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africanews
April 28, 2018
The younger dos Santos has been charged with fraud against Angola's central bank, involving the transfer of $500 million in Britain. Dos Santos is the highest-profile figure to be investigated for corruption since President Joao Lourenco took power last September, vowing to combat years of endemic graft inÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 28, 2018
According to the coordinator, the success of the campaign owed to the engagement by Municipal Administrators, Health teams, volunteers as well as the staff of the Angola Armed Forces (FAA) and National Police. Speaking to Angop, Felismina Neto pledged to increase the vaccination teams on SaturdayÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
April 28, 2018
The clash overwhelmed the South African government, which was eventually forced to relinquish its grip on southern Angola and accept Namibian independence. These concessions, in time, helped bring about the end of apartheid rule. Besides a decisive battle, Cuito Cuanavale also represents aÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 27, 2018
Luanda — The Angolan President, Joao Lourenco, on Thursday urged the Minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation to create the conditions for holding elections in all public universities and their organizational units, starting in the academic year 2019. According to a note from theÃâà...
Nasdaq
April 27, 2018
By Sudip Roy. LONDON, April 27 (IFR) - Angola is meeting investors ahead of what would be only the second international bond from the oil-rich African sovereign. Officials are marketing the country to accounts in New York, Boston and London ahead of a 10-year US dollar bond and potentially a trancheÃâà...
Eyewitness News
March 26, 2018
OKANAUTONI, Angola – Apart from a few packs of medicine and plastic jars, the shelves at the Okanautoni health centre in southern Angola are bare and lack basic drugs for saving lives. Hours from the nearest town in Cunene province, the clinic has no first-line tuberculosis drugs, no antiretrovirals for HIVÃâà...
The Zimbabwe Standard
March 26, 2018
The Warriors ended the Zambia Four Nations football tournament without a win after they lost 4-2 on penalties to Angola following a two-all draw in a third and fourth play-off in Ndola, Zambia, yesterday. BY SPORTS REPORTER. Last Wednesday Sunday Chidzambwa's men fell to hosts Zambia 5-4 onÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
March 26, 2018
Apart from a few packs of medicine and plastic jars, the shelves at the Okanautoni health centre in southern Angola are bare and lack basic drugs for saving lives. Hours from the nearest town in Cunene province, the clinic has no first-line tuberculosis drugs, no antiretrovirals for HIV, no general antibioticsÃâà...
KickOff.com
March 24, 2018
Angola managed to restore parity just before the half-time break. Talent Chawapiwa restored Zimbabwe's lead 10 minutes into the second half with his second goal of the tournament. However, Nikolai leveled matters for the Angolans on 90 minutes and the game was to be decided by a penalty shoot-out.
Macauhub
March 23, 2018
The African Development Bank (AfDB) currently has a funding portfolio of US$797 million for nine projects in Angola. According to Angolan state news agency Angop, of this portfolio of projects, 54.9% are for the financial sector, 15.1% for agriculture, 14.2% for water and sanitation, 10.3% for the socialÃâà...
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
It is the 30th anniversary this week of the largest conventional armed battle in Africa since the second world war, between the Angola government and Cuban forces against the apartheid South African Defence Force and its rebel allies at Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola. This was a watershed battleÃâà...
Platts
March 22, 2018
A lack of enthusiasm in Angola's upstream prospects, coupled with a steady decline in oil output, means the country's boom days could be numbered unless it can ... Angola's oil production has been on the wane in the past few years, with a plethora of fields that are mature and in decline and a lack of newÃâà...
Monroe News Star
March 21, 2018
An employee shakedown at Louisiana's most famous prison has revealed guards having sex with inmates and smuggling drugs into the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. One guard even had an offender's name tattooed on her arm and her name was tattooed on his, Louisiana CorrectionsÃâà...
WGNO
March 20, 2018
ANGOLA, La. — Deputies in West Feliciana Parish have arrested several Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola employees since Saturday. According to a news release from the state Department of Corrections, the allegations range from having inappropriate relationships with offenders, drug smuggling,Ãâà...
defenceWeb
March 8, 2018
Angola's government forced 530 Congolese to return to Congo between February 25 and 27, UNHCR said in a statement. Of those sent back, 480 were ... “Continuing instability poses a grave risk to civilian safety, including for several hundred refugees recently returned from Angola,” it said. “UNHCR urgesÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 8, 2018
Luena — The official was speaking at the arrival ceremony of the inaugural train carrying 50 containers, with 1000 tons of manganese from Kasenge in Democratic Republic of Congo. He argued that the CFB will contribute to the transformation of the economic model in which economic diversification,Ãâà...
OilPrice.com
March 8, 2018
Angola has been OPEC's second most compliant member with regard to the 2016 oil production cut deal, but just like the number-one compliant member, Venezuela, this prestige does not come from the country's willingness to help bring down global supply of crude, at least not entirely. Angola's oil fieldsÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 8, 2018
Luanda — Angola?s 1Ãâú de Agosto intend to score as many goals as possible and to concede none ,when they face South Africa?s Bidvest Wits this Wednesday, in Luanda, for the first-leg of the African Champion Clubs Cup group stage qualifiers. The team, that beat Platinum of Zimbabwe (3-0 and 2-1), areÃâà...
Eyewitness News
March 8, 2018
Angola's government forced 530 Congolese to return to Congo between 25 February and 27, UNHCR said in a statement on Tuesday. Of those sent back, 480 were unregistered refugees staying at the Cacanda centre managed by aid agencies in the frontier town of Dundo, the statement said. “ContinuingÃâà...
Times LIVE
March 7, 2018
Heavy rains, filthy conditions, medicine shortages and endemic corruption have combined to make a lethal malarial cocktail for Angola. Since the start of the year more than 300,000 cases of the disease have been reported across the country, leading to at least a thousand deaths. The toll, say experts, is aÃâà...
Voice of America
March 6, 2018
Some critics of the government say little has really changed in Angola. This week, prominent human rights activist and journalist Rafael Marques de Morais appeared in a Luanda court over charges relating to a 2016 story he wrote alleging corrupt acts by the nation's former attorney-general. Marques hasÃâà...
The Advocate
March 3, 2018
The Rev. Billy Graham, an internationally revered Christian evangelist who died last week, was buried in a casket crafted by inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Earlier this week Franklin Graham shared an inside look at how that came to be, including interviews with the late Richard Liggett,Ãâà...
News24
March 3, 2018
She was removed from the job in November last year by Angola's new president Joao Lourenco who has reversed several of his predecessor's appointments. Sonangol announced last December that it had opened an internal inquiry after discovering suspicious financial transfers with a value of tens ofÃâà...
africanews
March 3, 2018
“I chose to visit Angola because the relationship between Angola and South Africa is a very special one. It is a very historic relationship that is steeped in struggle, our own struggle, where we as South Africans received a lot of support from Angola. So Angola contributed a great deal to our freedom,” saidÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 2, 2018
The Rev. Billy Graham, who died last week (Feb. 21) at age 99, was buried in a casket built in 2006 by inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. How did that come to be? In a video posted on social media by son Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's grandson Roy Graham explained: "We were downÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 2, 2018
Luanda — France aims to help Angola in the process of economic diversification, taking into account the existing cooperation relations between the two countries, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday in Luanda. During official talks between Angolan and French delegations, as part ofÃâà...
CNBCAfrica.com
March 2, 2018
LUANDA, March 2 (Reuters) – Angola has offered investors diamond exploration licenses that previously belonged to Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the former president, according to a video clip of a closed-door meeting with mining companies seen by Reuters. During the meeting at a mining conferenceÃâà...
eNCA
March 1, 2018
JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity as chair of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), will undertake working visits to Luanda in Angola, Gaborone in Botswana and Windhoek in Namibia, the Presidency said. His spokesperson Tyrone Seale said RamaphosaÃâà...
Eyewitness News
December 31, 1999
LUANDA - Britain's National Crime Agency said on Monday $500 million frozen in the UK as part of an ongoing investigation into a potential fraud against Angola's central bank can be returned to the southern African country. “The necessary authority has now been provided for the monies to be returned toÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Angola's first satellite has been officially declared defunct by Russia, which had partially funded the West African nation's space project. The AngoSat-1, a communications satellite built for almost $300m, was launched late December from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Shortly after launchÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
The finance ministry said that Filomeno dos Santos disguised the transfer as a project aimed at attracting investment in Angola with the help of a fake guarantee from Credit Suisse. Luanda said $500m had been transferred to a London bank and that Angola was supposed to make two more such payments.
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