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	Photos of Angola by Paul Jeffrey/ACT International
		A displaced woman in the village of Luchazes in Moxico province.
		On the road: The route from Luena to Lucusse in Moxico province, like many roads throughout the country, is littered by the debris of war.
		The wife of a UNITA combatant in a deemobilization camp at Lucusse in Moxico province.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /honduras/photos/angola/index2.html (1492 words)

	Moxico (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moxico is a province of the African nation of Angola.
		Moxico is best known as the birthplace of UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi.
		Moxico later served as one Savimbi's main bases of operations during the Angolan Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moxico_(province) (95 words)

	LSN - Landmine Survivors Network
		In the western Benguela province, "roughly 22,000 people are considered vulnerable in eight areas where humanitarian partners have no access due to broken bridges, road conditions and the threat of mines in eight isolated areas".
		Around 1,500 people from Munhango, in the deeply rural Kuemba municipality in the central province of Bie, have reportedly left the area to seek humanitarian assistance in neighbouring Moxico province to the east.
		In the southern province of Kuando Kubango, Angolan authorities have registered 98 minefields, excluding areas that are inaccessible or still unsurveyed.
	www.landminesurvivors.org /news_article.php?id=328 (353 words)

	Angola's Embassy
		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.
		To the north, the province is flanked by Malange; to the north-east, Lunda Sul; to the east, Moxico; to the south-west, Huila; to the east, Huambo; to the north-west, Kwanza Sul and to the south, the province of Kuando Kubango.
		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.
	www.angolaemb.se /angola/provinces/bie.htm (358 words)

	My Trip to Moxico and Angolan History (Part I) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Moxico was the most tortured province during the war.
		All the images you got from Angola, watching children starving, it was in Moxico, precisely in the camps of Luau, a few kilometres from the border with Zambia.
		It was in Moxico that Savimbi died, in Lukusse, one hundred and 133 kms from Lwena.
	www.davestravelcorner.com /journals/publish/article_11.shtml (3687 words)

	Angola: Peace Monitor, VI, 3
		FAA has surrounded a large number of UNITA fighters in the Cazombo area of Moxico province, and is reportedly bombarding the area with artillery and jet bombers.
		On 18 November the town of Cuangar in Cuando Cubango province in the south of the country was retaken by FAA, which states that 400 UNITA fighters posed little resistance before surrendering.
		A survey in the town of Matala in Huila province by the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF-Spain) found that 13 percent of the population was close to death by starvation.
	www.africaaction.org /docs99/ang9911.htm (2859 words)

	Growfish - Gippsland Aquaculture Industry Network (GAIN)
		A United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO) delegation is since this morning in eastern Moxico province, to visit the facilities of aquaculture and potential fishing areas in the region.
		Headed by Mulonga Kalende, expert in brackish water and marine aquaculture, the mission has as objective to lecture the basic training in marine aquaculture to Angolan technicians and prepare the trip to overseas of the Institute of Artisanal fishery staff.
		Apart of Moxico province, the task team, that will stay in the Southern African country until September 7th, will also move to far northern Cabinda province, with the same purpose.
	www.growfish.com.au /content.asp?ContentId=4868 (136 words)

	U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Programs: Africa
		Eight of Angola’s 18 provinces are heavily mined, including Moxico, Malange, Kuando-Kubago and Bie, covering nearly 50 percent of the country in a band from the northwest border with the Congo to the southeast border with Namibia.
		Following 2002 demining operations in the Province of Moxico, a water pumping station is again operational, providing Luena’s population of more than 120,000 residents with access to potable water.
		Although landmines are found in all of Mozambique’s provinces, the most heavily mined regions are in the north, along the Zimbabwean border, and in Zambezia, Tete, Maputo and Inhambane Provinces.
	state.gov /t/pm/rls/rpt/walkearth/2004/37227.htm (6311 words)

	IDPs increase steadily as army 'clean-up' rolls on (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Expectations for the next few weeks is that there will be a continuing influx of people from the southern part of Moxico province," an OCHA source said on Friday.
		According to the WFP report, the province of Cuando Cubango, on the border with Namibia, was unstable from 14-21 January.
		"The security situation in the province during the reporting week remained unstable due to the large movement of troops reported northeast of the provincial capital Menongue," the report said.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=20066 (605 words)

	Angolan Army Hunting Down Rebel Leader Savimbi - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		A UNITA defector informed the Angolan government Savimbi was in Cangamba, in the eastern province of Moxico.
		According to a UNITA rebel, Delfim Tchombe, which is currently interrogated by Angolan authorities in Luanda, rebel leader Savimbi is based in the Cangamba region in Moxico province, within Angola.
		The same military sources told Lusa that Savimbi, in addition to the military forces protecting him, also seeks protection among the civilian population, which he "forces to accompany him during his movements through the field." This presence of civilians is complicating an attack by the Armed Forces on Savimbi, the source told Lusa.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/angola/2001/0403sav.htm (592 words)

	UNIFEED
		Across the border, in Luau town, Moxico province, the scars of war are still fresh.
		Moxico bore the brunt of some of the war’s heaviest fighting and its people have paid a heavy price.
		Angola’s health and education sectors are in ruin after years of war and neglect and in most cases the social services that refugees enjoyed in the camps are vastly superior to those that await them on return.
	www.un.org /unifeed/script.asp?scriptId=61 (887 words)

	USAID Humanitarian Assistance: War Victims Fund Country Programs - Angola
		In 1996, the LWVF began a partnership with Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation to expand orthopedic assistance to underserved and isolated eastern regions of the country.
		With the cease fire and peace accords holding, the LWVF has consolidated the investments made to date, and is focusing its ongoing efforts on the long-term sustainability of rehabilitation services in the region.
		The Moxico Regional Rehabilitation Center is currently being integrated into the National Rehabilitation Program with core operational costs and staff salaries assumed by the Ministry of Health.
	www.usaid.gov /our_work/humanitarian_assistance/the_funds/lwvf/angola.html (456 words)

	AEGiS-IRIN: Angola: Youth Centres to Highlight HIV/Aids Awareness
		The centre in the central Huambo province is expected to be operational later this month.
		The main goal of the centres is to raise HIV/AIDS awareness among the country's youth - almost 70 percent of the population is under 24 years old - and prevent the southwest African country from suffering the same fate as many of its neighbours.
		UNICEF now has centres in almost half of Angola's 18 provinces, and although around 10,000 youth are registered and a further 250,000 benefit from the outreach projects in schools, churches, and other community meeting points, only a tiny fraction of the country's young population are being reached.
	www.aegis.com /news/irin/2004/IR040418.html (569 words)

	FTR/UN 2001 Security Council-Pages 1--11
		The attack on a civilian train in Kwanza Norte province for which UNITA claimed responsibility is an indication of a serious deterioration in the human rights situation.
		Recognizing the fragility of the institutions of the judicial system, the Government has requested that UNOA expand its human rights activities to the provinces with a view to ensuring the protection of its citizens who are subject to regular violations of their basic rights.
		Although some populations with access to agricultural land benefited from the harvest in April and May, the Rapid Assessment found that the overwhelming majority of displaced persons did not have access to adequate land and were unable to cultivate sufficient quantities of food stocks to cover basic food requirements.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2001/documentation/security/s-2001-956.htm (6331 words)

	ANGOLA NATIONAL PRIVATE INVESTMENT AGENCY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Currently, the working brigades are engaged in the connection between the Benguela province`s Lobito port city with Huambo, the source said.
		He said that most of the material and equipment purchased by CFB for the rehabilitation of the railway are already in the country.
		With 1.165 kilometres of length, CFB stretches from the coastal Benguela province up to the locality of Luau in far eastern Moxico province that borders with neighbouring Republic of Zambia.
	www.iie-angola-us.org /full_headlines.php?id=35 (303 words)

	MAG: Demining in Angola -- Setting the stage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MAG worked in different parts of Moxico province from 1993 until 1998, when deteriorating security made demining impossible and MAG had to cease operations.
		At the end of 2000, an estimated 400,000 Angolans were refugees in neighbouring countries, and 5,000 sought asylum in Europe.
		The Luanda government regained control over much of the country during 2000, and humanitarian agencies were able to work in every province by the end of the year.
	www.digitalstoryteller.com /MAGNMNP/background.htm (972 words)

	Dateline ACT
		Chilombo fled her village of Samalenque in the eastern province of Moxico in 1994 and hid in the bush for three years, eating wild leaves and roots to survive.
		ACT/LWF is assisting 15,000 displaced families in the war-torn eastern provinces of Moxico and Lunda Sul.
		According to Moises Gourgel, the ACT/LWF coordinator for Moxico, the displaced families arrive at the emergency settlements devastated by their experiences.
	www.act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2002/dtang0802.html (856 words)

	Africa
		Eight of Angola’s 18 provinces are heavily mined, including Moxico, Malange, Kuando-Kubago, and Bie, covering nearly 50 percent of the country in a band from the northwest border with the Congo to the southeast border with Namibia.
		Although landmines are found in all of Mozambique’s provinces, the most heavily mined regions are in the north, along the Zimbabwean border, Zambezia in Tete Province, and in Maputo and Inhambane Provinces.
		of land in five provinces, stretching from Mwinilunga bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Northwestern Province, and continuing along its western borders to Lundazi in the Eastern Province.
	www.state.gov /t/pm/rls/rpt/walkearth/2002/14869.htm (6913 words)

	ANGOLA, Landmine Monitor Report 2001
		In Moxico province there is evidence that in February and March 2001, UNITA rebels planted mines in Cangumbe, Ngombe and Chito 1 during their military operations, resulting in two accidents leaving four injured and one dead, respectively.
		The provinces recording the highest number of casualties were Malange with 172, followed by Moxico with 132, Bie with 113, and Uige with 106.
		On 15 July 2001, the governor of the southern Angolan province of Cunene, Pedro Mutinde, was seriously injured in a landmine explosion in the Humbe region, located in the central part of the province.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2001/angola (6359 words)

	Angola - OCHA: 03-12.Jun.98
		Bengo Province Quibaxe: On 10 June, NGOs reported that at 7-8 km from Quibaxe on the road towards Coxe, there were clashes between FAA and URF where mortar explosions were heard and injured persons have arrived at the Quibaxe hospital.
		Huila Province SBF reported that on 4 June, on the main Matala-Kuvango road between Dongo and Cului, a private truck was ambushed by armed men killing six persons and injuring other 16 who are in Matala hospital.
		Ganda, Benguela Province: A joint MINARS, UCAH, ACF, OXFAM, SCF-UK, CVA and Okutiuka assessment mission, is underway from 10-12 June in Ganda to evaluate basic conditions of IDPs.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/98a/0040.html (1287 words)

	UNICEF - Angola - Passport to a better future in Angola
		Juanita was born in 1987, in a small village near Katchiungo, in Angola’s Huambo province.
		At the end of March, the Ministry of Justice finally secured almost US$400,000 from the state budget, to be used primarily to expand the programme in three provinces and provide training, transport, salaries and logistical support for the Catholic church and conservatórias in each province.
		Despite the progress to date, birth registration is not yet routine in hospitals, primary schools or in women’s groups.
	www.unicef.org /infobycountry/angola_6584.html?q=printme (674 words)

	ANGOLA, Landmine Monitor Report 2002
		On 22 February 2002, UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi was killed by government forces in Moxico Province.
		In Moxico province in 2001, MAG cleared and destroyed 146 mines and 3,201 items of UXO, clearing 30,748 square meters of land.
		The provinces recording the highest number of incidents were Malange with 23 percent of reported incidents, Uíge 15 percent, Moxico 14 percent, Kuando Kubango 10 percent, and Huambo Province with 9 percent.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2002/angola.html (8117 words)

	July 5, 2002: MAG Opens Main Road from Luena, Moxico Province, Angola Allowing Aid to be Distributed to Thousands of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Lucusse Road between Luena and Lucusse in Moxico province in eastern Angola has been the scene of heavy fighting for decades.
		There was fighting many years ago between Cuban and South African forces and over much of the last decade between the government and forces of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
		MAG is proud that mine action can play its role and is grateful to all those parties in Angola and to its donors for enabling such progressive and positive outcomes.
	maic.jmu.edu /Journal/6.2/focus/timcarstairs/timcarstairs2.htm (638 words)

	ang011 Angolan Government notes major military success
		On September 25, the FAA recaptured the strategic town of Cazombo, near the Angolan-Zambian border.
		Moxico is Angola's largest province covering three quarters of Angola's eastern border with Zambia.
		In the diamond rich Lunda provinces, the reported successes of the Angolan Army in Luvala and other areas in the Kuilo district in Lunda Norte province, and in Ebo in Kwanza-Sul province have virtually eliminated UNITA from the area.
	www.afrol.com /News/ang011_govt_victories.htm (1057 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Unita commander 'killed' in Angola
		A general from the Unita rebel movement has been killed and other senior officers captured in south-eastern Angola, according to government forces.
		General Galiano Da Silva e Sousa was killed when government troops destroyed a number of rebel military bases in Angola's eastern Moxico province, 700 kilometres south-east of Luanda
		Unita leader Dr Jonas Savimbi is believed to be part of a column that is moving through Moxico province towards the Zambian border, after losing his strongholds in central Angola.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1827480.stm (241 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 Minister was in Moxico Province to inaugurate a bridge over the Lungue Bungo River, 90 km from the provincial capital Luena, which had been built by a military engineering company.
		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 (11747 words)

	MSF-USA: 2005 Activity Report - Angola
		In June 2005, in Caala, a city in Huambo province, MSF transferred its support of 13 health posts — along with a six month supply of medicines and rapid testing kits — to the ministry of health.
		MSF operated a sleeping sickness project in Caxito, the capital of Bengo province, and in Camabatela, a municipality in Cuanza Norte province.
		Teams in Luau, Moxico province provided assistance to refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia by carrying out screenings and consultations, health education and water and sanitation services until September 2005, when these activities were transferred to government authorities.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /publications/ar/i2005/angola.cfm (1147 words)

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