendship and trust to be built among those who are present – a most vital consideration for a country that is just emerging from twenty-seven years of civil war.
	www.imc-la.com /fieldnotes/huambo-polio.html (550 words)

	Angola: Agricultural assistance programme in Huambo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The programme, which is to benefit both residents and displaced persons, will be carried out in two phases corresponding to the two growing seasons of the Angolan Planalto.
		Last week, 12,319 families in the town of Huambo each received a hoe, cabbage, onion, tomato, carrot and eggplant seed and 5 kilos of fertilizer.
		These supplies will be provided to a total of 34,437 families in Huambo and nearby villages.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57JPSL (211 words)

	BBC - Weather Centre - World Weather - Country Guides - Angola
		Over most of Angola the weather and climate are typical of a tropical plateau, with a single wet season at the time of high sun between October and March and a long dry season.
		Above 1,500 m/5,000 ft temperatures around the year are temperate rather than tropical and frost is not unknown.
		Over most of the interior the mean annual rainfall is between 1,000 mm/40 in and 1,500 mm/60 in, being greater at higher levels.
	www.bbc.co.uk /weather/world/country_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT000040&ignore=yes (498 words)

	Angola's Embassy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Paiva Conceiro was the first specialist to study the region of Huambo and he arrived at the conclusion that it has all the conditions to accommodate urban centres, due to its excellent climate, geographical position favorable for agriculture, a good hydrographic grid, friendly population and network of rivers for fishing and swimming.
		In 1928, the engineer Antonio Vicente Ferreira, baptized the city of Huambo with the name Nova Lisboa (New Lisbon) and prepared it to be the capital of Angola.
		However, only the name of the city was changed because of the various schools of opinion opposed to this city becoming the capital of the country, because of Luanda’s more favorable position, on the sea.
	www.angolaemb.se /angola/provinces/huambo.htm (243 words)

	Update 00/02 on Angola: Improving health and economic security in Huambo region
		Whereas food assistance in Huambo town was provided by the World Food Programme (WFP), the ICRC's focus was on semi-rural areas of Huambo and on the outskirts of Huambo city.
		Owing to the positive impact of the general food programme and the harvest produced by the beneficiaries of the agricultural programme, in April 2000, the ICRC stopped food general assistance for a four-month period.
		Semi-rural and outlying regions of Huambo were divided into four areas in which a quarterly follow-up on the nutritional situation was conducted using the Quac-stick method (a method of body measurement which uses height and arm-circumference to determine the presence of acute malnutrition in children of 1 to 5).
	www.cicr.org /Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList204/DEF390AA567DF9CEC1256B66005E6684 (1822 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Huambo: Government hands over 18 repaired houses
		Huambo, 24/11 - At least eighteen residences in central Huambo province which were destroyed during the armed conflict that ravaged the country were handed over to their owners, after being rehabilitated, for two months by the local government.
		The whole rehabilitation of the houses located along "Governador Horacio Rebelo" avenue is part of a five-year project called "Huambo, Cement and Paint".
		The project, estimated at USD 1,8 million, started on last September 21st, at the time that the city of Huambo celebrated its 92nd birthday since its foundation.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/d08fb0233ddda73fc1256dea005c1be1 (203 words)

	MSF-USA: Press Release 05/23/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since the beginning of April, MSF has conducted evaluations of the humanitarian needs in previously isolated areas of the country newly accessible due to the peace process.
		Evaluations conducted in eastern Huambo (specifically in Catchiungo and Sambo) reveal an equally catastrophic situation that has overwhelmed the capacities and resources of humanitarian organizations.
		For that reason, MSF urges the Angolan government and international organizations to organize immediate food distributions throughout Huambo province, as well as in provinces facing similar conditions.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /pr/2002/05-23-2002.htm (402 words)

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