Angola News

Oil prices hovered above $73 a barrel Monday in Asia ahead of an OPEC meeting where investors expect the cartel to keep production levels unchanged.

OPEC will keep supply unchanged when it meets on Tuesday in Angola, Algeria's Energy Minister Chakib Khelil said on Sunday.

The Catholic University of Angola intends to establish a Faculty of Theology in short time.

Crude prices spiked briefly Friday after Iranian troops crossed into Iraq and seized an oil field.

Oil prices rose above $73 a barrel Friday in Asia amid expectations OPEC plans to leave production levels unchanged at its meeting next week.

The Huaxi Group Company and Haishan International Construction Company from China's Sichuan province on Thursday kicked off the first-stage construction of the social housing project in the Camama district of southern Luanda, one of the largest housing projects in the African country.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will agree to closely watch market conditions and improve compliance when they meet in Angola's capital Luanda Tuesday but they will not change their official quotas, Qatar's oil minister said Thursday.

Angolan police arrested two journalists on Sunday for taking a picture at a soccer stadium in the country's northern province of Cabinda where some of the games for the Africa Cup of Nations will take place next year.

Close You asked. We're building it. TAREK EL-TABLAWY CAIRO - The Associated Press Published on Tuesday, Dec.

The Angolan and U.S. governments on Monday signed an agreement to establish a resident consultant from the U.S. treasury department in Luanda to help the African country to improve its bond-issuing and debt management systems.

Luanda, Dec 11 Cuban Communist Party Central Committee Political Bureau member Leopoldo Cintra Frias voiced satisfaction with the invitation to the 6th Congress of Angola's MPLA Party.

Angola poll set to be shelved By Richard Lapper in Luanda December 11 2009 16:50 JosA© Eduardo dos Santos, Angola's president for the past 30 years, has provided the strongest indication yet that long-expected presidential elections will be delayed until 2012.

Luanda, Dec 8 Cuban Communist Party Political Bureau member Leopoldo Cintras Frias stressed Tuesday in this capital the unshakable friendship between the peoples of Cuba and Angola, started by historic leaders Antonio Agostinho Neto and Fidel Castro.

Pope Benedict on Saturday urged Catholics in Angola, where a belief in spirits and sorcerers has led many to abandon the Church for self-styled sects, to shun witchcraft and woo back those who have left.

Luanda - Angola's president on Monday called for greater efforts to fight poverty, acknowledging that 60 percent of the nation lives in desperate conditions despite oil riches that have powered an economic boom.

In the opening speech to the ruling MPLA party's national congress, dos Santos said his party should do more to fight poverty and urged its members not to "pact with corruption and the embezzlement of assets from the public or the party." Last month, dos Santos asked the MPLA, the ruling party for the last 34 years, to implement a "sort of zero ...

Luanda, Dec 7 President of the Movement for the Liberation of Angola Jos Eduardo Dos Santos highlighted the mass character of that party, which works linked to the communities and promotes the culture of solidarity.

CAIRO: Divisions within OPEC have eased as the dual threat of the global economic crisis and climate change talks force oil producers to be pragmatic and unified, analysts said on Sunday.

We still have time, but right now the price is OK, between $70 and $80, close to the target, almost $75, says Ali AlNaimi, Saudi Oil Minister DUBAI/LONDON - Opec is expected to hold output steady when it meets in Luanda at the end of this month, rounding off a year of stable production policy and of robust oil prices.

The Romanian ambassador to Angola, Iacob Prada, announced last Wednesday in Luanda that Romanian experts will start building in 2010 an oil research and prospect centre, in the ambit of a cooperation protocol to be signed between the two countries next year.