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82. Angola - INTRODUCTION Although the Portuguese crown initially sent to angola teachers to educate The resultant civil war had domestic, regional, and international dimensions. http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-502.html

Country Listing Angola Table of Contents Angola INTRODUCTION Figure 1. Administrative Divisions of Angola, 1988 Clearly, turmoil, victimization, and disappointment are themes that have pervaded Angola's history, especially since the arrival of Europeans in the fifteenth century. Although the Portuguese crown initially sent to Angola teachers to educate and priests to proselytize, Portugal eventually came to view the area mainly as a source for slaves, especially for Brazil, its colony across the Atlantic Ocean. In the several centuries during which the slave trade flourished, scholars estimate that 4 million Africans from the Angola region were taken into slavery. Of this number, perhaps half died before reaching the New World. During its five centuries of colonization, Portugal treated Angola mostly with indifference or hostility. Although Angolans were often responsible for enslaving other Africans, Portuguese traders provided the impetus and the market for slaving. By raising small armies, Portuguese fought their way into Angola's interior, disrupting as they went kingdoms having sophisticated civilizations. Less alluring to Portuguese settlers than Brazil, Angola generally attracted poorer immigrants, a great many of whom were degredados (see Glossary), or exiled convicts. Portugal's exploitation of Angola did not cease even after slavery had been legally abolished in Angola in 1858. Lisbon spent the last part of the nineteenth century engaged in wars against the African kingdoms that it had not yet conquered and in consolidating its hold on territories awarded to it at the Berlin Conference of 1884 during the so-called scramble for Africa.

83. The History Of Angola View information on the history of angola and other world countries. Below isa brief history of angola. To find information other than history for http://www.factrover.com/history/Angola_history.html

Home All Countries World Newspapers US Newspapers The History of Angola Below is a brief history of Angola. To find information other than history for Angola then visit the Angola Country Page Angola Government Angola People Angola Geography ... Angola Economy HISTORY: In 1482, when the Portuguese first landed in what is now northern Angola, they encountered the Kingdom of the Congo, which stretched from modern Gabon in the north to the Kwanza River in the south. Mbanza Congo, the capital, had a population of 50,000 people. South of this Kingdom were various important states, of which the Kingdom of Ndongo, ruled by the Ngola (King), was most significant. Modern Angola derives its name from the king of Ndongo. The Portuguese gradually took control of the coastal strip throughout the 16th century by a series of treaties and wars. The Dutch occupied Luanda from 1641-48, providing a boost for anti-Portuguese states. In 1648, Brazilian-based Portuguese forces re-took Luanda and initiated a process of military conquest of the Congo and Ndongo states that ended with Portuguese victory in 1671. Full Portuguese administrative control of the interior did not occur until the beginning of the 20th century. Portugal's primary interest in Angola quickly turned to slavery. The slaving system began early in the 16th century with the purchase from African chiefs of people to work on sugar plantations in Sao Tome, Principe, and Brazil. Many scholars agree that by the 19th century, Angola was the largest source of slaves not only for Brazil, but for the Americas, including the United States. By the end of the 19th century, a massive forced labor system had replaced formal slavery and would continue until outlawed in 1961. It was this forced labor that provided the basis for development of a plantation economy and, by the mid-20th century, a major mining sector. Forced labor combined with British financing to construct three railroads from the coast to the interior, the most important of which was the transcontinental Benguela railroad that linked the port of Lobito with the copper zones of the Belgian Congo and what is now Zambia.

84. The West African Margin Geotrack International, world leaders in quantitative Thermal history The regional aspect of this study, which spans 3500 km of the West African margin, http://www.geotrack.com.au/studies/wafrica.htm

The West African Margin Angola - Congo - Gabon - Namibia Defining the timing and magnitude of paleo-thermal events controlling the maturation history and distribution of reservoir sands February 2002 The following provides a brief summary of the original detailed proposal distributed to interested parties in July 2000, prior to the commencement of Geotrack's West African study. With sufficient support, the study commenced in October 2000, and the final of three volumes was completed in September 2001. The success of the study is a testament to the unique and valuable information available from AFTA on this margin. The final study differs somewhat from the original proposal. Notably, more than 250 AFTA analyses were performed, significantly greater than originally proposed. Two successful field excursions were undertaken exclusively for this study. The study is heavily data intensive allowing a firm platform from which new concepts and new models for the tectonics, uplift, maturation and sediment-supply histories can be evaluated and developed. Furthermore, the study contains an organic petrography report, with valuable discussion about widespread problems in this region when using conventional techniques to evaluate maturity. The study fundamentally relies on Thermal History Reconstruction (THR) which is an approach developed by Geotrack International to better understand basin development and sediment supply.

85. The History Guy: New And Recent Conflicts Of The World q Cabinda (angola) Separatist War—(1984Present) The Front for the Liberation Also, if you could please mention which history Guy page you email from, http://www.historyguy.com/new_and_recent_conflicts.html

New and Recent Conflicts of the World Home Military History Historical Personalitie What's New ... Site Map The world is a violent place, and for various political, economic, religious and other reasons, wars and conflicts often erupt. The purpose of this web page is to chronicle these conflicts and attempt to explain why they occur and what may result from them. This page contains four current sections and one section not yet completed. The current sections are: Recently concluded or suspended wars and conflicts Major Acts of Terrorism More detail to be added as time allows Alphabetical listing. q Afghan War q Al-Aqsa Intifada (Israeli-Palestinian Conflict) (high-risk to become a regional war) q Algerian Civil War q Basque Separatist Conflict q Burma (Myanmar) Civil War Military operations near border areas have brought both rebels and the Burmese government into occasional conflict with neighboring Thailand. q Burundi Civil War The rebels use neighboring Congo as a base to launch attacks, thereby giving the Burundi government reason to involve itself in the Second Congolese War q Colombian Civil War The United States is providing military and logistical support to the government.

86. 23 February 2002 Discussion Paper Re Whither Regional Peace And Security - The D regional peace and security in the subcontinent and the State of the DRC afterthe war are angola has threatened attacking Zambia for those reasons. http://www.udm.org.za/20000223_holb_doc_drc.htm

Documentation Holomisa Page U NITED D EMOCRATIC M OVEMENT Discussion Paper re Whither regional peace and security - The DRC after the war as presented at the 2nd day Panel Discussion (Organised by the Africa Institute of South Africa) by Bantu Holomisa as UDM President (Pretoria, Gauteng; 24 and 25/02/2000) The DRC war has the potential to explode into a regional conflict with grave consequences for the region because of the increasing number of countries it has sucked into it viz. Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia. Its linkages with the Angolan civil war aggravate an already critical regional instability that could plunge the SADC community and the Great Lakes region into a conflagration of very serious dimensions. The Angolan linkage is to be traced in the mutual accommodation between UNITA and the Rebel Alliance on the one hand and the DRC and Angolan government alliance which has coincided with the resurgence of the Angolan civil war between government and UNITA. Regional peace and security in the subcontinent and the State of the DRC after the war are inextricably bound with, and dependent on the resolution of the conflict in both the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola. The credibility of the solutions in both countries will depend on the extent to which it meets the conflicting interests of all the players in the conflict.

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You are here allRefer Reference Angola History ... Angola Angola National Security An elderly member of the People's vigilance Brigades Despite the party's international acceptance and domestic hegemony, Angola in the late 1980s remained at war with itself and its most powerful neighbor, South Africa. The insurgency led by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola UNITA), bolstered by growing foreign support, spread from the remote and sparsely populated southeast corner of the country throughout the entire nation. South African interventions on behalf of UNITA and against black South African and Namibian nationalist forces in southern Angola also escalated. Luanda's reliance on the Soviet Union, Cuba, and other communist states for internal security and defense increased as these threats intensified. Intermittent diplomatic efforts since the late 1970s had failed to end the protracted war; indeed, each new initiative had been followed by an escalation of violence. Angola - Appendix B ). Although UNITA was not a party to this historic regional peace agreement, it was hoped that internal peace based on national reconciliation would also ensue. Whether the trilateral accord would be honored and whether Angolans would make peace among themselves were crucial issues in late 1988. History suggested that this would be but a brief respite from endemic conflict, but the promise of a future free of conflict may have provided the impetus to break with the burden of the past.

88. AllRefer.com - Angola - Regional Accord | Angolan Information Resource angola s participation in the regional accords was pragmatic. The accords promisedoverall gains, but not without costs. They entailed the eventual loss of http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/angola/angola155.html

You are here allRefer Reference Angola History ... Angola Angola Regional Accord On December 22, 1988, after eight years of negotiations, Angola, Cuba, and South Africa concluded a regional accord that provided for the removal of Cuban troops from Angola. In a series of talks mediated by the United States, the three parties agreed to link Namibian independence from South African rule to a staged withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. Both processes were to begin in 1989. Cuban troops were to move north of the fifteenth parallel, away from the Namibian border, by August 1, 1989. All Cuban troops were to be withdrawn from Angolan territory by July 1, 1991 (see Appendix B The December 1988 regional accords did not attempt to resolve the ongoing conflict between Angolan forces and UNITA. Rather, it addressed the 1978 UN Security Council Resolution 435, which called for South African withdrawal and free elections in Namibia and prohibited further South African incursions into Angola. The United States promised continued support for UNITA until a negotiated truce and power-sharing arrangement were accomplished. The December 1988 regional accords created a joint commission of representatives from Angola, Cuba, South Africa, the United States, and the Soviet Union to resolve conflicts that threatened to disrupt its implementation. However, immediate responsibility for the accord lay primarily with the UN, which still required an enabling resolution by the Security Council, a funding resolution by the General Assembly, and a concrete logistical plan for member states to establish and maintain a Namibian peacekeeping force as part of the UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) called for by Resolution 435.

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90. Seated Chief (Mwanangara) [Angola; Chokwe] (1988.157) | Object Page | Timeline O angola; Chokwe Wood, cloth, fiber, beads; H. 16 3/4 in. (42.54 cm) wax, andAfrican slaves, they emerged as important regional rulers whose prestige and http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/10/sfc/hod_1988.157.htm

Related Timeline Content Central Africa, 1800-1900 A.D. Portraits of African Leadership: Royal Ancestors Kingdoms of the Savanna The Luba and Lunda Empires Ways of Recording African History Enlarge Seated Chief ( Mwanangara , before 1869 Angola; Chokwe Wood, cloth, fiber, beads; H. 16 3/4 in. (42.54 cm) Rogers Fund, 1988 (1988.157) By the early nineteenth century, Chokwe chiefs in the savanna of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola had become active trading partners with merchants from Europe and the New World. Profiting from commerce in ivory, rubber, wax, and African slaves, they emerged as important regional rulers whose prestige and power was reflected in the art they commissioned for their courts at this time. This figure depicts a Chokwe chief, or mwanangara , and epitomizes the balance of power and refinement that is characteristic of Chokwe court art. His large, spreading hands, muscular shoulders, and aggressive posture epitomize the strength and vigor of a ruler. A bulging, domelike forehead and large eyes suggest mental acuity and keen eyesight. The sweeping curves and swelling volumes of the distinctive headdress, rendered here in wood, depict an actual Chokwe crown made of cloth-covered basketry. Horns of the tiny duiker antelope, which bear associations with hunting and the dangerous, mysterious practices of medicine and sorcery, are placed on the sides of the headdress. The chief holds a lamellophone, or "thumb piano," an instrument whose music often accompanies recitations of oral histories and the praise songs of important individuals. Instrument in hand, the chief is cast as a repository and guardian of historical and cultural knowledge.

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Search the History Cooperative's Conference Proceedings Online: Introduction, Abstracts, and Bios: Introduction Each of the three conference days will focus on a particular rubric. Day One: movement of peoples, ideas, and goods; material interactions and their sites. Day Two: Networks and connections beyond the nation-state. Day Three: Reconfigurations of "area" and "state," their implications and interactions. Abstracts and Bios The Role of Central Asians in the Spread of World Religions, ca. 200 BCE-1000 CE Richard Foltz, Columbia University This paper will discuss how and why the Iranian peoples of Central Asia played such a major role in the transmission of religions from the Near East to the Far East throughout the first millennium of the Common Era. Richard C. Foltz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, University of Florida, and has held visiting positions at Columbia University, Brown University, and Gettysburg College. He holds a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. He is the author of

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93. AllAfrica.com Angola WHO Regional Director For Africa Ends Visit The World Health Organisation (WHO) regional director for Africa, The 10thcampaign that opened officially on Friday, in angola s northern Uije province http://allafrica.com/stories/200508010781.html

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95. Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) Southern African regional Poverty Network (SARPN), Last update 200508-12 Preventing history from repeating itself Inter Press Service News Agency http://www.sarpn.org.za/

Home Contact SARPN Site map Site search ... Document search Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) Last update: 2005-09-15 "Connecting people, ideas and information to fight poverty" Search www.sarpn.org.za: The purpose of SARPN: To provide a facility for raising the level and quality of public debate on poverty across the Southern African Development Community - SADC. NEPAD - African Peer Review Mechanism UN Reform The African Peer Review Mechanism has the objective of fostering policies, standards and practices leading to political stability, high economic growth and sustainable development and accelerated sub-regional and continental economic integration. SARPN recently hosted a seminar on Ghana's implementation of the APRM: Lessons learnt Speaker: Professor SKB Asante, Member of Ghana's National APRM Governing Council Respondents: Dr. Khabele Matlosa, Electoral Institute of Southern Africa; Ms. Ayesha Kajee, The South African Institute of International Affairs Date: Monday, 5 September 2005, Pretoria

96. TAAG Angola Airlines Initiates Fleet Renewal, Signs Contract For Boeing 777s And emerging from a very tumultuous period in its history, said J. Miguel Santos, Our work in angola , in partnership with TAAG, will help establish a http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q3/nr_050718h.html

TAAG Angola Airlines Initiates Fleet Renewal, Signs Contract for Boeing 777s and 737s Airline places order for two 777-200ERs with option for one additional airplane Orders four Next-Generation 737-700s with two options These images are available for editorial use by news media on boeingmedia.com NOTE: BCA photo release images are available on boeingmedia for 12 months from their release date. SEATTLE , July 18, 2005 The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and TAAG Angola Airlines today said they've reached a definitive agreement for the purchase of two and four airplanes. The firm airplane order has a catalogue list value of $649.6 million and is valued at approximately $990 million with options. The first 777-200ER is scheduled for delivery in July of 2006, when the first new 737-700 will also join the fleet. The remaining airplanes on order will be delivered in 2006. "What we witness in Angola is a country emerging from a very tumultuous period in its history," said J. Miguel Santos, Boeing Commercial Airplanes' director International Sales.

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Il significato della parola CAPOEIRA Origini della CAPOEIRA: Africa o Brasile? Lotta o danza? Zumbi e il quilombo di Palmares Il più famoso dei quilombos è, nel XVII secolo, quello di Palmares, capeggiato dapprima dal re Ganga Zumba, poi da suo nipote Zumbi. Bersaglio di non meno di 24 spedizioni punitive, riesce a resistere per più di sessant’anni nelle regioni interne dell’Alagoas, prima di essere sterminato dal capitão de mato Dias Velho in seguito a una vera e propria guerra conclusasi con un assalto al cannone nel 1695. Oggi Zumbi è considerato il simbolo per eccellenza della cultura negra in Brasile, e quindi anche uno dei principali "eroi" della capoeira. Secondo una prima versione, si gettò dall’alto di una rupe piuttosto che consegnarsi ai nemici. Se-condo un’altra versione venne ucciso a tradimento e poi gli venne mozzata la testa, che fu esposta nella pubblica piazza a Recife, per dissacrare la sua figura divenuta quasi im-mortale. Nel 1822 il Brasile ottiene l’indipendenza dal Portogallo e diventa un impero, ma la schiavitù resta ancora in vigore fino a quando, nel 1871, la Principessa Isabella, figlia dell’imperatore Pietro II e allora reggente in suo nome, è indotta dal parlamento a decretare l’emancipazione dei nascituri figli degli schiavi. Successivamente, fra il 1885 e il 1888, la schiavitù viene definitivamente abolita. L’anno successivo (1889) un colpo di stato militare segna la fine dell’Impero e instaura la repubblica. Per questo motivo i neri brasiliani – e quindi anche i capoeiristi – erano allora in grande maggioranza molto devoti alla principessa Isabella, che li aveva "liberati", e antirepubblicani. Infatti negli ultimi anni dell’Impero viene creata dai monarchici la Guarda Negra, composta da ex schiavi neri e mulatti, allo scopo di combattere i repubblicani.

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99. AEGiS: Angola Information about angola. regional and global structures and networks forimproved monitoring and surveillance of HIV/AIDS and STIs. http://www.aegis.com/countries/angola.html

Local time in Luanda: Facts and Figures Official Name Republic of Angola Capital City Luanda Languages Portuguese (official), Bantu and varied African dialects. Official Currency Kwanza Ethnic Groups Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22%. Religions Indigenous beliefs (47%), Catholic (38), Protestant (15%) Population 10,593,171 (July 2002 est.) Land Area 1,246,700 sq km (481,353 sq miles) History Civil war has been the norm in Angola since independence from Portugal in 1975. A 1994 peace accord between the government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) provided for the integration of former UNITA insurgents into the government and armed forces. A national unity government was installed in April of 1997, but serious fighting resumed in late 1998, rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless. Up to 1.5 million lives may have been lost in fighting over the past quarter century. The death of Jonas SAVIMBI and a cease fire with UNITA may bode well for the country. UNAIDS Epidemiological Fact Sheets [English] [French] Global Surveillance of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is a joint effort of WHO and UNAIDS. The UNAIDS/WHO Working Group on Global HIV/AIDS and STI Surveillance, initiated in November 1996, guides respective activities. The primary objective of the working group is to strengthen national, regional and global structures and networks for improved monitoring and surveillance of HIV/AIDS and STIs. For this purpose, the working group collaborates closely with national AIDS programmes and a number of national and international experts and institutions. The goal of this collaboration is to compile the best information available and to improve the quality of data needed for informed decision-making and planning at national, regional and global levels. The Epidemiological Fact Sheets are one of the products of this close and fruitful collaboration across the globe.

100. Angola: From War To Social Justice?, 10/21/2004 It assesses the implications of angola s history of peacemaking efforts andapproaches to postconflict reconstruction for the prospects of a peaceful, http://www.africa.upenn.edu/afrfocus/afrfoucs102104.html

AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER - UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Angola: From War to Social Justice?, 10/21/2004 Angola: From War to Social Justice? AfricaFocus Bulletin Oct 21, 2004 (041021) (Reposted from sources cited below) Editor's Note "Negative peace (cessation of hostilities) is far preferable to no peace at all but it ... leaves deficits and injustices in the social, political and economic structures, institutions and cultures largely unresolved. It fails to promote political negotiation and democratic processes." - Conciliation Resources briefing paper More than two years after the formal end to war in Angola, both political democratization and economic reconstruction are still stalled. A new Conciliation Resources study includes a series of articles analyzing the recent past and the legacy left by an incomplete peace process. It is available on the web at http://www.c-r.org/accord/ang/accord15 , in both English and Portuguese. This AfricaFocus Bulletin features a summary briefing paper released with the Conciliation Resources report. It also includes a recent article from the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), noting that new income from recent increases in oil prices is apparently going to pay off foreign loans rather than to address urgent domestic needs. For another recent report, focused on issues of freedom of expression, see the July publication by Human Rights Watch at

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