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Informacion de Angola en Inglish
- Action
for Southern Africa, ACTSA - "Waiting on Empty Promises: The human cost
of international inaction on Angolan sanctions"
- Published London, April 2000. ACTSA is "the successor organisation to
the British Anti-Apartheid Movement." http://www.actsa.org/Angola/waiting_on_empty.htm
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Africa Action (formerly Africa Policy Information Center) Washington,
D.C. - Angola Reports
- Has reports on Angolan politics and economy, the full text of
Angola: Peace Monitor. http://www.africapolicy.org/docs00/regdocs.shtml#southern
- Africa
Information Afrique (AIA)
- The AIA wire stories for 1993 to 1996 on Angola, and other Southern
African countries.
http://csf.colorado.edu/ipe/africa.html
- AfricaLuso
- Discussion list "dedicated to the five countries of Lusophone Africa
Angola, Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe e Moçambique.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaluso/
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Aguilar, Renato - Reports on Angola
- Aguilar is Associate Professor at the Department of
Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His reports on the
macroeconomics of Angola cover 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and were written
for SIDA.
http://cent.hgus.gu.se/econ/DevelopmentEconomics/renato/
- Allport
(Richard) - Military History
- Allport is based in the Netherlands. Use the Search form to locate
full text articles on the war in Angola; or see the
South Africa:
Military History section. http://www.rhodesia.myweb.nl/index.html
- American Mineral Fields
- Mining company operating in Congo-Kinshasa, Angola,
Zambia and Madagascar.Has press
releases on its operations in Africa. See also
Mineral Properties.
http://www.am-min.com/96/news/mar23-98.html
- Amnesty International
- Use the Search to
locate many full text reports, news releases, relating to Angola, such as
- "Angola. Freedom of expression under threat," "Annual report on
Angola," "Angola Human Rights - the Gateway to Peace," "The Lusaka
Protocol: what prospect for human rights?" "Extrajudicial executions and
torture in Cabinda." [KF] http://www.amnesty.org/
- Ananzi Search Engine
- Search engine which searches only South African web sites. Enter a
search query. By IS-Commercial of The Internet Solution Group. http://www.ananzi.co.za/
- Angola.
Comissão Constitucional (Luanda)
- In Portuguese. Official site. Has the law creating the Commission,
resolutions, Commission members and their parties, national anthem in
Portuguese, Príncipios Fundamentais a ter em Conta na Elaboração da
Futura Constituição de Angola, etc. http://www.comissao-constitucional.gv.ao/
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Angola. Constitution
- Full text. On the web site of the Embassy of Angola, Washington,
D.C. http://www.angola.org/referenc/constitution/constit.htm
- Angola.
Constitution.
- Full text of the Constitution. The International Constitutional Law (ICL)
site provides "English translations of and other textual material related
to constitutional documents." Site maintained by Dr. Axel Tschentscher,
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Institut für Rechtsphilosophie,
Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht, Würzburg, Germany. [KF] http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/law/ao00000_.html
- Angola.
Consulate. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- In Portuguese. Travel, tourism, investment information. http://www.radnet.com.br/consuladodeangola/
- Angola. Embassy. Canada
- http://www.angolan.org/
- Angola. Embassy.
Portugal
- In Portuguese. News, the economy, government ministries, full text in
English of the Lusaka Protocol of Nov. 15, 1994,
information for visitors, etc. http://www.embaixadadeangola.org/
- Angola. Embassy. Washington,
D.C.
- Official government site. Includes basic facts, a list of the
Cabinet, travel tips, UN reports on the UN Angola Verification Missions
(July 17, 1995, Oct. 4, 1995), an Oct. 1995 USAID report "Angola-Civil
Strife", speeches of President dos Santos and other govt. officials, the
Embassy newsletter,
O
Pensador, the Angolan Mission to the UN's newsletter,
The
Angolan Mission Observer, brief news stories,
e-mail
addresses of people in Angola, links to
Angolan sites
including Angolan embassies, an internet directory to major international
organizations, etc. http://www.angola.org/
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Angola Historical Weather 1879-1925
- The actual data is not provided only a summary of the kinds of
information found in Angolan publications held in the National Oceanic
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library in Washington, D.C.
This web site is maintained by the Netherlands Earth Observation Network
(NEONET). [KF]. http://neonet.nlr.nl/ceos-idn/datasets/NCL00282_286_290.html
- Angola. Ministério da
Educação e Cultura. Alfabetização e Educação de Adultos em Angola
- In Portuguese. Information on the Instituto Nacional da Alfabetização,
statistics on literacy, photographs, full of "Politica nacional da
educacao de adultos e programa, para 1998-2007." http://mineduc.snet.co.ao/
- Angola. Ministério das Finanças
/ Ministry of Finance
- In Portuguese. The budget for 2000-2003, full text documents (such as
Programa do governo .....2002, 31 p., Programa economico e
social do governo ....200l, 44 p., Balanço do Programa do Governo -
2001, Síntese de Indicadores Económicos, Indicadores Económicos
Comparativos, documents on privitization ), statistics (such as petroleum
exports), list of past Ministers, list of relevant legislation, etc.
http://www.minfin.gv.ao/
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Angola Page - Portugalnet
- In Portuguese. Discussion groups on Angola. http://www.portugalnet.pt/
- Angola
Peace Monitor
- Monthly newsletter produced by Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA),
successor to the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. The back issues from
Vol. 1, No. 1, April 3, 1995 and issues following are online at:
http://www.anc.org.za/angola/apmintro.html
- Angola. Policia
Nacional Angolana
- In Portuguese. Official site. The Angola national police. http://www.policia-angola.gv.ao/
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Angola: Recent Economic Developments (1997)
- The full text of
International
Monetary Fund Staff Country Report No. 97/112 in Adobe Acrobat PDF
format, c. 70 pages. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/CAT/longres.cfm?sk=2428.0
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Angola. Special Advertising Supplement to the New York Times,
March 19, 2001
- Full text of a supplement on Angola's economy, business
opportunities. See Part Two, "Broadening
the Economic Base" published as a special advertising supplement in
the NYT, Dec. 28, 2001. From
Summit Communications which produces special country business
sections in the New York Times. [KF] http://www.summitreports.com/angola/index.htm
- Angolan
Mission Observer
- E version of the print bi-monthly newsletter from the Permanent
Mission of Angola to the United Nations (New York). Includes past issues.
http://www.angola.org/news/mission/index.html
- Angonet
(Luanda)
- In English and Portuguese. "aims to increase the capacity of
non-profit, civic and development organisations working within the
context of Angola's humanitarian crisis, through improved communications
and information exchange." Provides internet access for development /
humanitarian organizations in Angola. http://www.angonet.org./
- Anzinger
Governments on the WWW - Angola
- Links to Angola-related sites. Maintained by Gunnar Anzinger. http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/ao.html
- Associação dos
Estudantes Angolanos no Estado de São Paulo [Brazil]
- In Portuguese. Has photos of their 24º aniversário da independência
celebration. http://aea-sp.8m.com/index.html
- AWEPA, the
European Parliamentarians for Southern Africa (Amsterdam)
- Current information on Angola. AWEPA was founded, in 1984, as the
Association of West European Parliamentarians for Action against
Apartheid. Its interests include development cooperation, electoral
assistance and observation, democratisation and human rights. It
publishes the highly regarded Angola Peace Process Bulletin and an
Angola Chronology, 1997-- http://www.awepa.org/index_flash.html
- Banco Nacional de
Angola
- In Portuguese. http://www.ebonet.net/bna/bna.htm
- Bibliografia
Anual de Historia de Portugal
- Citations from the 1990 volume only (includes 1989 citations) of the
Bibliografia anual de historia de Portugal: da pre-historia a 1974.
Published by the Grupo de Historia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade
de Coimbra. Has an
African section covering Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique. [KF]
Main page:
http://www.uc.pt/BAHP/bahp.top.html
- Africa page:
http://www.uc.pt/BAHP/bahp90.exp.afneg.html
- Bourne,
Mike - "Conflict Diamonds: Roles, Responsibilities and Responses"
- Full text paper published Jan. 2001. 20 pages
in Adobe pdf.
(University of Bradford, Dept. of Peace Studies. Working Paper, 2.1)
Concerns Angola, Sierra Leone, Congo (Kinshasa). The University is
in Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K. http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/pubs/pubs.htm
- British Angola Forum
- In English and Portuguese. Has the
full text of some lectures
to the Forum, book reviews,
extensive directory of web
resources, photographs.
"founded in 1998 with the aim of bringing together organizations,
companies and individuals interested in historical and contemporary
Angola; its primary task is to enhance relations between Angola and the
United Kingdom." Based at the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
London, UK. http://195.157.131.156/
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Brunhoso, Antognoni
- Paintings by the Angolan artist from Amsterdam, Antognoni Brunhoso.
One painting is based on the book about Queen Lueji by the Angolan writer
Pepetela. Includes scrapbook and decorated envelopes. [KF] http://www.africaserver.nl/virtual/exhibitions/antognoni/index.html
- Cabinda - Forças de Libertação
do Estado de Cabinda (F.L.E.C.)
- FLEC declares the independence of Cabinda from Angola. Has a history,
bylaws, party program, Cabinda identity card, birth certificate,
photographs, etc. http://www.cabinda.org/
- Cabinda. High Commission.
U.K.
- http://www.cabinda.org.uk/
- [Cabinda] Republic of Cabinda -
"Welcome to the Government of Cabinda World Wide Web Service"
- In English, Portuguese and French. Reports that Angola continues to
occupy Republic of Cabinda illegally. Has older Cabinda news from
the Cabinda Broadcast Network, links to the official journal,
Cabinda Resistente, press releases, photographs, history, the
University of Cabinda,
historical maps, the
Cabinda National Tourist Organization, the
national anthem,
Association Cabindaise de Défense des Droits de l’Homme, audio clip on
Cubans in Cabinda, and other Cabinda related pages. "Prepared by the
Cabindan Information Resources. In collaboration with : CBN - Cabinda
Broadcast Network." http://www.cabinda.net
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Chabal, Patrick - Papers Online
- Prof. Chabal is Professor of Lusophone African Studies, King's
College, Univ. of London. The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian
Studies site has the full text of -
"Apocalypse Now? A postcolonial journey into Africa",
Inaugural lecture, delivered on 12 March 1997 in King’s College, London.
"Angola and Mozambique: the weight of history" Working
Paper,1998
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/pobrst/pcpapers.htm
[KF]
- Chokwe.com -
Chokwe, Lwena/Luvale, Lunda and Related Peoples of Angola, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo and Zambia
- Land, houses, livelihood, leisure, legal system, initiations, role of
masquerades, mask categories, traditional healers,
diviners, traditional story about humans and spirits,
relations with the colonial government. Photographs, stamps
from Angola, Zambia, postcards(historical /
contemporary), a bibliography includes articles.
Maintained by Dr. Manuel Jordán, Phyllis Wattis Curator of the Arts of
Africa,Oceania and the Americas, Stanford Univ. http://www.chokwe.com/
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Christian Aid - Fuelling Poverty - Oil, War and Corruption
- Full text report. May 2003. 52 p.
In Adobe pdf. Includes Angola ("where oil revenues have
fuelled a 30-year
civil war, from which the country is only just emerging" "Of the $5
billion the Angolan government receives in
oil revenues every year, it is estimated that more than US$1 billion goes
missing."), Sudan ("a country still gripped by a civil war that
has been fuelled, prolonged and part-financed by oil."). The web site
includes audio and video of Joseph Fiennes'
visit to Angola. http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/indepth/0305cawreport/fuellingpoverty.htm
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clari.world.africa.southern
- Reuters and AP wire stories on Angola and other countries. Usenet
newsgroup created November 1995. To access this, your internet service
provider must pay for a subscription to the newsgroup.
news:clari.world.africa.southern
- Cold War
International History Project (Washington, D.C.)
- Established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
supports the release of historical materials by governments, seeks to
disseminate new perspectives on Cold War history.
http://cwihp.si.edu
Has full text reports - New Evidence on the Cold War in Southern Africa
- Havana's Policy in Africa, 1959-76: New Evidence from Cuban
Archives, by Piero Gleijeses
- Fidel Castro's 1977 Southern Africa Tour: A Report to Honecker
- Moscow and the Angolan Crisis, by Odd Arne Westad
- Soviet Documents on Angola and Southern Africa, 1975-1979
- COMESA, Common Market for Eastern
and Southern Africa
- "COMESA [formerly the PTA] exists as an organisation of free
independent sovereign states which have agreed to co-operate in
developing their natural and human resources for the good of all their
people'. With its 19 member states and population of 300 million it forms
a major integrated trading block." Has information on customs
tariffs by country, road/transport including road distances, economic
profiles for each country (Angola, Burundi, Comoros, D.R. Congo,
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda,
Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe) etc.
Has the text of Doing Business with COMESA: the Handbook,
legal guides to establishing business, etc. http://www.comesa.int/
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Based in New York city, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization
which does not accept govt. funding. Has a
Country
Report on Angola and a
searchable Press Freedom
database of attacks on the press in Africa and elsewhere.
http://www.cpj.org
- Comunidade dos Países de Língua
Portuguesa (CPLP)
- In Portuguese. "uma organização internacional, criada em 17 de Julho
de 1996" comprised of Angola, Brasil, Cabo-Verde, Guiné-Bissau,
Moçambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe. Has documents / speeches from
the Iª Conferência dos Chefes de Estado in 1996 and the IIª Conferência
dos Chefes de Estado in 1998, documents from the Council of Ministers
meetings, etc. Has brief full text articles from its
Boletim, brief country profiles, events calendar. http://www.cplp.org/
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Conference - New Research on Lusophone Africa, London, 16-17 May 2002,
King's College
- Has full text papers on Angola, Mozambique. Hosted on the site
of the Dept. of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College London.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk//depsta/humanities/pobrst/conference.html
Imogen Parsons - "Conflict and the (de-)formation of the state in Angola"
Paulo de Carvalho - "Exclusão social em Angola"
Paul Robson and Sandra Roque - "In search of community and collective
action in Angola"
-
Conference - Portuguese/African Encounters: An Interdisciplinary
Congress April 26-29, 2002, Watson Institute, Brown University
- Approximately 100 international participants convened to examine the
relationship between Portugal and Africa, the global effects of this
encounter, and the current state of Lusophone African studies. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Watson_Institute/programs/gs/news/portafricaconf04_02.html
- Contemporary Portuguese
Politics and History Research Centre
- Use the Search form to locate full text articles and papers by
Patrick Chabal, Malyn Newitt, Michel Cahen, etc. Has
timelines,
primary documents on the
colonial
wars such as "The
Alvor Agreement," "General
Spínola's statement on transfer of powers in Africa, Broadcast on 27
July 1974," links to institutes and web sites. The Centre held a
conference, Sept. 2000 on "The
Last Empire: 25
years of Portuguese Decolonisation." http://www.cphrc.fsnet.co.uk/
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Cuban
Armed Forces Review
- "This site is an unofficial resource compiled from public sources and
it is not affiliated with nor sanctioned by the Cuban government or its
armed forces." Has statistics on the
Cuban
Presence in Africa (1983-1984), an account from "Radio Martí - Cuban
Situation Reports (May-August 1989, No.2, Vol. 5),
The
Ochoa Affair: A Majority Faction in the Revolutionary Armed Forces?"
which includes General Ochoa in Angola. Has
Biographies of Cuban Military Commanders. Based in Flushing, New
York. http://www.cubapolidata.com/
- Digital National Security
Archives
- Full text primary sources, some in Adobe PDF format, on U.S. foreign
relations, including memos re Angola, mainly from the 1970s and
1980s. Use the Search page. Some documents are difficult to read.
The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and
library in Washington, D.C., which provides access to declassified
government documents obtained through extensive use of the US Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA). http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/
- Dovey, John -
Military Pages
- Information, articles, citations to publications, photos by South
Africans who served in Angola and Namibia. Articles include the Counter
Insurgency Manuel used re SWAPO prior to independence. Maintained by John
Dovey..http://www.lib.sun.ac.za/military/
- EBONet
- In Portuguese. Commercial internet service provider in Angola. Has
classified ads, supplies Flash de Noticias (extracts
of news articles from Angolan newspapers) - Jornal de
Angola, Agora, Jornal Desporto, Jango, Folha, Comercio Actualidade,
etc.http://www.ebonet.net/
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Foreign relations of the United States, 1964-1968. Volume 24, Africa.
Editors, Nina Davis Howland, David S. Patterson.Washington, D.C. : Office
of the Historian, U.S. Dept. of State, 1999.
- Full text primary documents (letters, telegrams, memoranda,
etc.) regarding U.S. relations with Africa. Includes the entire continent
plus Southern Africa, South Africa, Portuguese Africa. Discusses
Holden Roberto, Jonas Savimbi, Angola. (Dept. of State Publication
10627). [KF] http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_xxiv/index.html
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Fowler, Robert R. - Report of the Panel of Experts on Violations of
Security Council Sanctions against UNITA
- United Nations report (March 10, 2000, 42 pp.), regarding violations,
by various countries, of the UN sanctions against UNITA. http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/angolareport_eng.htm
- In
French: http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/angolareport_fr.htm
- Frente para a
Democracia, FpD - Front for Democracy
- In Portuguese. Political party based in Luanda, Angola, opposed to
the MPLA government. Has its Boletim de Janeiro 2000 online.
http://www.terravista.pt/Mussulo/6005/
- Front National de Liberation de
l'Angola, FNLA
- Angola political party headed by Holden Roberto. Has press
communiques, issues of their bulletin, statements by President Roberto,
an email mailing list. Site based in Paris. http://www.fnla.org/
- Frontline Fellowship
(Newlands, South Africa)
- "exist to further the cause of world evangelisation by missionary
outreach to resistant or neglected areas and groups in Southern Africa."
Has field reports
from Angola, Namibia, etc., sells books on related
topics. http://www.frontline.org.za
- Fundação Eduardo dos Santos
(Luanda)
- In Portuguese and English. Its founder is José Eduardo dos Santos,
President of Angola. One of its projects is the Universidade Nova de
Angola (UNANG). Has a
biography,
in Portuguese, of President Dos Santos, photographs. http://www.fesa.og.ao/
- Galerie Loango
- In French. Masks, sculpture from Angola, Congo (Kinshasa and
Brazzaville). Based in Strasbourg, France and Pointe-Noire, Republic of
the Congo. http://www.galerieloango.fr/
- Global Information
Network In Education (GINIE)
- Based at the University of Pittsburg, GINIE helps "provide
governments, donor and relief organizations with on-line information,
both current and historical, on crisis- and change-oriented educational
services and materials.". Their Land Mine Awareness Education Project
includes Angola, Rwanda, Somalia, Zaire.
http://www.pitt.edu/~ginie/lm
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Global Witness. "All the Presidents' Men"
- " The devastating story of oil and banking in Angola's privatised
war......the product of two years of investigations,....provides an
update on the campaign for full transparency in the oil and banking
sector. It continues an exposé, which started with December 1999's A
Crude Awakening, into the mechanisms of wholesale state robbery in
Angola." http://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/oil/index.html
- Global Witness - "Conflict
Diamonds, Possibilities for the Identification, Certification and Control
of Diamonds "
- Full text. Published May 2000. http://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/diamonds/reports.html
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Global Witness - "A Crude Awakening"
- The Role of the Oil and Banking Industries in Angola's Civil War
and the Plunder of State Assets. Full text report, Dec. 1999. Pub. by
Global Witness Ltd., London. http://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/oil/portugues/cover.htm
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Global Witness - "A Rough Trade -- The Role of Companies and
Governments in the Angolan Conflict
- Full text (London, 1999) report that "diamonds have been UNITA's
major source of revenue during the 1990's - gaining an estimated US$3.7
billion between 1992 and 19982 - which has enabled them to re-arm and
maintain supplies despite the UN sponsored peace process. UNITA has sold
its diamonds on the unofficial, 'outside'' market and has found willing
buyers [De Beers, etc.] within the diamond industry." In English and
Portuguese. http://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/diamonds/reports.html
- Great
Britian. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. "Private Military Companies:
Options for Regulation 2001-02"
- Full text, in Adobe
pdf, of a Green Paper issued Feb. 12, 2002. HC 577. (London: The
Stationery Office, 2002). Discusses Angola, Sierra Leone, Congo
(Kinshasa), other African countries, Executive Outcomes, Sandline
International, etc. Concerns options for regulating private military
companies (mercenaries). It describes the extent of the private military
company sector. http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page4423.asp
- H-Luso-Africa
- "a [moderated] discussion list [in English and Portuguese] for
people interested in the Portuguese-speaking African countries
(Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and Sao Tome)." " The
list was initiated by the Lusophone African Studies Organization (LASO).
LASO [affiliated with the African Studies Assoc. (U.S.)] is an
independent professional society established in the United States that is
open to all scholars with an interest in Lusophone Africa."
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/%7Elusoafri/
Subscribe at the H-Luso
Africa site; or send a message to:
listserv@h-net.msu.edu
Leave subject line blank
In the body of the message write: subscribe h-luso-africa yourfirstname
yourlastname
- Human Rights Watch
- Various Reports on Angola
- Angola Reports.
Full text reports. http://www.hrw.org/africa/angola.php
Forgotten
Fighters: Child Soldiers in Angola. April 2003. 26 p.
World Report 2003. Angola. http://www.hrw.org/wr2k3/africa1.html
Angola Unravels: The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process
Full text. Published Sept. 1999. 205 p. http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/angola/
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IIEP
Newsletter (Paris)
- The International Institute for Educational Planning's, July-Sept.
1998 issue has the articles: "Spotlight on education in
Portuguese-speaking Africa" and "The Mozambican experience: towards a
system of indicators for each province."
http://www.unesco.org/iiep/news/english/1998/jule98.htm
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Institute for International Cooperation & Development
(Williamstown, MA)
- Offers volunteer work in Angola. Volunteers need to provide their own
funds. "The program fees are between $3600 and $5500, depending on the
program." http://apocalypse.berkshire.net/~iicd1/angola.html
- Inter-Church Coalition on
Africa, ICCAF (Toronto)
- "...a coordinated response by Canadian Churches to promote social and
economic justice in Sub-Saharan Africa.....Three over-arching themes
permeate ICCAF's work: Human Rights, Economic Justice, and the Media
Image of Africans." Has reports on
Angola,
Congo-Kinshasa,
Kenya,
Nigeria,
Sudan,
Women's Rights.
Offers free e-mail
reports. Based in Toronto, Canada. http://www.web.net/~iccaf/
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International Crisis Group - Angola's Choice: Reform or Regress
- Full text report, in Adobe pdf. Pub. April 2003. 28 p. http://www.crisisweb.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=935
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International Crisis Group - Dealing with Savimbi's Ghost: The
Security and Humanitarian Challenges in Angola
- Full text report. 28 p.
In Adobe pdf. Pub. Feb. 26, 2003. (ICG Africa Report N°58.) "Over
100,000 ex-combatants of the former rebel group UNITA,...must be
reintegrated back into society. Millions of displaced and refugees – the
third highest dislocation rate globally – must also be resettled. And
millions of landmines must be removed – one of the heaviest infestations
in the world." ICG is "an independent, non-profit, multinational
organisation, with over 90 staff members on five continents, working
through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and
resolve deadly conflict." http://www.crisisweb.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=905
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International Monetary Fund. Angola and the IMF
- Full text reports on Angola's economy. Includes "Angola: Recent
Economic Developments" and "Angola - Statistical Annex." http://www.imf.org/external/country/AGO/index.htm
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Klein, Herbert S. Angola Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1723-1771
(1970?, 1997)
- "...contains information on the date ship sailed, name of ship,
Brazilian port of arrival, persons (adults and children) shipped, total
number of slaves aboard, physical capacity (arqueacao) of the ship." The
site is part of
Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Distributed by Data and Program Library Service University of
Wisconsin-Madison. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro6.html
- Kwacha UNITA
Press
- Site representing UNITA journalists in Bailundo, Angola. There is an
e-mail address to contact them as well as the French office in Paris.
Includes issues of their newsletter (in French, English, and Portuguese.
[KF]
http://www.kwacha.com/
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Kyle, Steven - Angola: Current Situation and Future Prospects for the
Macroeconomy
- Full text. CAER [Consulting Assistance on Economic Reform II]
Project. Discussion Paper
No. 25, 1998. See other Discussion Papers on
Angola
/ Africa - Regulation of Foreign Investment in Angola. CAER is based
at the Harvard Institute for International Development., Cambridge, MA.
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/caer2/htm/content/papers/bns/dp25bn.htm
- Luanda-Antena Comercial
(LAC)
- Radio station, in Portuguese, 95.5fm. Requires sound card, speakers,
RealPlayer. http://www.ebonet.net/lac
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Lusaka Protocol
- Full text of the 1994 agreement between the Government of the
Republic of Angola (GRA) and the Uniao Nacional para a Independencia
Total de Angola" (UNITA). In the U.S. Institute of Peace, (Washington,
D.C.) Peace Agreements Digital Collection. http://www.usip.org/library/pa/angola/lusaka_11151994.html
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Lusotopie
- "Publication annuelle internationale de recherches politiques en
sciences de l'homme, de la société et de l'environnement sur les lieux,
pays et communautés d'histoire et de langue officielle ou nationale
portugaises et luso-créoles." One can
search
for abstracts (in English, Portuguese, and French) of articles
published from 1994 to date. Edited by le Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire,
Bordeaux.
http://www.cean.u-bordeaux.fr/lusotopie/
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Madsen, Wayne - Report Alleges U.S. Role in Angola Arms-for-Oil Scandal
- May 17, 2002 article. "According to a recent report by the
British-based non-governmental organization Global Witness, Bush and US
oil interests have ties to some of the key figures in the arms-for-oil
scandal which has devastated Angola." On the San Francisco based
Corp Watch web site. http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=2576
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-
Marques, Rafael - The Case of Rafael Marques
- On the imprisonment of Angolan journalist, Rafael Marques.
"...journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques was convicted
today by an Angolan court of defamation of President José Eduardo dos
Santos and sentenced to six months in jail." - March 31, 2000 Open
Society press release. Contains articles by Marques including the article
causing him imprisonment, information on media repression, facts about
the Angolan civil war, a chronology of the war, etc. Will send email
updates on the case. From the Open Society Institute, New York. http://www.soros.org/whats_new/rafael/index.html
- Mbendi - Ashton
Mining
- Australian diamond marketer, exploration company. Operates the Cuango
River Project in Angola. See also
Angola-Diamond Mining from Mbendi. "MBendi Information Services (Pty)
Ltd is a privately owned Internet business publishing and consulting
company." Based in Cape Town, South Africa. [KF] http://www.mbendi.co.za/orgs/ci0y.htm
- Memória de África
- In Portuguese. "...pretende ser um repositório de toda a informação
relativa aos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa desde o início
do século XX até aos dias de hoje para que essa memória não se perca com
a dos homens que a protagonizam ou protagonizaram." "um projecto da
Fundação Portugal-África." http://memoria-africa.ua.pt/
- Memória Portuguesa de
África e do Orient
- In Portuguese. Site takes a while to load. Historical postcards
from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé e
Príncipe. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image. João
M.Loureiro, owner of the postcards, has published them as books which are
sold on the web site. http://www.postaisultramar.com.pt
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Miles, M - Disability & Social Responses in Some Southern African Nations
- Subtitle: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, D.R. Congo (ex Zaire),
Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. A
bibliography, with introduction and some historical items.
- A partially annotated bibliography, with c. 1,400 items, covering
monographs, journal articles, chapters of larger works, dissertations,
theses, government publications, conference papers. There is a section on
Historical Material Across Sub-Saharan Africa. For
additional citations to, mainly medical articles, see
CIRRIE's Database,
which can be searched by individual African country, by topic, title, and
author. Hosted on the site of the
Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and
Exchange, based at the State University of New York, Buffalo, New
York. [KF] http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/bibliography/SAfricatoc.html
- Muangole Noticias
- In Portuguese. Electronic journal produced by Angolans in Brazil,
Mwangole Comunicacao, Design, Marketing & Publicidade Lda.
http://www.mnoticias.8m.com/
- Musée royal de
l'Afrique centrale/Royal Museum for Central Africa
- Site of the well-known museum in Tervuren, Belgium. Information on
programs, exhibitions, publications, their
Metafro InfoSys,
"an on-line Web-based information system about the Belgian data resources
related to Central Africa, including Angola, Burundi and Rwanda."
Email: info@africamuseum.be
http://www.africamuseum.be/
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- Net Angola
- Basic information, maps, sports, fishing, business page including the
Associação Comercial de Benguela.
Based in Portugal.
http://www.netangola.com/
- Netherlands Institute
for Southern Africa (NIZA)
- "As part of the NIZA media campaign 'Freedom of Expression: Making
the Waves', three journalists/media activists travel through Malawi,
Zimbabwe, and Angola from August 11 to 26 [1998]. Has samples of the NIZA
newsletters in Dutch, links to Southern Africa-related organizations.
Site in Dutch and English. http://www.niza.nl/index.html
-
Northwestern University. Melville J. Herskovits Library of African
Studies - African Posters
- Has online images of 8 Angola-related posters, part of a larger
collection. Other posters are from anti-apartheid movements, Lusophone /
Southern Africa liberation movements, etc. http://www.library.nwu.edu/africana/collections/posters/index.html
- OCLC
NetFirst® Hot Topics: Conflict Diamonds: Diamonds and War
- February 27, 2001. OCLC annotated links to the documents and other
online resources concerning the topic of "Conflict Diamonds: Diamonds and
War". The documents listed concentrate on the issue of the illegal
diamond trade from Angola and from Sierra Leone. "OCLC is a nonprofit
membership organization serving 41,000 libraries in 82 countries and
territories around the world." [RR] http://www.oclc.org/oclc/new/hottopics/010227.htm
- Operation Angola
- In French. Concerns L'affaire Falcone involving the sale of arms to
Angola by Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, fils aîné de l'ancien président de
la République, Marc Rich and others. Has partial articles from Le
Monde, Reuters, profiles of those involved, interview with
Jean-François Bayart, etc. http://www.operation-angola.com/
- Partido Liberal Democrático
(PLD)
- In Portuguese. Political party whose President is Anália de Victória
Pereira. http://www2.ebonet.net/pld/
- Partido
Republicano de Angola (PREA), Republican Party of Angola -
Massachusetts. USA
- The founder and President is Dr. Carlos Contreiras. "The Republican
Party of Angola- (Partido Republicano de Angola-PREA) is a voluntary
political, nonprofit organization formed in March 14 1988, and founded in
August 1994 in the United States of America (USA). PREA party is the
third Angola’s largest political party;..." Web site based in Brockton,
Massachusetts.
Email: drcontreiras@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Bureau/6011
Tribunal Kwanza Online
In Portuguese and English. Independent newspaper of the Republican Party
of Angola (Partido Republicano de Angola. http://www.geocities.com/tribunalkwanzaol/index.htm
Email:
tribunalkwanzaol@yahoo.com
Organização
Republicana da Juventude Angolana-O.R.J.A. Angolan Republican Youth
In Portuguese and English. The Angolan Republican Youth organization is
affiliated with the Republican Party of Angola (PREA). It is opposed to
the present Angolan government. http://www.geocities.com/orja_angola/index.htm
Email: orja_angola@yahoo.com
- Partnership Africa Canada . Hard Currency:
The Criminalized Diamond Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
and its Neighbours
- In English and French. Full text report,
in Adobe
pdf, and
Summary
(in pdf). "links the wars in Angola and the Congo, along with other
conflicts in Central Africa, to the massive illicit trade in conflict
diamonds." Discusses the DRC, Angola, the Central African
Republic, Congo-Brazzaville and the Kimberley Process, a proposed
global diamond certification system. The
Partnership
is based in Ottawa, Canada.
- Paz para Angola
- "fostering the reconciliation process in Angola. It allows for civil
society groups to post information on the conflict in Angola; to discuss
programs and chat." Has reports from Medecins sans Frontieres, reports on
NGO assistance for Angola, events in the U.S., peace movement news,
Angola opposition party news, etc. [KF] http://www.pazangola.org/
- O
Pensador
- E version of the print bi-monthly newsletter of the Embassy of
Angola, Washington, D.C. Includes past issues.
http://www.angola.org/news/pensador/index.html
- Pensador - Business in Angola
- Directory of Angola businesses and related organizations. Based in
Backe, Sweden. http://www.pensador.com/
- Planad
- Luanda company selling office equipment, bank ATM machines, software,
etc. http://www.planad.co.ao/
-
Prendergast, John - "Angola's Deadly War: Dealing with Savimbi's Hell on
Earth"
- "This Special Report results from John Prendergast's trip to Angola
and neighboring countries during September 1999. He met with
representatives of the Angolan government, Angolan civil society, the
diplomatic community, and international nongovernmental organizations."
Published Oct. 1999 by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Available in Adobe
PDF format (11 p.) and html. Includes a map of Angola. http://www.usip.org/oc/sr/sr991012/sr991012nb.html
- Radio Ecclesia
- In Portuguese. A Catholic radio station in Angola which carries news
including very brief selections from Angolan newspapers, important
documents such as statements from the Catholic Bishops of Angola and Sao
Tome. For those with sound cards and Realplayer, click on the satellite
dish icon to listen to the news. http://ecclesia.snet.co.ao
- Radio Nacional de Angola
(Luanda)
- In Portuguese. Has the program schedule. http://www.rna.ao/
- Radio
Netherlands - Angola Picking up the Pieces
- Issues confronting Angola after over 25 years of civil war. Report by
Tony Hodges. Audio and video with numerous personal testimonies.
Includes the origins of the war, AIDS in Angola, the informal
economy,
UNITA's radio station "A Voz da Resistência do Galo Negro (VORGAN) -
Voice of the Resistance of the Black Cockerel," human rights abuses, the
lasting legacy of landmines, family re-unification, biographies of
José Eduardo dos Santos and Jonas Savimbi. Offers for
academic
institutions and non-governmental organisations a free cd-rom of the
Angola program. [KF] http://www.rnw.nl/humanrights/html/angola.html
-
Religion in Angola - Eric Morier-Genoud
- Directory of web sites on religion in Angola. Maintained by E.
Morier-Genoud, webmaster for
Le Fait
Missionnaire. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/emorier/Angola.htm
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Rosenn, Keith S. - Regulation of Foreign Investment in Angola
- "This portion of the report will focus on the laws and decrees by
which Angola regulates foreign investment." CAER [Consulting Assistance
on Economic Reform II]
Discussion
Paper No. 12, December 1997. CAER is based at the Harvard Institute
for International Development., Cambridge, MA. http://www.hiid.harvard.edu/projects/caer/papers/paper12.html
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Rothchild, Donald - Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Pressures
and Incentives for Cooperation
- Full text of the book, includes chapters on Angola, South
Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe. The entire book is keyword searchable.
(Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c1997. 343 p.) http://brookings.nap.edu/books/0815775938/html/index.html
Also at the Brookings site is the full text of
Mixed
Messages: American Politics and International Organization 1919-1999
by Edward C. Luck. (Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press,
c1999. 374 p.)
- Rural
Women, Population & Development in Lusophone Africa: Annotated
Bibliography of Selected Literature in Portuguese Language 1991 - 1996
- Prepared by Zoran Roca. Covers Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau,
Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe. From the Population Information
Network (POPIN) of the United Nations Population Division (DESIPA), in
collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations. http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/x0258e/x0258e00.htm and Older site:
http://www.un.org/popin/fao/lusophone.html
-
Sentinel Projects
- A publisher of personal accounts of South African conscripts in the
South African Defense Force between 1975 and 1994 with many references to
Namibia. Has links to a web site which contains the
discussion from Army-Talk, an
email discussion list on the South African military (mainly recent events
such as Cuito Cuanavale). Has a draft report by Barry Fowler of his South
African Border Duty as a psychologist 22 June-Oct. 1, 1987. Maintained by
Barry Fowler of Sentinel Projects. http://www.geocities.com/sadfbook/index.html
- South African Daily News
Briefings, - Omar C. Jadwat
- Jadwat (formerly at Yale Univ.) has arranged the daily news stories
(provided at the ANC web site) by date, subject, and length of article.
The news articles and press releases are from the South African Press
Association, AFP, and the ANC. Most concern South Africa but
other Southern African countries are sometimes included. [KF]
http://www.bibim.com/anc
- [South
African Defence Force] Unofficial SADF Information Page
- "information relating to the relatively recent history of the South
African Defence Force." Has full text selections of
personal accounts of South African military personnel who served in
Angola, Namibia, and elsewhere. Maintained by Paul
Anderson. Part of the South African Military Web Ring. http://www.geocities.com/odjobman/index.htm
- Southscan (London)
- E version of the respected print bulletin of Southern African
affairs. Has the table of contents for issues from 1994 +
http://www.gn.apc.org/southscan/
- Swiss
Peace. FAST Early Warning System - Angola
- Has risk assessment, conflict analysis reports for 2002, 2003.
Reports are c. 7-8 pages in Adobe pdf. Their Angola specialist is Dr.
Hussein Solomon. Swiss Peace is
a peace research institute founded in 1988. "FAST
aims at enhancing the political decision makers' ability to identify
critical developments in a timely manner [to] ......prevent or limit
destructive effects of violent conflict..."
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- An older report is
Angola, A Case Study of Aggression, Avarice and Anguish, by
Hussein Solomon. 2000 37 p. The study includes Key dates in Angola's
recent history (from 1956) and an Interview with Jonas Savimbi. Based in
Bern, Switzerland. http://www.swisspeace.org/fast/afrika_angola.htm
- União
Democrática National De Angola / National Democratic Union of Angola (UDNA)
- "Founded in the late 80's from UDA (Association of Angolan
Democrats), an Angolan underground movement, formed and operating from
London by an exiled politician during the era of one-party Marxists state
in Angola. It became a full-fledge political party after being recognised
by Supreme Court of the country in 1994." http://www.framework.co.za/dua/angola/udna.html
- União Nacional para a
Independência Total de Angola (UNITA)
- In Portuguese. Party opposing the Angolan government, led by
President Jonas Savimbi (killed by the Angolan army February 2002). Party
manifesto and program, party documents. http://www.unita.org/
See also Kwacha UNITA Press
Demain, UNITA. - Association Franco-Africaine pour la
Renaissance et la Démocratie - Has UNITA communiques, articles, extracts from Jonas Savimbi's book,
"Combats pour l'Afrique et la démocratie," photographs, etc.
http://www.afard-unita.asso.fr/
- United Methodist Church. General
Commission on Archives and History
- Based in Madison, New Jersey. http://www.gcah.org/
Has online guides to the
Church archives and guide
to collections such as -
the Herbert Cookman Withey Collection (late 19th c. in
Angola)
Bishop John McKendree Springer Papers (correspondence with African
nationals, the Congo Protestant Council, 1920-1961, Angola,
etc.)
- United Nations ReliefWeb
- Very
current news on Angola. Managed by the UN Dept. of Humanitarian
Affairs. http://www.reliefweb.int
-
United States - Angola Chamber of Commerce
- Has information on the Chamber, its advisors/directors/staff,
business opportunities in Angola, a list of Chamber members, a letter
from President Dos Santos, a page of current news, their newsletter. [KF]
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/usacc
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U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency. Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members - Angola
- Provides a list of the President, Cabinet members, the Governor of
the Central Bank, the country's Ambassador to the U.S., and its U.N.
Representative. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/chiefs4.html
-
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook - Angola
- Has a map, information on geography, people, government, economy,
transportation, communication, defense. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ao.html
- United States Congress
- Thomas, U.S. Legislative Information, is a great resource.
Keyword search access to the full text of the
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD (similar to parliamentary
proceedings or debates) and to Congressional legislation. Scroll down
half way to locate the Congressional Record Text: Congress: 105th
(1997-98) - 104th (1995-96) - 103rd (1993-94)
http://thomas.loc.gov/
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations.
Subcommittee on Africa. Angola: Prospects for Durable Peace and
Economic Reconstruction
- Hearing, June 13, 2002. Speakers include Honorable Edward R.
Royce, Honorable Donald M. Payne, Honorable Walter H. Kansteiner, III,
Honorable George Chicoti, Mr. Lukamba Paulo Gato, Reverend Daniel
Ntoni-Nzinga, Ph.D. Hearing transcript. 41 p. / 790 KB
In Adobe
pdf. Has Webcast Video (requires soundcard, headset, Real Player).
http://www.house.gov/international_relations/afhear.htm
-
United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations.
Subcommittee on Africa. Angola's Government of National Unity.
- Full text of the April 1997 hearing. Includes statements from
Angola's Ambassador to the U.S., Antonio dos Santos Franca, George M.
Moose, Donald M. Payne, and others. Located thru
Thomas, the U.S. Library of Congress
site for Congressional information.
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa41594.000/hfa41594_0f.htm
- United States. Department of State. Report on Human Rights
Practices - Angola
- 2002
Report,
2001
Report,
2000 Report,
1999 Report,
1998 Report,
1997 Report,
1996 Report
1995, 1994, 1993: http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/hrp_reports_mainhp.html
- United States.
Embassy. Angola
- Information on U.S. and Angolan
holidays,
U.S.
aid to Angola, information for business
travelers to Angola, a welcome packet for people moving to Angola
(do's and don'ts), visa information for travelers to the U.S., etc.
http://usembassy.state.gov/angola/
- United States.
Energy Information Administration. Country Analysis Brief on Angola
- Information on Angola oil, natural gas, electricity and coal. Has an
economic, energy, and environment overview and information on
political/economic factors affecting the energy sector. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/angola.htm
and http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/angola.html
See also the
Energy
Data page at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/angola.html
- United States
European Command - Angola
- Has recent press releases, links to older U.N. Security Council
resolutions on Angola, other Angola-related web sites. http://www.eucom.mil/AOR/Africa/angola.htm
- United
States. Library of Congress. Country/Area Studies Handbook - Angola: a
Country Study
- A major study of the "social, political, economic, and military
aspects of Angolan society.". The authors of various chapters are Rachel
Warner, Nancy Clark, Rita M. Byrnes, and Joseph P. Smaldone. Part of a
series of books "prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library
of Congress...". One can search the various country studies across all
countries or any combination of countries and browse the table of
contents for a specific country.
Angola Page:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/aotoc.html
LC Country Studies:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
- United
States. Library of Congress, Guide to Law Online: Angola
- Includes Angola in the GLIN Database, links to the US CIA Chiefs of
State/Cabinet Members site, the U.S. State Dept. human rights reports and
travel advisories, Yahoo's Angola sites, etc. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/angola.html
- United States Mission to
Angola (American Embassy, Luanda)
- Includes Embassy
staff, travel information, doing business in Angola, U.S. and Angolan
holidays, USAID, etc. http://www.ebonet.net/usangola/
- Universidade Agostinho Neto
- In Portuguese. Information from the web site of AULP - Associação das
Universidades de Língua Portuguesa. http://www.aulp.ao/tres.htm
- Universidade Católica de
Angola (UCAN)
- In Portuguese. Information on the faculty, library, the newsletter,
Ondjango. http://www.ucan.edu/
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples
Organisation (UNPO) (The Hague, Netherlands)
- "an international organisation created by nations and peoples around
the world, who are not represented as such in the world´s principal
international organisations, such as the United Nations."
Cabinda
is a member of the UNPO. Facts about Cabinda, their flag, UNPO
documents concerning Cabinda. http://www.unpo.org/
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