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Video and audio from the BBC News archive WWII and 1950-2005. This site is archived and no longer updated. via BBC

Africa's Warrior Queens Gender Roles, Political Leadership and Societal Development by Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor Pan-African News Wire One major recurrent feature of African history is the existence of women ... via Pan-African News Wire

SOUTHERN AFRICA: IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 349 for 3 - 9 November 2007 JOHANNESBURG, 9 November 2007 - CONTENTS SWAZILAND: Declare HIV/AIDS a "humanitarian emergency" MADAGASCAR: Cooperatives keep vanilla farmers ... via IRIN News

“More than 80 percent [of cases] are children, and the four deaths that happened were kids”

The number of people affected by a mystery illness that has already claimed the lives of 4 children on the outskirts of the Angolan capital, Luanda, has climbed to 284. via AllAfrica.com

“What we know is that new cases keep arriving at the hospital”

JOHANNESBURG, 7 November 2007 - An undiagnosed disease that has affected 200 and left at least four dead in Cacuaco, about 20km north of the Angolan capital, Luanda, has health organisations scrambling to ... via IRIN

“As of 1st of November, more than 200 cases including four deaths have been reported”

International health officials are investigating the emergence of a mysterious disease in Angola that has killed at least four people and sickened more than 200. via AlertNet

“Five months ago, readers would not have recognized S.W.F. as meaning sovereign wealth fund”

As the price of oil surges toward a symbolic milestone of $100 a barrel - hitting $96.70 yesterday - it is creating new winners and losers across the globe. via New York Times

"Rosa" oil project, estimated at around USD 2.5 billion, has maximised the investments in the Angolan economy, thanks to the construction in the country of most of the equipment used in this industry. via AllAfrica.com

The chairman of the Angolan Basketball Federation , Gustavo da ConceiA A o highlighted Wednesday in Kuito city, south BiA© province, the efforts inserted by the local government in the rehabilitation of ... via Basketball in Africa

Angolan diamond prospecting and producing firm "Endiama P&P", a subsidiary to the National Diamond Company , Thursday in Luanda produced the first lot of 15,000 carats mined from Camuanzanza mine, in ... via Mining News

Its caught the drill thrill! Based in Houston, TX, Pride International, Inc. provides contract drilling and related services. via Houston Business Journal

“Swapo killed more Namibians than (apartheid) South Africa!”

FINGERS were pointed and accusations were hurled in the National Assembly yesterday about which political factions were guilty with regard to the deaths and disappearances of Namibians during the liberation ... via The Namibian

“This can be done in one of two ways: either the Angolan government can negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies, or it can do so through the mediation of international [donor] organizations, such as the Bill Clinton Foundation”

Every month, Carolina Pinto has to rely on friends in another continent to collect, send on and deliver her lifesaving antiretroviral drugs to Angola's capital Luanda. via PlusNews.org

“If Air Zimbabwe fails the audit, it means there will be no airlines between Zimbabwe and UK”

The inclusion of the Angolan airline will cause consternation By Ndamu Sandu Troubled Air Zimbabwe is courting a banished airline among the list of seven carriers to fill the void left by British Airways as ... via ZWNews.com

“We call for the immediate lifting of these sanctions as they are illegal and unjustifiable”

THE presidents of Angola and Namibia have called on Western countries to lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe, saying they are causing hardship in that country. via AllAfrica.com

“Portugal said they would invite me”

Regulars Interact Luanda, Angola 27 October 2007 07:21 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said he is determined to attend a Europe-Africa summit in Lisbon next month despite pressure from Britain that he be ... via Mail & Guardian

“We will reserve judgement until an open and transparent EIA comes up with details of the actual proposal”

The picturesque Epupa Falls site will now be safe from development The leaders of Namibia and Angola have agreed to move ahead with a hydro-electric dam project at Baynes on the Kunene River. via BBC News

“Our region is facing a power deficit that has the potential to disrupt economic activities and the livelihoods of our people”

THE controversial hydropower project on the Kunene River appears to be headed for fruition. via AllAfrica.com

Angola's National Criminal Investigation Directorate seized more than 30,000 stones and arrested several national and foreign citizens for diamond trafficking in 2007, Angola Press reported. via Diamonds.net

Angolan minister of Public Works, Higino Carneiro, Monday in Luanda highlighted the importance of the Angola Engineering Laboratory in the framework of the country's ongoing reconstruction process. via AllAfrica.com