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  Angola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angola is a country in southwestern Africa bordering Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.
Angola is bordered by Namibia to the south, Zambia to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north-east, and the South Atlantic Ocean to the west.
Angola is divided into an arid coastal strip stretching from Namibia to Luanda; a wet, interior highland; a dry savanna in the interior south and southeast; and rain forest in the north and in Cabinda.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angola   (1829 words)

  
 Angola - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Angola is a country in southwestern Africa bordering Namibia, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville and Zambia and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.
The name Angola is a Portuguese derivation of the Bantu word N’gola, being the title of the native rulers of the region in the 16th century, at the time of colonization by the Portuguese.
Despite the increase in the pace of civil warfare in late 1998, the economy grew by an estimated 4% in 1999.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /angola.htm   (1506 words)

  
 SPECIAL REPORT: Angola - 17 May   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Angola's GDP increased by an average of 4.5 percent between 1994 and 1999 according to IMF estimates.
Provinces in the Southern Region are all expected to give yields that are equal to, or higher than, last year's yields, and in the Northern Region some provinces are expected to show an increase while others are expected to show a reduction.
In most of the Northern and Central provinces livestock is limited to relatively small numbers of goats, pigs and chickens, largely as a result of the continuing conflict and the consequent risk of theft but also because of the prevalence of tick-borne diseases in these areas.
www.fao.org /docrep/004/x7253e/x7253e00.htm   (7772 words)

  
 Inene's Angola Homepage.
Angola is situated on the south of the Equator in the Western region of Southern Africa.
The location of Angola in the inter-tropical and sub-tropical region of the South hemisphere, the nearness to the sea, the cold stream of Benguela and the relief features are factors that determine and characterize two different regions concerning the climate.
The first was founder of the Angola Nation, Agostinho Neto; the second is Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the current President of Angola who became Head of State in 1979 being the youngest President in the continent.
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 Angola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After a long war with Portuguese colonial forces, Angola became independent in 1975.
In 1991, both factions agreed to turn Angola into a multiparty state but after the current president José Eduardo dos Santos of MPLA won UN supervised elections, UNITA claimed there was a fraud and fighting broke out again.
Angola is divided into 18 provinces: Bengo, Benguela, Bié, Cabinda, Cuando Cubango, Cuanza Norte, Cuanza Sul, Cunene, Huambo, Huila, Luanda, Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul, Malanje, Moxico, Namibe, Uige, and Zaire.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/a/an/angola.html   (357 words)

  
 Special Report: Angola - 19 June 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The capital city province is not a major agricultural area but 8 500 families are in farming and are estimated to cultivate 9 500 hectares of land.
As with the northern provinces the first planted crops were a virtual write-off because of the drought, but the problem was also compounded by excessive rains and flooding which finished off the little that has survived.
Maize, millet and sorghum, and cassava are the main staple foods in Angola though with differing relative importance according to regions (cassava in the north and northeast, maize in the central highlands and millet/sorghum in the south).
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 Angola article - Angola Africa Namibia Congo-Kinshasa Congo-Brazzaville Zambia Luanda - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Republic of Angola is a country in southwestern Africa bordering Namibia, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville and Zambia.
Among Angola's major problems are a serious humanitarian crisis (a result of the prolonged war), the abundance of mine fields, and the actions of guerrilla movements fighting for the independence of the northern enclave of Cabinda.
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www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Angola   (380 words)

  
 afrol News - Angola reconstructs railways for US$ 4 billion
The railway network of Angola, before the destructions of war, was of importance to the regional network, providing an outlet to the coast from Lusaka (Zambia) via Lubumbashi in southern Congo.
Angola has about 2,700 kilometres of railways, but only about 850 kilometres - or one third - of the existing network is now operational.
Railroad segments in Angola's southern provinces Benguela and Namibe are currently being repaired under the same programme, according to the government's Agência Nacional para o Investimento Privado (ANIP).
www.afrol.com /articles/14973   (532 words)

  
 ZNet | Africa | Angola The Crisis You Aren't Hearing About
Out of sight of the world, a humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions is unfolding in Angola, as perhaps hundreds of thousands of people flee the "grey zones", the 90% of the country which have until now been closed to outsiders, including humanitarian aid agencies and even civilian medical structures.
Some of the agency's workers believe the crisis in Angola is the among the worst they have dealt with in a decade.
The break-up of UNITA presents the best chance Angola has had in a generation for peace and development, but that won't happen without the help of the international community: first, to end the present humanitarian crisis and then to rein in those who would plunder the country's wealth.
www.zmag.org /content/Africa/healy_angola.cfm   (1328 words)

  
 Angola, 1989-1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To begin with, a UN Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM-1) was established by the Security Council in 1988 to certify the northward redeployment and withdrawal of the 50,000-strong Cuban contingent.
The unit was deployed in Angola's northern region for peace-keeping.
In Angola, the UN was a peripheral participant in a settlement drawn up by others, with an inadequate mandate and operating with insufficient personnel, on a shoestring budget.
www.bharat-rakshak.com /PEACE/Angola.html   (343 words)

  
 Angola Provinces
Angola was an overseas province of Portugal until its independence on 1975-11-11.
According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Angola is divided into five districts: four on the coast, the fifth, Lunda, wholly inland, being the N.E. part of the province.
The coast divisions of Angola are Congo on the N. (from the river Congo to the river Loje),...
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 Angola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Angola is emerging from twenty years of war, physical destruction and a social, economic and financial crisis.
UNICEF has been providing support to the Government of Angola to develop a number of programmes, including rehabilitation and construction, extension and support to health units, improvement of water and sanitation facilities and the creation of a strategic health planning capacity within the framework of the community rehabilitation and national reconciliation programme.
Minor rehabilitation was undertaken in the provinces of Malange and Kwanza Norte in 1999, and all architectural and engineering drawings for the research centre as well as the tender documents were prepared.
www.unchs.org /offices/roaas/angola.asp   (1158 words)

  
 Portuguese Angola
Angola was discovered by the Portuguese mariner Diogo Cao in 1483 and became one of Europe's first colonies in sub-Saharan Africa.
For the same reason, Portuguese overseas provinces did not have flags of their own: the Portuguese flag was official for all the usual purposes.
In the 1920s stamps were issued separately for Angola and for Portuguese Congo (this last colony consisting of Cabinda and Zaïre provinces, Zaïre lying to the south of the Congo River mouth).
www.fotw.net /flags/ao-pt.html   (519 words)

  
 Angola
On April 15, UNITA forces attacked Dombe-Grande in Benguela province and looted a warehouse holding relief supplies of humanitarian organizations; 7 persons were killed and 50 were missing after the attack and remained unaccounted for at year's end.
The provinces most affected during the year were Kwanza Norte, Malange, Bie, and Moxico, although UNITA also increased raids on or near the coastal areas.
The governor of Malange province reportedly moved displaced populations that were suspected of sympathizing with UNITA into villages that were located in the path of oncoming rebel attacks.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8217.htm   (16129 words)

  
 International Medical Corps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
While Angola's newly improved political climate has enabled humanitarian workers to reach areas that had previously gone months, and in some cases years, without significant humanitarian assistance, health conditions for millions of Angolans in these areas and throughout the country remain dire.
Children in Angola face a 35 per cent greater risk to their health and well being than children elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The challenge is significant: infant mortality (172 of every 1,000 live births) and child mortality (295 of every 1,000 live births) rates in Angola are among the highest in the world.
www.imc-la.com /programs/angola.html   (281 words)

  
 Angola - Definition of Angola - Angola in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
While Angola made progress in bringing inflation down further, from over 300% in 2000 to about 110% in 2001, the government has failed to make sufficient progress on reforms recommended by the IMF, such as increasing foreign exchange reserves and promoting greater transparency in government spending.
Angola's GDP could be among the world's fastest growing in 2002 if oil production from the Girassol field, which began production in December 2001, reaches 200,000 barrels per day as expected.
Headwords: Angola, NY Angola --- [from ] --- :Angola, IN -- U.S. city in Indiana : Population (2000): 7344 Housing Units (2000): 3012 Land area (2000): 4.229491 sq.
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 Angola News Online (8) - 1/14/98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Angola has a sole oil refinery which is based in Luanda, in operation since 1958, but the government recently gave the green light for the construction, and by a foreign firm, of a new refinery in the port city of Lobito in central Benguela province.
Angola's joint commission (JC,) which is in charge of the ongoing peace process, has set February 28 this year as a new deadline for all outstanding tasks on the 1994 Lusaka peace agreement to be fully implemented.
Angola's air company TAAG recently announced that financial obligations with other countries' airlines were in 1997 lowered to $1.5 million after a "clearing house international" of $3.5 million in 1996 and $7 million in 1994.
www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Newsletters/angno8.html   (2271 words)

  
 Provinces Of Angola - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Feasibility study on rehabilitation support to the health sector in Malanje Province, Angola
Report of a review mission, 6-20 May 1989: Programme of Assistance to Displaced Persons, Huila Province, Angola, of the State Secretariat for Social Affairs...
The decision to stay: The prime minister's reply to the tribute paid to him by the province of Angola on 13 April 1966
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /provinces_of_angola.htm   (132 words)

  
 Landmines: The Scourge of Angola
Angola has one of the highest rates of landmine injuries per capita in the world.
On November 11, 1975 Angola won independence, but found itself subject to the legacy of a fourteen year war: the countryside was littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance.
In Angola, landmines terrorize the population, cause death and terrible injuries, and prevent economic and social progress; until landmines are cleared the prospects for recovery from years of warfare are bleak.
www.aeaf.org /papers/1997-11-ian-feinhandler.htm   (652 words)

  
 Angola: January - October 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
All 18 provinces of Angola are covered by the ICRC, either through the sub-delegations or by field delegates travelling from Luanda on a regular basis.
Furthermore, vegetable seed kits were distributed to 10'000 families in the province of Bié and to 42'000 families in the province of Huambo.
Furthermore, in the provinces of Huambo, Bié and Uige, the ICRC supports 12 Primary Health Care centres and promotes HIV/AIDS preventive action for a range of 300'000 beneficiaries, in collaboration with the national Red Cross Society (CVA) and the Ministry of Health.
www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList204/5F171461031F93AA41256CA3004A55EF   (786 words)

  
 Africa
Angola remained one of the U.S. administration's Africa priorities in 1995, but only after detailed debate in the House of Representatives and the Senate over funding.
Angola is seen by the administration as a special case for Africa because it represents the last piece in a regional settlement in which the U.S. has had significant economic and diplomatic investment.
According to U.S. officials, Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency monitoring of Angola was expanded in 1995, with evidence of Lusaka Protocol violations, especially weapons shipments, sometimes being presented through diplomatic channels to the government or UNITA for explanation and caution.
www.hrw.org /reports/1996/WR96/Africa-01.htm   (2674 words)

  
 Kongo
Because of the civil war Kongo people are scattered throughout Angola; however, their population is still concentrated in the North West provinces.
The Kongo region of Angola was the fount of independence struggle of the Angolans against the Portuguese.
The over 400 years of Portuguese contact and the 22 years of civil war since Angola gained its independence from Portugal have caused the Kongo to lose a good deal of their traditional culture.
cesa.imb.org /peoplegroups/Kongo.htm   (1178 words)

  
 Angola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angola is a country in southwestern Africa bordering Namibia, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zambia, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.
the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola MPLA), with a base among and the mixed-race intelligentsia of Luanda, and links to communist parties in Portugal and the Eastern Bloc;
Angola Press (http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/) government-controlled news agency (in Portuguese, French and English)
www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Angola   (1618 words)

  
 Cabinda - Notes on a soon-to-be-forgotter war - Paper 77, August 2003
The government of Angola considers… that it is indispensable to extend the climate of peace achieved in the whole territory and hence to keep its firm commitment of finding a peaceful solution to the issue of Cabinda, within the Constitutional legality in force, taking into account the interests of the country and the local population.
Angola’s off-shore is considered a “world-class” area for oil production, with some two-thirds of exploration wells striking oil, compared to a 50% success rate for Nigeria’s deep offshore and a global average of around 15%… Angola’s oil production for 2000 remained at approximately 750,000 barrels per day.
Later, in the course of Angola’s turbulent decolonisation process, Ranque Franque proclaimed the independence of the “Republic of Cabinda”; in Kampala on 1 August 1975 at an OAU summit which was discussing Angola at that precise moment.
www.iss.co.za /pubs/papers/77/Paper77.html   (11735 words)

  
 Provinces of Angola - History of Luanda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the twentieth century, with developments in education and the later establishment of the Salvador Correia High School, the first of its kind in Angola, there was a period of considerable cultural mixing between Europeans, their African born descendants, and native fl Africans.
Besides the above-mentioned monuments, one of Angola's most famous landmarks is the National Bank of Angola building, a most amazing example of colonial architecture.
Beyond the river is Quissama, the location of one of Angola's National parks.
www.angola.org.uk /prov_luanda_history.htm   (1709 words)

  
 Angola - Global AIDS Program (GAP)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
However, the reporting system in Angola needs an in-depth review, as there may be discrepancies due to armed conflicts, difficulties in communications, and the general weaknesses of the government structures.
Bilateral cooperation between the government of Angola and the United States is relatively recent.
In addition, Angola's border provinces, which have a higher HIV/AIDS prevalence rate than those in the center of the country, are difficult to access, and a referral system from the provinces to the major cities is almost non-existent.
www.cdc.gov /nchstp/od/gap/countries/angola.htm   (602 words)

  
 Angola Provinces Numbered 300px Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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