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	Chevron Crude Oil Marketing - Kuito Characteristics
		Kuito is one of several recently-discovered heavy crude oils from offshore Angola, with low sulfur and an excellent yield of vacuum gas oil.
		Kuito produces a high yield of vacuum gas oil, which is suitable for refineries with hydrocracking facilities and fluidized catalytic crackers which can produce incremental high value transportation fuels by cracking the vacuum gas oil.
		Kuito is a sweet crude oil with the capability of producing low sulfur fuel oil with straight run vacuum resid and cutter.
	crudemarketing.chevron.com /characteristics.asp?kuito (413 words)

	A Pellagra epidemic in Kuito, Angola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kuito is effectively now an enclave due to the high level of military activity in the area and is known to be one of the heaviest mined cities in the world.
		Also, the majority of the population in Kuito were exposed to malaria, diarrhoea and an increased risk of other infections and therefore may have had a greater requirement.
		This was targeted to everyone in Kuito and implemented as CSB had as yet to be included in the general ration.
	www.ennonline.net /fex/10/fa12.html (2066 words)

	Kuito, a child’s map of war and infinity
		Kuito, a child’s map of war and infinity
		Through the doors of grand, darkened houses, the voices of adults, slow and unstinting as the afternoon, gather letters of the alphabet and dreams to teach children of vanquished utopias, the secrets of the wind and the two-times table.
		Located at the heart of Angola’s main plain, Kuito is the most devastated city in Africa.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2001_07/uk/dici.htm (1125 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Mission impossible for UN in Kuito
		Mr Sangueve is one of 160,000 people that live in camps around Kuito, driven out of their farms and villages as war continues between government forces and Unita rebels.
		Kuito airport's runway is badly potholed, slowing down the rate of aid deliveries.
		At the same time, newly displaced people continue to arrive both in Camacupa and in Kuito itself, bringing stories of how they were forced from their farms and villages during attacks by Unita.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/world/africa/newsid_1394000/1394645.stm (752 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Chevron announces first oil from Angolan Kuito
		Kuito is expected to reach peak production of 100,000 bpd by the end of this quarter.
		The Kuito field, discovered in April 1997, lies offshore Cabinda Province in Angola's deep-water Block 14, a 1,560-square-mile concession adjacent to Chevron-operated Block 0.
		"Kuito is the first of several such projects in Block 14," Puckett noted, adding that detailed reservoir and development studies are now under way for the Benguela and Belize fields, both of which were discovered by Chevron and its partners last year.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cna01026.htm (452 words)

	At least 7,000 victims of Angola war to be exhumed in Kuito
		Life in Kuito came to a standstill Monday to mark the official start of the exhumations of the town's war victims, who local journalists say probably numbered close to 13,000.
		The remains of the local armed forces commander in Kuito, General Alfredo Kussumua, who was killed in battle in 1994, have already been removed from beneath the destroyed local government headquarters in Kuito town centre and buried at the memorial site.
		Kuito was especially hard hit during the war, which ended in April last year, having been the scene of heavy fighting in 1993-94 and again between 1997 and 2000.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bj/Qangola-war-victims.R_tq_DOD.html (192 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN \| Web Special \| Kuito - A legacy of war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kuito, the battered capital of Bie Province, is no stranger to suffering, its people no strangers to death.
		Kuito lies in Angola's panalto, the fertile central highlands region that was once the country's breadbasket.
		IRIN recently visted Kuito to examine the plight of the residents and displaced in the city, who daily confront the legacy of Africa's longest-running war.
	www.irinnews.org /webspecials/kuito (755 words)

	Carte Blanche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The bombing in Kuito began in 1992 and lasted for 22 months, reducing the once thriving city to what is now known as the “Beirut of Africa”.
		Kuito is almost situated in the middle of Angola, in the province of Bie.
		As we were leaving, he told us that he was making an appeal on the local radio asking the people of Kuito to open their hearts and give the little they could to spare to the destitute refugees, while the rest of the world remains largely disinterested.
	www.carteblanche.co.za /Display/Display.asp?Id=1621 (2716 words)

	Welcome to Doctors For Life
		The bombing of Kuito began in 1992 and lasted 22 months, reducing the once- thriving city to what is now known as the Beirut of Africa.
		He covered the siege of Kuito extensively, risking his life to expose the atrocities of war to the world.
		A week ago aid organisations in Kuito were alerted to new refugee camps close by, with conditions that were thought to be the worst in the country.
	www.doctorsforlifeinternational.com /programs/a2a/theirstories.cfm (1616 words)

	Total - Corporate Web Site - Press releases - Oct. 06, 98 - Start-Up of First Development ...
		Production at Kuito is scheduled to begin in the second half of 1999, with phase one output expected to quickly reach a level of 100,000 b/d.
		Gas produced at Kuito will be re-injected rather than flared, in what will be the first application of this technique in deep Angolan waters.
		Since the discovery of Kuito, two other structures, Landana and Benguela, have been identified on Block 14, where a very active exploration campaign is continuing.
	www.total.com /en/press/press_releases/pr_1998/981006_startup_kyoto_1787.htm (295 words)

	WFP - Angola
		In Kuito alone, it is estimated that more than 1,000 of exhausted mothers, together with their severely malnourished children, are receiving medical help from aid agencies.
		The situation is even worse in Camacupa, a small town some 20 kilometres northeast of Kuito and recently caught in the crossfire of the civil war.
		Kuito airport's runway is covered in potholes and cannot withstand more than six cargo flights a day, equivalent to about 65 percent of the city's needs.
	www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_depth/angola.html (983 words)

	Kuito report 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The following is the final report of the Kuito Training and Household Economy Assessment, carried out between 14th and the 27th of November 2000.
		The aim of the survey was to obtain a coherent picture of how households in defined wealth categories gain access to their food and the proportion of the population in each wealth group.
		Eighty detailed interviews were conducted over a six-day period, covering most of the geographical areas in and around Kuito, including the surrounding barrios and IDP camps.
	www.savethechildren.org.uk /foodsecurity/documentation/swa/kuito.htm (188 words)

	UNICEF - Panorama: Angola - In Angola, survivors show Mia Farrow hope, friendship
		Now Kuito stores a wealth of stories, one for each person who still lives here, or has come to live as a displaced person from the ravaged countryside.
		Kuito underwent the longest siege of the 30 year Angolan civil war, surrounded and bombarded for 18 months in 1993.
		From Kuito, Farrow travelled to the northern town of Malanje, to one of the 35 new camps around the country that house former UNITA fighters and their families, where UNICEF is supporting birth registration, education, and immunization.
	www.unicef.org /spanish/infobycountry/angola_10907.html (958 words)

	Chevron Press Release - Chevron Announces Naming Of Fpso Kuito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Kuito, named after the field discovered by Chevron in 1997, is an integral part of plans for first development of Block 14, a 1,560-square-mile area located adjacent to another Chevron-operated concession, Block 0, offshore from Angola's Cabinda Province.
		After its commissioning, the FPSO Kuito will sail to the western coast of Africa where the vessel will be spread moored in about 1,260 feet of water above the Kuito oil field which is located about 50 miles offshore Angola.
		Kuito crude will be exported via a buoy terminal designed to load VLCC size tankers.
	www.chevron.com /news/archive/chevron_press/1999/1999-08-09.asp (466 words)

	RIGZONE - ChevronTexaco Announces First Oil from Kuito 1C
		Average daily production for Kuito in 2002 is expected to be approximately 66,000 barrels of oil.
		"The Kuito Field development is but one of a number of exciting deepwater projects now taking place in Block 14," Robertson added, pointing out that engineering, procurement, construction and installation bid packages are being finalized for the Benguela and Belize fields.
		Gass also noted that a number of the components (subsea manifold, midwater arches and gravity bases) for Kuito Phase 1C were manufactured locally in Angola.
	www.rigzone.com /news/article.asp?a_id=1878 (369 words)

	MSF-USA: Special Reports from MSF
		In Kuito, where Doctors Without Borders runs a surgical program, the effects of renewed conflict are reflected in the alarming increase in the number of victims of explosive and gunshot wounds.
		The civilians of Kuito are also suffering increases in cases of malnutrition.
		Attendance records from Doctors Without Borders' intensive feeding program in Kuito show that admissions in the first six months of 1999 are almost two and a half times higher than in the same period in 1998.
	www.doctorswithoutborders-usa.org /publications/reports/1999/angola_1999.htm (881 words)

	AngolaPress - News
		Kuito, 09/23 - Angola`s Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, is since Wednesday in central Bie province for a two-day working visit, meant to assess the region`s social and economic development and reconstruction phase.
		From Kuito, the prime minister flew to Chinguar district, some 75 kilometres of Kuito, where he was due to inaugurate a primary school and hand out school materials.
		At the Kuito independence square, Nando will visit the headquarters of the provincial Government, the provincial assembly nucleus and the Reserve Bank whose repair works are in their final stage.
	www.angolapress-angop.ao /noticia-e.asp?ID=284014 (373 words)

	Angola's Tough Survivors - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		But no one in Kuito is in the business of exaggerating their woes.
		But the ruins are on a less grand scale than Kuito, and the first thing you notice here is the trees - neatly-spaced avenues with the branches pruned back for the winter, so as to make a nice shape when they come into leaf.
		As we approached Kuito, the conversation became more animated - Unita was on this hill in '98 - the government was on the other one over there.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/angola/2001/0731kuit.htm (949 words)

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		Fernandez said the distribution of food to the needy would not be affected by the accident because even though WFP had to suspend its flights to Kuito until the runway was cleared, there was enough food aid in the city to last for about two months.
		The [UN and US-led] delegation which visited Kuito also raised the condition of the road between Kuito and Camacupa, about 80 km away, which was opened earlier this year, granting humanitarian workers access to thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing fighting between government and rebel UNITA troops.
		A bridge and a stretch of road in a state of disrepair near to Camacupa could cause the town to be cut off during the rainy season.
	www.idpproject.org /Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/C574DB6593EEFF52C1256B89003C3343 (576 words)

	ANGOLA / SIEGE
		Kuito itself, like most major cities in Angola, is securely in government hands and relatively stable at the moment.
		The state of the airstrip is still not very good, we cannot fly in the number of planes we would like to, and once the rainy season starts, it is going to be even worse.
		He says Kuito can stand as an example to the whole world of the misery and the destruction that war can bring.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/10/war-001015-afago.htm (720 words)

	SOUTHERN AFRICA
		The population of Kuito is estimated to be around 111,444 people with 82,500 IDPs being counted by the MSF teams in and around the town in October 2000.
		MSF-B and Concern have conducted nutritional surveys amongst the resident population of Kuito, the capital of Bie province, and in the surrounding camps in November 2000 (see graph).
		Kuito has suffered repeated outbreaks of pellagra (niacin deficiency) with the first being recorded between June 99 and April 2000.
	www.unsystem.org /scn/archives/rnis3233/ch5.htm (2507 words)

	Angola's Embassy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bie is a vast plain with an area of 70, 314 km², in the shape of a heart, in the geographical centre of Angola, in the municipality of Kamacupa, where the colonial power set up a statue of Christ the King.
		There are six groups in the province, distributed as follows: Ovimbundu - which is comprised by the majority of the population, in the municipalities of Andulo, Chinguar, Kuito, Katabola, Kamacupa, Kun-hinga and Nhanrea.
		With the practice of hunting and the forced sending of the men to work as labourers in the 1950s, after they came back, some traditions slowly lost their character.
	www.angolaemb.se /angola/provinces/bie.htm (358 words)

	Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
		The physical devastation is still visibly evident as very few structures have been reconstructed and those few that have are housing international aid agencies or government officials.
		Kuito's population has almost tripled from 200,000 before 1998 to over 500,000 due to the influx of IDPs from the countryside where conditions are worse.
		The one maternity in the provincial hospital is not enough to serve the entire population within Kuito, much less the entire province.
	www.rhrc.org /resources/general_reports/angola/angola07.html (723 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » OCHA Special Humanitarian Situation Report on Bié Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The TFC at the Kuito provincial hospital registered a 24 percent mortality rate during the first two weeks of June, decreasing to 14 percent by the third week of June.
		Kuito: According to humanitarian partners, more than 160,000 IDPs are currently living in 15 camps in Kuito.
		Therapeutic feeding centres in Kuito were also reinforced by providing rations for the families of enrolled children.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/7ec9571b9a6c8d62c1256a880051f4c8 (1884 words)

	Chevron Block 14 08:2001 Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Kuito Field discovery well tested a robust amplitude anomaly in a flat spot in the northeast portion of block 14.
		Today the Kuito Field is producing 65,000 barrels of oil a day from an FPSO, with ultimate production when all phases are complete to hit over 90,000 BOPD.
		Kuito is Chevron's first giant field in the play.
	www.aapg.org /explorer/2001/08aug/chevronblock14.cfm (1934 words)

	Weekly Round-Up - IRINSA-26: 13-Jul-01
		According to the OCHA report: "The therapeutic feeding centre (TFC) at the Kuito provincial hospital registered a 24 percent mortality rate during the first two weeks of June, decreasing to 14 percent by the third week of June," the report said.
		In addition, medical staff in Kuito have had to deal with an average of 70 pellagra cases a week since an outbreak in mid-June.
		Even though repairs had begun in June and were scheduled to be completed in October, the agency said it was concerned that the repairs could result in the temporary closure of the airstrip, blocking the regular delivery of goods.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/irin/safrica/01b/ixl1.html (3416 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN \| Web Special \| Kuito - A legacy of war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		KUITO, June (IRIN) - Ten-year-old Costa Sapalo wants peace and a family more than anything in the world - not new sneakers to replace his torn ones or long pants to beat off the cold.
		Costa is one of 120 children who live in an orphanage simply called 'the lodge' in Kuito, the capital of Angola's Bie Province.
		IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
	www.irinnews.org /webspecials/kuito/war.asp (699 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Kuito hunger 'grows worse'
		Those people who are able to remain on their farms have already eaten most of the food from the last harvest, and looting by armed groups has further diminished the food stocks.
		Earlier this week, the WFP resumed aid flights to Kuito, which had been suspended after two incidents in which missiles were fired from the ground at WFP planes.
		Since Kuito airport is also used by military planes, only the government may carry out repairs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1411452.stm (401 words)

	Angola Refugee Crisis
		Kuito is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster.
		ARC continues to endeavor to bring some relief to its people and to feed the indomitable spirit that has kept them alive to this point.
		Refugees are entitled to international help; the Kuito refugee people deserve a chance to participate in a life of dignity.
	www.isisa.co.za /isisa/angolan (283 words)

	Relief Efforts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The security situation in Kuito city is quite similar to that of Huambo.
		Markets are open in Kuito and both food and other goods are readily available, although at higher prices than before the conflict.
		While there is no immediate cause for concern, there is need to closely monitor the food situation as any worsening in the state of the security is bound to have its repercussions.
	www.angola.org /relief/e_icrc.html (1029 words)

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