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Crimes by armed gangs against Chinese expatriates working in Luanda has risen drastically in recent months, posing a grave threat to business activities and the normal life of the Chinese community in the Capital city of Angola, senior Chinese businessmen said on Tuesday.

The high cost of living in the country is paradoxical: Angola's high development indicators are not reflected in the finances of the majority of Angola's citizens and do not translate to quality of life for those less economically well off.

Over 20,000 Angolans living in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been forced to return to Angola and have been living in tents, with very little food and medical assistance.

Luanda, Nov 7 The Angolan Association of Friendship with Cuba ratified its support to the international community's rejection of the almost 50-year-old US blockade on Cuba.

Bishop Emilio Sumbelelo of Uije has launched an appeal to send emergency aid for Angolans forced to return to their native country, from the Democratic Republic of Congo .

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Luanda - The Angolan government on Wednesday kicked off a rare process of national debate, setting out three possible constitutions for the country and inviting public comment.

For 15 years, the residents of the Gabiconta building in the centre of Kuito town lived in apartments with the front faA ade missing.

The United Nations refugee agency has rushed relief items to help tens of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo last month.

Statoil hailed an oil discovery in the Cabaca Norte-1 well in an offshore block in Angola as a foundation for the company's plans for international growth.

OPEC ministers will raise output to protect the global economic recovery at a meeting in December if oil prices rise to $100 per barrel, the group's president said on Sunday.

A Paris court has jailed former interior minister Charles Pasqua and given a suspended sentence to the son of late President Francois Mitterrand for involvement in arms trafficking to Angola.

United Nations agencies are preparing to airlift tents and an emergency response team to help scores of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo as each country continues to drive out its neighbour's nationals.

An emergency programme aimed at strengthening the thermoelectric capacity of Luanda will be implemented between next December and April of 2010 to provide 200 megawatts of electrical power, with the functioning of four new central stations, that may work on isolated basis.

The Angolan ambassador, Lus Neto Kiambata, said Wednesday in Luanda it is "essential" and "indispensable" for the Angola Press Agency management to pay more attention to the training of its personnel and keep pace with world technological evolution.

A French court slapped prison terms and stiff fines on Tuesday on the main players in a network that smuggled arms to Angola and included an ex-minister and the son of late president Francois Mitterrand.

Modern Angola still bears the scars of one of the most brutal wars of the Cold War era.

A Paris court sentenced a former interior minister to a year in prison on Tuesday and fined the son of the late President Francois Mitterrand for links to arms trafficking to Angola in a case that involved corruption at the highest levels.

A French court will hand down verdicts Tuesday in the trial of 42 politicians, businessmen and members of the Parisian elite accused of trafficking arms to Angola in the 1990s.

United Arab Emirates: 1 hour, 34 minutes ago The start of Emirates' flights between Dubai and Luanda reflects the flurry of global interest in Africa's second biggest oil producer, according to an Angolan government minister.