Angola’s 27-year civil war took a brutal toll on the nation’s wildlife herds, once some of the most magnificent in Africa. Angola’s elephants–more than 100,000 of them–were hunted to extinction by ...
This rocket-shattered village on the desolate plains of northern Angola doesn’t look like the front line of an ugly new kind of war in Africa. Everything seems too dismally familiar. The abandoned mud ...
My wife is Portuguese. Actually, she's of mixed Portuguese and Angolan descent. Her mother and father fled Luanda during the first years of the Angolan civil war, and settled in Lisbon. We now live in ...
LUANDA (Reuters) - José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola for nearly four decades, winning a brutal civil war and overseeing an oil-fuelled boom that did little to alleviate poverty, died on Friday ...
JOHANNESBURG — Angola‘s long-running civil war killed off the country’s film industry, but now the violent conflict is the subject of the first local feature to be made in 20 years. Portuguese ...
LUANDA, Angola — A year after elections that were supposed to set Angola on the path to freedom and prosperity, this country is worse off than ever before — worse, some believe, than Somalia or Bosnia ...
MALANGE, Angola – Ten years after the end of the civil war in Angola, the country still remains, despite its best efforts, one of the most unexploded mine-affected countries in the world. The African ...
President Bush called Tuesday for a cease-fire in Angola following the death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, telling President Jose Eduardo dos Santos to "seize this moment" to end 26 years of war. The ...
Angola, the world’s third-largest coffee grower before independence from Portugal in 1975, will produce the same amount of beans this year as in 2012 after a drought restrained output, the National ...