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Angola's New $5B Wealth Fund
Luanda, Angola (CNN) -- Angola, Africa's second-largest oil producer, has launched a $5 billion sovereign wealth fund in an attempt to diversify its economy -- a move more associated with wealthy Gulf...
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Housing Luanda's Street Children
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - In Luanda, Angola, there are many children who sleep in the streets, in deserted houses or in parks, inhale gasoline to try to cope with hunger and to give themselves courage...
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State of Angola's Disastrous Drought
Angola is now in the midst of a disastrous drought. This is current report just released by the International Red Cross.Drought is currently affecting 10 coastal and central highland provinces of...
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African Folklore: Caracal, Eland and Jackal
(A Bushman Story) Caracal was returning home from a hunting foray when he bumped into Eland. Caracal had never seen Eland before. Approaching warily, he said, "Good day friend! What may your name...
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Angolan Food: Mukua
Mukua is the traditional Angolan dried fruit from the emblematic baobab tree. The fruit has a hard shell like a coconut and is a whole food, which is naturally dried on the baobab tree, resulting a...
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Angola: Leading in African Telecommunications
Angola’s largest wireless operator by subscribers, Unitel, recently in the last few months launched its 4G LTE services. Angola's second largest provider, Movicel, launched Africa's first commercial...
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Angola on Track to Leave List of Least Developed Countries
The Committee for Development Policy of the Social Council of the United Nations (UNCTAD) announced in September that Angola became a candidate for the graduation process of the Group of Least...
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Historic City Series: Lobito
The city of Lobito is long considered “the guest room of Angola”. Located on the south-central Angolan coast, in the province of Benguela, it is the city that most resembles Luanda, adorned with a wide...
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Remembering January 4 in Angola
Luanda — The Angolan people are celebrating on Friday, January 04, the Colonial Repression Martyrs' Day, with political, cultural and sports activities.The date is of extreme importance in the context...
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Update on a Princess Diana's Angola Landmine Victim
(Mail Online, Luanda) Pictured 16 years on: The brave girl who won Diana's heart after losing leg in an Angolan landmine blast.She was 13 and about to receive a prosthetic leg when Princess Diana...
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Golfing Angola: New Championship Course Opens
Until now, the golfing venues in Angola had been limited to a purely sand course in Benfica, situated just south of Luanda.Recently, a new championship quality golf course has opened in Ingombota, a...
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Invented in Angola!
Nuremberg (From special envoy) - Angolan inventors, who represented the country at the recent International Fair of Ideas, Invention and New Products (IENA), received seven medals, one gold, one silver...
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Angolan Training Boosts Human Capital
(Luanda) With seven children from his wife and another six fathered in distant provinces where he fought in the war, 54-year-old José Simão describes his life in the past as just "fighting and making...
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For the Love of Hockey - Angolan Style
Luanda — Hockey is popular in Angola, but not the 'ice' kind because of the climate. The game of roller hockey is similar to ice hockey but played on an indoor, hard surfaced rink of one of three...
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Angola Dental Health Challenges
(Post from visiting doctor to CEML, Dr. Nicholas Comninellis)What's the importance of dental care? This child arrived at Lubango Evangelica Medical Center, in Angola of southern Africa, with an abscess...
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Stirring Initiatives: Angola's Coffee
Thanks to a number of new initiatives, there is a resurrection in Angola's fortunes in the world's most valuable farm commodity, coffee.Angola was formerly the industry's fourth-largest grower, but its...
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Protecting Angola's Cherished National Park
The Angolan government has endorsed a $10 million project to further protect the 1.5 million hectare Iona National Park, a conservation area shared with neighboring Namibia.The Park, (Parque Nacional...
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Drought Contributes to Cholera Outbreak in Southern Angola
DECEMBER 5, 2013 (IRIN) A protracted drought followed by the onset of the rainy season in southern Angola has triggered a sharp increase in cholera cases, mainly concentrated in Cunene province, around...
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Angola's Heroic Queen
Queen Njinga a Mbande was a 17th-century Angolan queen of the Mbundu people in the Ndongo Kingdom, is one of Africa's best documented early-modern rulers and is considered to be a heroine not only in...
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