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| | ENERGY-SAO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE: 'Promised Land' Beckons, Under the Sea |
 | | During a late October visit to Angola, the prime minister of Sao Tomé and Príncipe, Tomé de Vera Cruz, announced that Angola would participate in exploiting oil in the economic exclusion zone, at present shared between Nigeria and his country, through partnerships between their respective state companies. |
 | | Sao Tomé and Príncipe is an island paradise, made up of its two main islands and the islets of Gago Coutinho, R- las, Las Cabras, Santana, Sete Pedras, Tinhosas, Mosteiros, Bombom, Pedra da Galé and Boné do Jockey. |
 | | With the decline of agriculture, Sao Tomé and Príncipe became basically a concentration camp for slaves, most of them on their way to Brazil or to be sold to the English, Spanish, French and Dutch for their colonies in the Americas, until slavery was abolished in the islands in 1876. |
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