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	The development of the Huambo Province in Angola - The application of a spatial interaction model to simulate the ...
		Huambo province in Angola has been detached from the outside world since the begining of the nineties.
		Furthermore there is the lack of integration of the province itself due to transport difficulties and human desertification.
		The objective of this paper is to understand the role of the roads network and the distribution of public funding in the revival of the economy in the Province of Huambo.
	ideas.repec.org /p/wiw/wiwrsa/ersa05p252.html (393 words)

	Huambo (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With an area of 34,270 km² it is one of the geographically smaller provinces, situated in the Central Region approximately 450 km south east of the capital, Luanda.
		It borders the Province of Kuanza Sul to the Nortwest, Bie to the North and East, Benguela to the West, and Huila to the South.
		Huambo is the richest agricultural province in Angola.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huambo_Province (1142 words)

	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.
		The town of Huambo, 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)

	Angola - OCHA: 10-Jul-03
		Provinces with the largest concentrations of IDPs include Kuando Kubango, Moxico, Malanje and Huíla. On 19 June, the Government of Angola declared that all of the gathering areas were officially closed.
		The assessment was based on provincial vulnerability assessments conducted by representatives of the Government, UN Agencies and NGOs in the provinces of Bengo, Benguela, Bié, Huambo, Huíla, Kuando Kubango, Kuanza Norte, Kuanza Sul, Lunda Sul, Malanje, Moxico and Uíge.
		WHO reported that vulnerability assessments in 15 provinces were carried out in April and May. The objective of the assessments was to identify the areas with the most vulnerable populations to implement the Minimum Health and Nutrition Care Package (MN&NCP) Project.
	www.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/03b/ixl10.html (2525 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Humanitarian situation in Angola monthly analysis: Jan 2002
		In Huambo Province, the majority of newly arrived elderly and a large number of children at the three accessible transit centres in Huambo city are in poor health.
		In Huíla Province, a retrospective mortality survey conducted in Caconda confirms that the status of both displaced and resident populations is critical.
		In Huambo Province, a substantial increase in the number of beneficiaries attending feeding centres was reported during January.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/5dca52c78a936849c1256b6c0039f859 (2991 words)

	Årsakar til migrasjon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Huambo i Angola er eit område som kan visa korleis miljøendringar kan føre til migrasjon.
		I tillegg til dette har skogen gradvis forsvunne ettersom den er ei ettertrakta vedkjelde for lokalbefolkninga.
		Birkeland (2000:114) nemner eksempelvis ei kvinne som «gave the lack of fertile land and the possibility of practising agriculture as her reason to flee further from Huambo to a less safe area».
	nynorsk.encyclopedia.st /%c3%85rsakar_til_migrasjon (1406 words)

	Angola: Famine Rages Across Huambo Province
		In response to extremely grave conditions in Huambo province and elsewhere, the organization has expanded its emergency programs.
		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.charitywire.com /charity55/03122.html (425 words)

	Huambo, Angola - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Luanda - At least 35 000 Angolans face starvation in the central province of Huambo by the end of the year because food stocks are limited and supplies have...
		Guilherme Cardoso was born in Huambo, Angola in 1918.
		In her turn, Feliciana Teresa, a Congress delegate from central Huambo province and who is attending such a meeting for the first time, praised the way in...
	www.4newz.net /world/nz/Huambo.html (485 words)

	International Medical Corps \| Involving the Community in Huambo Province, Angola (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Huambo, a town once known for its beautiful architecture and for the flowering tropical plants which it produces, is certainly world’s apart from Montana.
		Like the whole of Angola, Huambo is undergoing a slow but steady recovery after nearly three decades of brutal civil war, which ended in April 2002 when the government signed a peace treaty with the UNITA rebels.
		As part of my visit to the IMC programs in Huambo Province, I attended an IMC-facilitated VHC meeting and ventured out to the villages to observe and experience the health care activities being carried out at the local level.
	www.imcworldwide.org /fieldnotes/angolaAndrea.html (1126 words)

	Angola - OCHA: 05-Mar-03
		Huambo Province: On 6 - 7 February, WFP airdropped approximately 87 MTs of food to 4,920 beneficiaries in Luvemba in Huambo Province.
		Kuando Kubango Province: In Mavinga, despite repairs in December, the airstrip was closed for seven days in early February due to heavy rains and the rapidly deteriorating landing surface.
		Kuanza Norte Province: According to provincial authorities, approximately 2,200 ex-combatants and family members received assistance and were transported to their areas of origin.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/03a/ixl51.html (2844 words)

	Angola - OCHA: 28-Oct-03
		Benguela Province: During the reporting period, local authorities closed the Benguela transit centre located in a former military quartering camp and moved the 250 people to the new Capiandalo transit centre approximately five km outside the city centre.
		An additional 108 demobilised soldiers and their dependents arrived from the former Menga gathering area in Huambo and humanitarian partners report that the people in the new camp are living in substandard conditions.
		Huambo Province: Approximately half of the 300,000 families who require seeds and tools for the upcoming agricultural campaign will receive inputs from humanitarian partners.
	www.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/03b/ixl131.html (2030 words)

	afrol News - Angolan govt kicks off agricultural season
		The government of Huila province is to provide associations of small and large agricultural producers with powerful tractors, ploughs, hoes, machetes and 700 heads of cattle as well as 300 tons of imported corn seed, 120 tons of sorghum, 46 tons of beans and 400 tons of fertilizers.
		In Huambo Province, north-east of Benguela, authorities are hoping to revitalise the coffee production, planning to extend it throughout the province.
		The municipality of Huambo is the main source of the Arabica coffee plants that INCA is distributing to Londuimbali, Bailundo, Mundo and Kachiungo municipalities in the same province to promote Arabica cultivation throughout central highland province.
	www.afrol.com /articles/14808 (559 words)

	Heavy rains dash hopes of new farmers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The assessment teams could not even reach some communities in the south of the province, believed to be the worst affected.
		Huambo has a population of around 1.5 million, including many returned displaced people who were just beginning to get back on their feet, making their first attempt at farming since the end of Angola's devastating 27-year civil conflict.
		WFP, which distributes food aid to around 1.9 million Angolans across the country, has said it will make another assessment in Huambo in April, once the rains have tapered off and it is able to reach all areas of the province.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=39920 (964 words)

	FEWS NET Region/Country Center
		Given that the most vulnerable groups in Huambo, vulnerable returnees and asset-poor residents who rely on markets for 59% of their food for more than three quarters of the year, this is cause for concern.
		The level of WFP total food stocks in Huambo as of February 15 stands at 1,562 MT. Maize and pulses stocks are reported at 916 MT and 152 MT respectively.
		Although food insecurity is widespread in the province, the food security situation of an additional 300,000 the returnees and asset-poor resident farmers in Caala and Ukuma will deteriorate if their crops were lost due to heavy rains.
	www.fews.net /centers/innerSections.aspx?f=ao&m=1001205&pageID=monthliesDoc (1710 words)

	International Spotlight: Angola
		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.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-adv/specialsales/spotlight/angola/article19.html (618 words)

	Huambo - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
	www.news.daylightonline.com /2003/Huambo.html (549 words)

	Humanitarian Situation in Angola: Monthly Analysis Apr 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Bengo Province, resettlement of IDPs from Cambambe II camp to the proposed Lembeca resettlement site was delayed due to increasing tension among populations in Cambambe II, linked to planned cutbacks in assistance.
		In Namibe Province, flooding of the Beiro and Giraul Rivers destroyed bridges and the railroad connections between the Port of Namibe and Huíla Province.
		In Huambo Province, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC)reported that malnutrition rates continued to decrease among populations living in the peri-urban areas of Huambo.
	www.angola.org /referenc/reports/ucahmay01.html (2527 words)

	Angola News Index (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Huambo, 20/11 - The President of the Scientific Council of Lisbon University's Medical Science Faculty, Salis Amaral, on Wednesday here announced his institution's support for the relaunching of medical and nursery faculties in central Huambo province.
		That official is in Huambo province since Wednesday, where he leads a team from Lisbon University, that is carrying out a three-day working visit here at the invitation of the local Governor, Paulo Cassoma.
		In Huambo, the delegation will conduct preliminary studies on the existing conditions, in terms of infrastructures, for the future facilities of the nursery school and a branch of the medical faculty.
	www.angola.org /news/NewsDetail.cfm?NID=15256 (142 words)

	Huambo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Huambo, 11/05 - Angola`s central Huambo province governor, Paulo Cassoma, said Thursday here that no journalist in the country is prohibited from expressing...
		Huambo, 11/01 - Angolan Social Communication minister, Manuel Rabelais, arrived today morning in Huambo city, from where he left for BiÃ© Province, with the...
		Huambo, 11/02 - The principal of the State-run Agostinho Neto University, Joao Teta, is since today in Huambo city to test the electorate in the central region...
	www.wikiverse.org /huambo (175 words)

	Permanent Mission of Angola to the United Nations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Speaking at the inauguration of a bridge over the Lungue Bungo River in Moxico Province, he said that this was a reasonable time in which to organise all the legislation governing the electoral process and create the conditions for the population to return to their home areas.
		The areas most affected by difficulties were Huambo Province and the regions of Mavinga and Menongue in Kwando Kubango Province, but the WFP was seeking solutions with its partners.
		According to Américo Chimina, deputy governor of Huambo province, this was to remedy the destruction caused in the eighties.
	www.un.int /angola/newsletter02.htm (11739 words)

	Angola: Peace Monitor, VI, 12 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Operations are currently underway around Mungo in Huambo province and Mussende in Bie province, where large amounts of ammunition have been captured from UNITA.
		In Huambo province, the UN reports that a thousand people have fled the town of Longonjo during the past two months.
		The European Union has announced that it is to grant $8 million to assist with the rehabilitation programme in Huambo province.
	www.africaaction.org /docs00/ang0009.htm (2909 words)

	CWS Project Description - Vocational Training for Landmine Survivors - YMCA - Angola
		Dora was born in 1960 in the Angolan province of Bié.
		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.
		YMCA is active in seven provinces of Angola: Luanda, Bengo, Cabinda, Juilz, Kuanza Sul, Uige, and most recently Huambo.
	www.churchworldservice.org /Development/project_description/descriptions/55.html (913 words)

	Angola News Index (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Huambo, Oct 21 - The visiting American delegation, in the country since Monday, is expected in the central Huambo province for a few-hour visit to the province.
		The delegation comprises twenty entrepreneurs who will check the works being done in the Ngove Dam, which is 20 kilometers to the south of the province, and also visit the premises of the Agronomic Investigation Institute and the Agrarian Sciences Faculty.
		The program of visit that reached Angop includes visits to Huambo’s water treatment and distribution center in the river Kulimahala, the thermoelectricity production center of Benfica, the Central Hospital and the polytechnic institute under reparation.
	www.angola.org /news/NewsDetail.cfm?NID=14630 (165 words)

	THE NATIONAL UNION FOR THE TOTAL INDEPENDENCE OF ANGOLA
		1. The Uige Province: On the morning of 30 January, the village of Mukaba, situated 38 km north of the city of Uige, was taken without firing a shot.
		4. Bie Province: On the morning of 31 January, the municipality of Kamakupa which had been re-occupied by the 170th Regiment of the MPLA forces, was re-taken by storm by our forces.
		6. Benguela Province: On the morning of 31 January, the village of Monte Belo situated on the Huambo - Lobito Road, 29 km of Bocoio, ex-sousa lara, was taken by storm.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/docs/unita/en0502991.htm (1014 words)

	Angola's Embassy
		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)

	Permanent Mission of Angola to the United Nations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most significant results were that Cunene Province, bordering on Namibia, had the highest rate of HIV infection (12.9 percent) and Lunda Sul, in the northeast, the highest rate of syphilis (13.2 percent).
		António dos Santos Júnior, director of the programme for the development of fishing communities in the north, which is in charge of the government-funded project, said the aim was to help to lessen the difficulties faced by the people in respect of education and health.
		A general demobilisation and reintegration programme for former soldiers was launched in Caála, Huambo Province, on 27 April.
	www.un.int /angola/newsletter04.htm (4401 words)

	CWS Project Description - Literacy for Peace & Hope — CICA - Angola
		CICA is based in Luanda, yet supports activities and ecumenical offices in seventeen of Angola’s eighteen provinces.
		These beneficiaries will be located in four areas of the Huambo Province.
		Huambo churches will identify which rural churches it will target for literacy classes.
	www.churchworldservice.org /Development/project_description/descriptions/77.html (829 words)

	MSF-USA: Press Release 05/23/2002
		In response to extremely grave conditions in Huambo province and elsewhere, the organization has expanded its emergency programs.
		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.cfm (470 words)

	Press Centre - UNICEF
		Friday, 14 July 2000: The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola and UNICEF Angola are shocked and saddened by this weekend's attack by a group of about 100 armed bandits on Children's Town* in Quissala, Huambo Province, Angola.
		The remaining children and youths are currently being accommodated in a building provided by the Huambo provincial government until the security situation improves and their educational activities resumed on 12 July.
		ADPP and the children have also received support from many NGOs in Huambo Province as well as from various UN agencies in Angola in coping with the situation.
	www.unicef.org /newsline/00pr58.htm (504 words)

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