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  Press Releases: Angola, Angola/ Malanje: Over 100,000 children await vaccination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Malanje, 07/03 - A total of 1,552 children aged between zero and five years are expected to be vaccinated in Angola`s northern Malanje province, under the nationwide "Enjoy a Healthy Life" campaign of 5-26 July this year.
The information was released during a meeting between journalists and health officials, held over the weekend in Malanje, with the purpose of designing strategies and prevent constraints during the campaign.
The "Enjoy a Healthy Life" campaign in Malanje will seek to reduce the prevalence of malaria and measles by 25 and 75 percent, respectively.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/YAOI-6RD2W7?OpenDocument   (256 words)

  
 Our Mares | Arabian Horses of Kenelm Arabians
Malanje arrived at the farm in December 2001 with Evening Song who just finished her yearling show carreer in the States.
Malanje is the favorite of many of our friends and visitors with her stunning eyes, impressive large forehead, incredible large nostrils and a great overall look and attitude which make of her the one in a million.
Malanje has a very pleasant character, she is very curious and loves to learn new things.
www.kenelmarabians.com /horse_pages/malanje.html   (797 words)

  
 Women's Commission: Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Malanje, the capital of Malanje province, is some 450 kilometers east of Luanda.
In this camp delivering at home may also be due to distance and the lack of transportation to the Malanje central hospital.
At the Malanje central hospital the assessment team visited the maternity ward.
www.womenscommission.org /reports/ao/08.shtml   (434 words)

  
 BBC News | Africa | Food reaches ravaged Angolan town
WFP staff who visited Malanje, east of the capital Luanda, last week described the situation as critical, with an estimated three to four people dying of hunger each day.
The UN says Malanje is crammed with 130,000 displaced people, and has been without regular relief supplies since the beginning of the year when Unita rebels began shelling the city.
According to local health administrators in Malanje, malnutrition levels among children under five are the highest in the country.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/411862.stm   (344 words)

  
 Alexandre Cardinal do Nascimento
Angola Press Agency (Luanda, June 15, 2005) In Malanje, the Cardinal celebrated a religious mass at the Cathedral, as well as visited social and economic infrastructures built and rehabilitated by the catholic church.
Malanje, angolapress-angop.ao, 14/06 2005 - Durant son séjour, le prélat catholique qui a également fêté ses 80 ans, a célébré des messes et visité des infrastructures socio-économiques construites et réhabilitées par l`église catholique en collaboration avec la ligue "LIVEGUM".
Malanje (Angola, angolapress-angop.ao), 13/06 2005- Cristóvao da Cunha qui faisait ces déclarations à la cérémonie d`hommage organisée à l`occasion du 80ème anniversaire du prélat catholique, a fait remarquer que ce dernier s`adonne sans réserve pour aider la population.
www.cardinalrating.com /cardinal_27__article.htm   (2011 words)

  
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MALANJE, 12 September (PLUSNEWS) - HIV-positive people in Angola's Malanje province will no longer have to travel up to 440km to the capital, Luanda, to access life-prolonging anti-AIDS drugs now that treatment is available in their area.
"Malanje is one of the provinces where the response to HIV/AIDS is working well, [based on] an excellent partnership established between the provincial government and Medicins Sans Frontiers [MSF] to ensure access to treatment and support to people living with HIV," said UNAIDS country coordinator Dr Alberto Stella.
Malanje has an HIV prevalence rate of 2.4 percent, while the national figure is 4 percent.
www.plusnews.org /AIDSreport.asp?ReportID=6367   (478 words)

  
 Farm production slowly increases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
MALANJE, 20 Jan 2004 (IRIN) - Food insecurity is still an issue in post-war Angola, but farmers who have been able to return to their fields are beginning to see results after nearly two years of peace.
One success story is the farming association Hua Kinga-mbote Kadissuku ("The one who waits for the good never stumbles" in the local language, Kimbundu) in the northern province of Malanje, led by a charismatic and powerful woman, Maria de Fatima Coimbra.
The loans were partly provided by the Angolan rural development NGO, ADRA (Accao para o Desenvolvimento rural e Ambiente), which has also provided the women with crash courses on their rights, and tips on how to run an association.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=39038   (762 words)

  
 Angola: Peace Monitor, V, 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The report points out that Malanje airport was closed for over four months and Cuito airport was closed twice for periods of up to six weeks.
Malanje is considered the worst-hit, and the Angolan government has declared it a "humanitarian disaster area".
In the same article, Doctors Without Borders estimates that half of Malanje's 100,000 children are malnourished, with a quarter of these suffering from severe malnutrition.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org /education/bol/angola/AngolaPeaceMonitor.htm   (1835 words)

  
 CNN - Renewed Angolan war brings more misery to besieged city - September 20, 1999
MALANJE, ANGOLA (CNN) -- Angola's renewed civil war has hampered humanitarian aid to most areas of the vast southwest African country and put millions at risk of disease and hunger.
The last round of fighting in the area erupted at the height of the agricultural season, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee the surrounding countryside for the relative safety of the city.
A crumbling school gymnasium is the site of yet another feeding center in Malanje, where a mother and her three children wait patiently for their food ration.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9909/20/angola.hunger/index.html   (479 words)

  
 Angola - OCHA: 28-Oct-03
Malanje Province: Fourteen demining engineers were injured when the truck they were travelling in detonated an AT mine 40 cm off the Malanje - Cambaxe road.
There have been 118 cases and 68 deaths since end of June in a meningitis outbreak in Malanje and, according to health care partners, 25 new suspected cases were registered during the reporting period.
Malanje Province has one of the lowest vaccination coverage rates in the country.
iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/03b/ixl131.html   (2030 words)

  
 BBC News | Africa | Angola: Desperate days in a town under siege
It was the town they hoped would provide safe refuge from the attacks which had forced them out of their villages.
But Malanje, home for 140,000 Angolans who fled here to escape bombardments by the Unita rebels, has been shelled nearly every day this year.
And although the aid agencies are trying - they have just returned to Malanje after the shelling kept them out for months - it is hard to get enough supplies in.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/429012.stm   (447 words)

  
 Angola: Peace Monitor, V, 12, 9/5/99
Humanitarian conditions in Angola have continued to deteriorate, withestimates from the United Nations that two hundred people are dying everyday as a result of hunger, sickness and war.
According to the Bishop of Malanje, Luis Maria de Onraita, quoted on 14August in the British newspaper, The Independent, "local food stocks areexhausted.
In the same article, Medecins sans Frontieres estimates that half of Malanje's 100,000 children are malnourished, with a quarter of thesesuffering from severe malnutrition.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Urgent_Action/apic_9599.html   (2470 words)

  
 Angola Peace Monitor - No.12 Vol.5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
According to Jane Standley, filing a rare television report from Malanje for the BBC on 24 August, the city has been shelled nearly every day this year.
According to the Bishop of Malanje, Luis Maria de Onraita, quoted on 14 August in the British newspaper, The Independent, "local food stocks are exhausted.
In the same article, Medecins sans Frontieres estimates that half of Malanje's 100,000 children are malnourished, with a quarter of these suffering from severe malnutrition.
www.actsa.org /Angola/apm/apm0512.html   (2399 words)

  
 allAfrica.com: Angola: Malanje - Kapanda Dam to Increase Production Next Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The official was speaking on the occasion of GAMEK's 24th anniversary, on Sunday, adding that the installation of the first of the two turbines will be completed in April 2007, and the second later in July the same year.
She on the occasion spoke out for the industrialisation of Angola, towards a full utilisation of the country's power potential as a contribute to its socio-economic development.
The first turbine of the Kapanda dam was tested in December 2003, currently supplying power to the capital city, Luanda, generating 80 megawatts of electricity, with the second supplying the city of Malanje.
allafrica.com /stories/200610240698.html   (356 words)

  
 Angolan children die without pediatric surgeon - UMC.org
MALANJE, Angola (UMNS) — Sitting on the couch in the living room of Bishop Jose and Dr. Laurinda Vidal Quipungo, the Rev. R.
The delegation is spending time in Malanje and Luanda meeting with the bishops of East and West Angola.
She serves as the health coordinator for the East Angola United Methodist Annual (regional) Conference, runs a clinic at the conference headquarters, works part-time in the Malanje Provincial Hospital and serves as public health coordinator for the province.
www.umc.org /site/c.gjJTJbMUIuE/b.2122879/k.6039/Angolan_children_die_without_pediatric_surgeon.htm   (1103 words)

  
 Malaria, poverty kill children in Angola - UMC.org
Forty-six percent of all the deaths in Malanje are related to malaria.
Laurinda Vidal Quipungo is a pediatric doctor who works part-time at the Malanje Provincial Hospital, and she is the wife of Bishop Jose Quipungo of the United Methodist Church's East Angola Annual (regional) Conference.
Pedro Francisco Chagas, administrator of the Malanje Provincial Hospital, took the delegation on a tour of the Maxinde neighborhood.
www.umc.org /site/c.gjJTJbMUIuE/b.2122873/k.174A/Malaria_poverty_kill_children_in_Angola.htm   (964 words)

  
 Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The assessment team met with the chief of the Malanje quarter of the camp who walked to the camp from Malanje in 1999.
Most people see having many children as a blessing, but they still want to be able to space their children and lack of resources can be a reason for families to want to limit the number of children they have.
The Malanje chief said that men do not concern themselves with family planning because they think this is a women's issue.
www.rhrc.org /resources/general_reports/angola/angola11.html   (461 words)

  
 Malanje "Website da Província"
Com uma superfície territorial de 97.602 km2, a província de Malanje situa-se no planalto norte de Angola e tem como capital a cidade de Malanje.
A vegetação da província de Malanje compõe-se de florestas abertas, savanas, mosaicos floresta-savana e mosaicos de balcedo-savana.
Malanje é uma província essencialmente agrícola, onde se destacam as culturas de mandioca, arroz, algodão, milho, a batata-doce, ginguba, girassol, feijão, soja e hortícolas, etc. A pecuária está especialmente direccionada à criação de gado bovino, caprino, suíno e ovino.
www.malanje-angola.com   (279 words)

  
 CNN - No survivors from recent U.N. plane crash in Angola - January 26, 1999
In light of the plane crashes and the eruption of new fighting, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended that the U.N. mission monitoring implementation of Angola's shattered 1994 peace accord be withdrawn, except for humanitarian efforts.
Last week, UNITA seized a key bridge over the river Kuanza, opening a route from rebel headquarters at Andulo in the south through Malanje toward the fortified west coast capital held by the government.
The commander, who didn't want to be named, said government troops were fighting for control of a north-south road, and Tuesday's shelling was aimed at neutralizing UNITA positions at a strategic river crossing at Porto Salazar bridge.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9901/26/angola.02/index.html   (551 words)

  
 Angola: Paula goes home to Malanje
It's true: Malanje and its lush green surroundings are beautiful seen from the air.
At the end of 1998 Paula's family was forced by the war to leave home and seek refuge in Luanda, staying there until it was safe to go back early this year.
Scarcely a week after the family had returned to Malanje, Paula was boarding an ICRC plane with 10 other residents of the town on her way to the ICRC's Bomba Alta physical rehabilitation centre in Huambo to be fitted with – and to get used to – a replacement for her artificial limb.
www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57JQA3?OpenDocument&View=defaultBody&style=custo_print   (300 words)

  
 Malanje "Website da Província" (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Malanje possui altitudes variáveis entre 500 e 1500 metros.
Malanje possui 14 municípios e alberga uma população estimada em 1.200.000 habitantes.
Malanje, Cacuso, Calandula, Cangandala, Cahombo, Cambundi-Catembo, Kiwaba Nzoji, Kunda-diá-baze, Luquembo, Massango, Marimba, Mucari, Quela, e Quirima
www.malanje-angola.com.cob-web.org:8888 /default.htm   (279 words)

  
 ANGOLA: Attacks along Strategic Humanitarian Route, 4/28/99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In one such attack on Monday, 19 April, it said two vehicles travelling the 500 km road west towards the capital were ambushed and the passengers shot and killed.
Although transport to the area was "risky", WFP said emergency food supplies in Malanje remained "adequate".
The report gave no indication as to who might be behind the attacks, but analysts told IRIN that although the UNITA rebel movement controlled much of the countryside, there were also armed bands of roving bandits in many parts of the country.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/irin_42899c.html   (329 words)

  
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The province of Malanje already registered 25 deaths by cholera between 30 Mar and 17 Apr 2006, it was announced on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 during a press conference.
According to the spokesman for the commission on prevention and control of cholera, Andre Ribeiro, the number of patients increased to 192, of whom 135 were discharged from hospital.
The death toll from cholera in Angola's northern Malanje province rose from 25 to 46 from 17-18 Apr 2006, a source from the Health Ministry in the province announced.
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 Angola: Peace Monitor, V, 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Malanje has continued to suffer from heavy shelling which began on 4 January.
Civilians have been attacked on the road between Luanda and Malanje, a route which thousands have used to escape the siege.
On 22 April twenty bodies were discovered in the remains of two burnt-out cars on the Luanda-Malanje road, near the town of Lucala.
www.africaaction.org /docs99/ang9904.htm   (2579 words)

  
 Women Ministry Set Up Counselling Centres in Malanje
The local director of Minfamu, Emília Ventura, affirmed that the centres will also be established in Calandula, Cacuso and Cangandala municipalities, to sensitize the community about the fight against violence and to defend women rights.
Emília Ventura explained that the setting up of the centres is urgent because only in June and July of this year about 399 cases of domestic violence were reported in Malanje.
Currently the management of Minfamu in Malanje is working with six associations, among them the Angola's Women Organisation (OMA).
www.peacewomen.org /news/Angola/newsarchive03/counselling.html   (156 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Africa: Angola
In November, a government assault in Malanje aimed at controlling towns near the DRC border drove many civilians to Malanje's provincial capital.
During cleansing operations, government troops forced families to move from the area carrying goods looted by the army; those who refused were beaten or killed.
Those driven from their home areas by government forces were in many cases first moved to the government-controlled municipalities.
www.hrw.org /wr2k2/africa1.html   (2498 words)

  
 javelin98's Starmada Factions: Centurion Military Corporation
The current board of directors of CMC is headed by President General Mark Rohrbach and CEO General Pamela Riekan.
A heavily-armed ship for its size, the Malanje mounts a Denel/Naschem industries YY-90 gravity-lens laser cannon and four one-shot pods of Athena light anti-ship missiles.
Unlike most monitors, the Malanje is a warp-capable ship, as this was deemed cheaper than having a Centurion cargo vessel haul the patrol boat to whatever job site it had been hired to protect.
home.comcast.net /~kudby/cmc.html   (1739 words)

  
 Sub-Saharan Africa
The percentages given above are not necessarily representative of the adult IDP population of Malanje, as many of the healthy people may have been in the fields and some very sick people may have been in hospital at the time of the survey.
It was not possible to establish whether the oedema was caused by eating new, unsafe food (such as grass) due to a lack of normal food-stuffs or whether it was related to traditional healing methods.
The therapeutic feeding centres in Malanje were not all equipped to deal with adult oedema (MSF-H -16/11/99).
www.unsystem.org /scn/archives/rnis29/ch02.htm   (2151 words)

  
 Arms Trade [Angola: Arms Trade a]
UNITA sieges have caused widespread starvation of the civilian population, especially in Kuito and Malanje.
In June 1992 Western intelligence claimed to have exposed a plot by senior members of the MPLA to assassinate Savimbi, and Britain reportedly sent a Special Air Services (SAS) unit to protect him in an attempt to ensure that the peace process was not derailed.
In September 1992 government special forces units (known as FUBU) were transferred to Malanje under the supervision of Governor João Bernardo (a former intelligence chief) to prevent UNITA's armed forces from infiltrating the city.
www.hrw.org /reports/archives/africa/ANGOLA94N.htm   (5979 words)

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