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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Viagem a Mavinga
Menongue was a “big” city in those days, especially when compared with the other places in the province.
With a population of approximately 5,000 inhabitants, quite a few shops, the residence of the Governor and a couple of hotels, Menongue was the largest population centre in the district and the capital of the Cuando Cubango.
In Menongue we would have to wait for a supply truck or if we were really lucky a government officer travelling the province in business.
www.nhamalanda.com /trip1.html   (979 words)

  
 Agenzia Fides - ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/ANGOLA - New Bishop of Menongue
The new Bishop was born on 13 May 1957 in Caimbambo (diocese of Benguela).
Menongue diocese created in 1975 is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Lubango.
It is situated in the south east of Angola and covers the whole province of Kuando.
www.fides.org /eng/news/2005/0508/30_5501.html   (214 words)

  
 Angola - OCHA: 28-Feb-03
Kuando Kubango Province: Two mine incidents were reported in Mavinga, including an incident near the airstrip on 18 February that resulted in one injury and anti-personnel explosion in the centre of town on 25 February that resulted in one injury.
An incident near the Menongue airstrip on 19 February resulted in one death.
Partners in Menongue plan to conduct additional mine awareness activities in the neighbourhood near the airport.
iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/03a/ixl61.html   (2205 words)

  
 One last call for emperical science before parliament passes the traditional health practitioners bill.
The goal was to reach Menongue, about 350 kilometers away, in eight hours.
The roads have been ruined by the war – in fact, Menongue, the third-largest city in Angola, which could be compared to Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, is totally cut off from road transport for three months during the rainy season.
The war has truly crippled the country – Menongue, which used to be a thriving city, now has ruined buildings, no running water and no electricity.
www.doctorsforlifeinternational.com /about/media/releases/news/2005/june/2005-06-06_angola_outreach.cfm   (2247 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Humanitarian situation in Angola: Reporting period 01 - 07 Jan 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kuando Kubango Province: On 23 and 23 December, NGOs, OCHA and MINARS provided transportation to resettle 314 IDPs from the Menongue reception centre to the new Liapeca resettlement area, 27 km southwest of Menongue.
Menongue and Kuito Kuanavale are the only municipalities accessible to humanitarian organisations in the province.
Kuando Kubango Province: In the early morning of 24 December, the bairro of Chihongo, 12 km north of Menongue town, was attacked, resulting in 8 civilian deaths and twelve wounded.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/f42cd7876ed1e1fe852569d20056c1b2   (1073 words)

  
 Angola - OCHA: 23-Jun-03
Population numbers in the Menongue transit centre in Kuando Kubango Province decline significantly.
Kuando Kubango Province: All three gathering areas in the province are empty after the last people in Matungo GA were moved on 23 May. Five hundred people remained in the Menongue transit centre, down from a population of 5,000 at the end of April.
Flooding in Rivungo Municipality and other areas east of Mavinga destroyed crops and displaced approximately 2,600 people who arrived in Mavinga town seeking food assistance during May. Reception centres need to be constructed in Katuiti and Caiundo to facilitate the repatriation of Angolan refugees from Namibia beginning in June.
www.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/03a/ixl143.html   (2567 words)

  
 apartment rental in Menongue.Reviews, Hotels Menongue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When looking for a lodging in Menongue,you should remember that during peak periods bookings might be fully booked early in the town you intend to reserve your lodging, so it is always best to book your apartment rental in Menongue as soon as you know you will be needing a hotel.
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 ANGOLA DISPLACED
Although the government-controlled town of Menongue is relatively secure, several nearby areas are still hotly contested.
But over all, aid workers say the challenges facing people in Menongue are no different than anywhere else in Angola.
Once they get the mines cleared, people in the Menongue resettlement camp hope to plant enough to feed themselves, and maybe even to sell at the market in town.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/10/war-001013-afago1.htm   (664 words)

  
 ReliefWeb: Humanitarian situation in Angola: Reporting period 12 - 18 March 2001
This group, originating from the northwest of the province where maize and sweet potatoes are cultivated, did not wish to participate in resettlement programmes where the cultivation of manioc and millet is prioritised, as in Quartir.
Kuando Kubango Province: On 13 March, a house was destroyed by a bomb in Bairro Saude in Menongue.
The northeast and northwest of Menongue is reported to be insecure.
www.asyl.net /Magazin/Docs/docs-19/M-1/0346ang.htm   (1499 words)

  
 SOUTHERN AFRICA
The population of Menongue is estimated to be 135,200 including about 22,000 IDPs who have arrived since December 1998.
ACH undertook a nutrition survey in April 2000 on children between the ages of 6-59 months and found that the nutritional status of both the town and camp populations was acceptable.
The intermittent rainfall throughout the country has particularly affected Menongue and Cuito Canavale and is responsible for the slump in agricultural production that may have had an affect on nutritional status.
www.unsystem.org /scn/archives/rnis3233/ch5.htm   (2507 words)

  
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A crowd of mutilados - Portuguese for the mutilated ones - gathered outside the CARE office in Menongue, Angola.
Their tragedy is compounded by the fear that the same thing can happen at any time to their friends and loved ones.
Until the mines are gone they can't pass on their traditional livelihoods, rebuild their country, or pause to dream.
www.careusa.org /newsroom/specialreports/land_mines/taylor922.asp   (979 words)

  
 The Siege of Kunduz is a Defining Moment For Us All
I remember the Angolan city of Menongue – the colonial Portuguese called it the place at the end of the earth – during the Unita siege of the early 90s.
The people in Menongue had a fair idea of what to expect if their town fell to Unita.
What I will never forget is the pure terror in the faces of those condemned to stay behind in Menongue while we flew out to safety.
www.commondreams.org /views01/1124-01.htm   (1413 words)

  
 Can We Face the Victims?, by Clarice Taylor (3.3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A crowd of "mutilados," Portuguese for "the mutilated ones," gathered outside the CARE office in Menongue, Angola.
Fenced in by landmines, the people of Menongue struggle to see the future.
Until the mines are gone they cannot pass on their traditional livelihoods, rebuild their country, or pause to dream.
maic.jmu.edu /JOURNAL/3.3/focus/post_oslo.htm   (829 words)

  
 Return of KSB team with DFL from Angola 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On average, over 180 patients were examined and either received medicine or had a tooth extracted.
The evening would then be spent showing a film and holding a service again that was usually ended with an altar call.
We shared the gospel to him and explained the divine intervention that God had sent nine men to meet him on that road and offer him assistance.
www.kwasizabantu.com /outreaches/angola/ksb_dfl_angola_2005.htm   (467 words)

  
 Fall/Winter 1999 - HR in Angola
My first memories are of the putrid smell and the shantytowns of Luanda, the capital.
This greatly contrasted with the better-cared for Menongue, the capital of Kuando-Kubango, the most south-eastern province, where I spent most of my time while in Angola.
The common meal was funge or pirao, which are corn or manioc based.
www.dghonline.org /nl5/hr-angola.html   (956 words)

  
 Christian News - 30 May 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The team consisted of nine volunteers: Dr Albu van Eeden, CEO of Doctors for Life, and his brother, Dr Nato van Eeden, Rev Thomas Maphanga who translated into Portuguese, Rev Alpheus Mdlalose, Rev George Oche, Johan Claassen, Eugen Olsen, Tom Fouché and their translator for the local languages, Amado.
After one day when we met the local authorities and obtained approval to work in the region, we started work in several refugee camps and villages around the city.
While working in Menongue, the two doctors examined and treated over 270 patients in one day.
www.cft.org.za /news/2005/20050530.htm   (1313 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Humanitarian Situation in Angola - reporting period: 1-15 May 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Part of the main route between Lubango and Menongue was immediately closed after local populations found an anti-tank landmine 30 cm from the roadside.
Huíla Province: On 30 April, the Kuvango - Cutato road, part of the main route between Lubango and Menongue, was immediately closed after local populations found an anti-tank landmine 30 cm from the roadside.
Of the 5,979 people in the Menongue transit centre, 4,794 plan to remain in Kuando Kubango Province, mainly in the Menongue bairros of Kuito Kuanavale and Cuchi.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/9e1c697d9db8926c85256d44006eb4c7   (1488 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2003002501
In Menongue, the head of the CARE mine-clearing project in the Cuando Cubango Province showed me a map in very small scale that occupied an entire wall.
A few days back, a person came to see us because he was remodeling his house, and when the masons started digging in the yard, they discovered eighty-two mortars.
Six-foot cylinders that have not exploded, rusting in the grasses of Menongue, with graffiti in French: JE T'AIME, BRIGITTE!
www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/har051/2003002501.html   (1808 words)

  
 Latest News 201 -- Angola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bible House itself is only a small rented office in the downtown area of Luanda, and efforts have been made over recent years to move some activities elsewhere.
Distribution is now being undertaken from the cities of Benguela and Sumbe on the coast, and Lubango and Menongue in the south.
It has also been possible to establish a translation project in Menongue.
www.biblesociety.org /latestnews/latest201-angola.html   (282 words)

  
 AngolaPress - News
Benguela, 10/10 - The new bishop of Menongue Diocese, Mário Lucunde, was ordained last Sunday, in the south-western Benguela Province, in a ceremony attended by the representative of Pope Benedict XVI in Angola, Ângelo Becciu.
The ordination ceremony took place at Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes Parish, in the outskirts of the city, under the orientation of Benguela Diocese bishop, Oscar Braga, who urged christians to be obedient, above all with God, and have a life with good social conduct.
The swearing in ceremony of bishop Mário Lucunde at Menongue (south-eastern Kuando Kubango province) will take place on Sunday.
www.angolapress-angop.ao /noticia-e.asp?ID=381785   (166 words)

  
 Sub-Saharan Africa
In addition, there are likely to be some refugee returnees, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, who will require support upon their return [OCHA-a Jan-Dec 98].
As Angola became increasingly accessible to humanitarian agencies, high levels of wasting were often found in previously cut-off locations.
For example, a survey carried out in October 1997 in Menongue, Kuando-Kubango Province found 5.0% wasting with 0.7% severe wasting.
www.unsystem.org /scn/archives/rnis23/ch2.htm   (7105 words)

  
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Vaccination campaigns are also underway in Sanza Pombo, Menongue, Londiumbali and Luena in Uige, Cuango Cubango, Huambo and Moxico provinces respectively, where children who have never before been vaccinated can now be reached.
Around half of the deaths from measles occur in African countries.
UNICEF has also begun providing relief supplies including bars of soap and blankets for distribution to families in QFAs in Soba Matias in Menongue, and Peso Velho in Lunda Sul.
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=27956&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=ANGOLA   (497 words)

  
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 Menongue, Angola Weather Forecast
Menongue tempo prévisions météorologiques / previsioni meteo / wettervorhersage / parte meteorológico / weervoorspelling
Menongue 1-3 Day Weather Summary Light rain (total 4mm), mostly falling on Fri morning, Warm (max 31°C on Thu afternoon, min 19°C on Wed night), Wind will be generally light
Light rain (total 2mm), mostly falling on Sat night
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 MSF in the Provinces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 2004, a TB assessment will take place.
In the area of Menongue, MSF runs six health posts serving the resident population and displaced people in the area.
We also provide ongoing support to the paediatric ward and the outpatient department of Menongue provincial hospital.
msfb-angola.org /provinces1-eng.htm   (334 words)

  
 Africa News Service : KUANDO-KUBANGO: 490 BASIC TEACHERS AT SEMINAR @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Menongue, Feb 02, 2004 (Angola Press Agency/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- At least 490 basic education teachers in Menongue district, Angola's southeastern Kuando-Kubango province, are attending as from today an upgrading seminar being run by the Ministry of Education.
The information was supplied by the seminar's main lecturer, Fernando Mulengue.
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