Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (, ; Kikongo, Kimbundu, Umbundu: Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in southern Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city.
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Angola's president says national parliamentary elections will be held Aug.
31.In a press release Wednesday, the president also announced the appointment of Edeltrudes Costa as the electoral commission's interim president. The former electoral commission president had to step down after opposition parties challenged her appointment. She was not a judge and Angolan law requires a judge lead the commission.In 2010, Angola's parliament changed the constitution so that parliament, not the people, would elect the president. Critics had said giving parliament such power will only further entrench President Eduardo Dos Santos, who has been in power since 1979. Dos Santos says the method others in the region use to pick presidents is more efficient and less costly....German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that her country is willing to help train Angolan soldiers for peacekeeping, a German news agency reported.Merkel made...
In his tiny dorm room, Nelson Hebo keeps an envelope containing a few tattered photographs of his family. His mother, Maria, gazes distantly from a black-and-white p...
Campaign banners from an election that was violently interrupted still hang in the main thoroughfare of this steamy capital, a reminder that a stable government is f...
It was supposed to be Cuba's economic savior: vast untapped reserves of black gold buried deep under the rocky ocean floor.But the first attempt in nearly a decade t...
A South African businessman who helped put a notorious Russian arms dealer known as The Merchant of Death behind bars for 25 years was rewarded on Wednesday with a f...
By Henrique AlmeidaLUANDA (Reuters) - Angolans flocked to a stadium in Luanda for the opening game of the African Nations Cup they hope will restore some national pr...
Former Brazil World Cup winner Rivaldo has signed with Angolan club Kabuscorp.Rivaldo, 39, won the FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d'Or as the top player in...
Activists are questioning Angola's rights record as it hosts a regional summit.Angola, a virtual one-party state, takes over the Southern African Development Communi...
Angolan human rights activists imprisoned after a separatist attack have been freed in time for Christmas, a colleague said Saturday.In an e-mail to The Associated P...
An Angolan rights activists says colleagues imprisoned after a separatist attack have been freed.In an e-mail to The Associated Press Saturday, Antonio Paca Panzo sa...
Seven months in jail — the first few days without food, water or visitors — have only strengthened the resolve of an Angolan human rights activist, he told The Assoc...
Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roi...
Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it's a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emer...
Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it's a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emer...
A New Jersey father and son were being held captive in a hotel in the southern African nation of Angola for 44 days and counting after New York City rapper Nas skipp...
The U.S. says a cargo ship and its load of American food aid for Africa has been delayed for weeks in Angola because of questions about ammunition it also was carryi...
LUANDA (Reuters) - The African Nations Cup kicked off Sunday in dramatic style with eight goals scored in the tournament's opening match and Togo flying home.Angola ...
Labeled an "undiscovered gem" by London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe, handball took centre stage on Wednesday when the men's draw for the Olympic tournament pitted ho...
Angolan authorities have barred activists from entering the country ahead of a regional summit taking place there next week.An alliance of civil society groups known...
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