Angola News

The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on October 6, 2008, appointed Father Jose Manuel Imbamba, of the clergy of the Diocese of Lwena, Secretary General of the Catholic University of Luanda and Professor of Philosophy ...

A floating city or a naval siege? The small bay of Angola's capital Luanda is illuminated at night by a long queue of ships waiting to offload the cargo that feeds Africa's fastest growing economy.

International aid groups have said they are seriously concerned by the threat to ban an Angolan rights organisation.

The Angolan government here on Monday host a string of activities to celebrate the World Habitat Day, with UN Executive Secretary for Urban Settlement Anna Tibaijuca participating a main celebration in the ...

Luanda, Oct 6 President of the Cabindan Forum for Dialogue Antonio Bento Bembe denied on Monday the rumors of armed clashes in Cabinda, north Angola.

Angola will ask a French court to scrap the trial opening later Monday of 42 politicians, businessmen and other public figures accused in the arms-to-Angola scandal of the 1990s, its lawyer said.

Forty-two people including the son of late French president Francois Mitterrand and dozens of businessman, politicians and public figures go on trial on Monday over a vast "arms-to-Angola" scandal.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants to clean up the way France sells its weapons abroad.

The 468-page French indictment makes seamy reading: secret arms deals feeding bloodshed in an oil-rich African country.

LUANDA, Angola - Export Development Canada is preparing to provide up to US$1 billion in financing for infrastructure projects undertaken by Angola's government and up to US$16 million for private-sector ...

JOHANNESBURG, 1 October 2008 - Angola's new government is promising better health facilities at both primary and secondary care levels, as well as to reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS over the next four years.

Southern African News Features 30 September 2008 Richard Nyamanh Angola's ruling party secured a landslide parliamentary election victory in the September poll with a clear majority that extended their ...

Angola's ruling party has named a new prime minister in the first step of a government reshuffle after legislative elections earlier this month, state radio RNA reported on Friday.

"Election free and fair, sort of," was the headline from the UN's Integrated Regional Information Networks news service after Angola's long-awaited parliamentary election early this month.

Angola Press Agency 21 September 2008 Luanda The national director of Commerce, Gomes Cardoso, Saturday in Cacuaco, near Luanda, announced that another six outlets of the "Nosso Super" supermarket network will ...

Officials from the Angolan government and the China Development Bank in Luanda on Tuesday discussed operational aspects concerning the implementation of a cooperation agreement signed last August.

Angola Press Agency 20 September 2008 Luanda The Angolan government and the African Diamond Producers Association on Friday signed, here, an agreement that enables that organisation to set up its headquarters ...

"ANGOLAN SECOND LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS A STEP TOWARDS THE CONSOLIDATION OF A MULTIPARTY DEMOCRACY, A FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT FOR PEACE, STABILITY, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT" Washington , DC .

Angola Press Agency 19 September 2008 Geneva Angola was elected on Wednesday as vice chair of the new Trade and Development Board of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development , which is gathered ...

The government pointed out that, in the course of the war, nearly every scrap of infrastructure in the country had been destroyed, and that its people were some of the very poorest in the world, with one of ...