Angola News Archives

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.

A strange phenomenon has been taking place in the classified ad section of state-owned daily Jornal de Angola that is raising eyebrows in the African nation.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday his party's boycott of government does not terminate a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe.

Friday, October 23, 2009 LONDON: OPEC could decide to boost crude oil output in December if prices continue to strengthen and a global economic recovery is sustained, cartel secretary-general Abdalla Salem El-Badri said here on Thursday.

The diamond sector is likely to be hardest hit, as demand falls and prices drop.

More than 30,000 Angolans are stranded in transit camps after being abruptly deported from the Democratic Republic of Congo and there are growing fears of a cholera outbreak as the rainy season begins.

A burgeoning humanitarian crisis among the tens of thousands of people expelled by the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring Angola is beginning to unfold.

An Angolan ad agency has turned The Simpsons from yellow to brown in a television campaign promoting the long-running comedy's debut on an African satellite channel.

Kinshasa, Oct 14 Authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola are looking for a way out to the bilateral migratory conflict, after Angolans have been massively expelled from the other country.

The tit-for-tat expulsion of thousands of Angolan refugees living in the Democratic Republic of Congo , and the repatriation of thousands of undocumented Congolese migrants working in Angola, is raising fears of a "humanitarian catastrophe" in the making.

The Democratic Republic of Congo said it had agreed with Angola to halt tit-for-tat expulsions of each other's citizens as victims here on Wednesday told of being subjected to brutal rapes and lootings when they were thrown out by Luanda.

Tens of thousands of people - some of them wrenched from their homes with only the clothes on their backs - have been expelled recently from both Angola and Congo in what has been a tit-for-tat immigration dispute between two of Africa's behemoth neighbors.

LUANDA: The Democratic Republic of Congo has expelled more than 20,000 Angolans from its territory in recent days to retaliate against Angola's explusion of illegal Congolese diamond miners, an Angolan official said.

One of the biggest newcomers at Cityscape Dubai this year was Ridge Solutions, the largest property developer in Angola.

Radio Nacional Angola celebrates 33 years State-owned Angola National Radio marked Monday, October 05, 33 years since the first Angolan Head of State, AntA3nio Agostinho Neto, paid a visit to the station, in 1976, serving as landmark for this media institution's anniversary.

Thousands of Congolese citizens are being deported from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo under alarming circumstances, say humanitarian workers.

Angolan national oil company Sociedade Nacional de Combustveis de Angola and BP announced an oil discovery in ultra-deepwater block 31, offshore Angola.

Investors, entrepreneurs and business executives from the United States and Angola are "finding each other" and finding out that they are "natural partners in business," U.S. Ambassador to Angola Dan Mozena told America.gov September 29.

Rumours that Angola is not ready to host the 2010 Cup of Nations are "absolutely rubbish", a senior African Football Confederation official said on Monday after a five-day inspection of new stadiums.