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 | | Kurdistan (province) Kordestan is one of the 28 Iraq. | | | Burgos (province) and a population of 352,273 (2002) of whom nearly half live in the capital. | | | Kahramanmaras Province History Kahramanmaras was known historically as Maras and was a settlement since pre-historic tim... |
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| | Angola RNIS Acticles |
| | As of January 2002 it was reported that there were 95,698 registered IDPs in the province with a reported 419,239. | | | Moxico has been the sight of much insecurity over the reporting period and was the province where Jonas Savimbi, the leader of UNITA, was killed in February 2002. | | | Whilst much of the country is reported to be insecure, fighting has been focused on Bengo, Bie, Huambo, Huila, Luanda Sul, Malanje and Moxico provinces, which are considered to be the political heartland of the country (OCHA 26/09/01). |
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http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/RNIS/countries/angola_all.htm
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| | Comparative data indicates that 3900 new cases have been notified in the first trimester of 2001 against 590 reported in the fourth trimester of the last year. | | | In the first semester of 2001 about 22 suspected cases of Meningitis were reported with 12 deaths in Benguela. | | | In the first three weeks of July 22 more cases with 5 deaths have been claimed to be meningitis. |
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http://www.who.int/disasters/repo/7300.doc
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| | Permanent Mission of Angola to the United Nations |
| | He spoke of the rebuilding of facilities destroyed in the war, especially bridges, so as to make it possible to restore government structures and, as a consequence, to enable political parties to establish themselves freely in the country and conduct their election campaigns. | | | Speaking to the Angop news agency on 19 February, Carlos Guardado, provincial director of Fas, said they had met the target set, despite constraints of many kinds. | | | Two locomotives had been put on the line, the embankment of the bridge over the Sapa (Benguela) had been rebuilt, and demining and building materials had been acquired in Italy, among other things done. |
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http://www.un.int/angola/newsletter02.htm
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| | USAID: Transition Initiatives: Angola field report |
| | UNITA officials have called for investigations of the incidents, while MPLA officials continue to deny any systematic plans to implement attacks on UNITA. | | | UNITA party officials continued to complain about harassment and attacks on party members and offices. | | | Press reported that gangs of youth wearing t-shirts with MPLA party logos attacked two of UNITA's regional offices in Huambo province, which was a UNITA stronghold during the war. |
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http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/transition_initiatives/country/angola/rpt0803.html
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| | NATIONAL PRIVATE INVESTMENT AGENCY |
| | Benguela, 04/25 - China`s Ambassador to Angola, Zhang Beisan, on Thursday here reaffirmed his country`s support for social projects being carried out in the Central Benguela city, under the bilateral cooperation with the Angolan Government. | | | Benguela, 08/25 - The entrepreneurial programme for Angola that has been drawn by the UNDP will support the country`s process of national reconstruction in the sectors of professional training and micro-firms. | | | And it was from Benguela that came out the majority of settlers that founded cities to the East. |
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http://www.iie-angola-us.org/benguela.htm
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| | Winne.com - Report on Angola - Angola's tormented path to petro-diamond led growth |
| | Consequently, the port itself, the province and the society will be developed by this project" concludes Mr. | | | The Province of Namibe may already be classified as an exception as such when considering its location and more especially the fact that it is the only province that has never been affected by the war. | | | Xirimbimbi has all the reasons to remain optimistic as he recently confided that a five-year project to rehabilitate the province had just been approved. |
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Angola Humanitarian Situation Report 09 Oct - 04 Nov 1997 |
| | The Malongo Mission believes that the same groups responsible for the incidents in Hanha Mission are also behind the attack against populations in Rio Coporolo area. | | | Chongoroi, Benguela Province: on Monday 27 October, the SBF personnel reported to MONUA about firing going on near their main camp in Chongoroi, located some 100 meters from the town. | | | Andulo, Bié Province: According to the local UNITA authorities, there are some 5,000 persons in Andulo, who came mostly from Jamba and are scattered among the resident population, as there is no gathering site for them. |
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http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/b29d9639523f01d1c1256559003c6d21
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| | WHO 2001 - Meningooccal disease in Angola - Update 2 |
| | As of 2 October, a total of 332 cases and 30 deaths has been reported to WHO from Angola. | | | The epidemic reported in Balombo district in Benguela province earlier this year is now over, following a vaccination campaign. | | | Cases continue to be reported from Cunene province. |
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http://www.who.int/csr/don/2001_10_10c/en
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| | Lincolnshire Post-Polio Network - NewsBites Archive April 1999 |
| | Johannesburg - More than half a million children living in and around the Angolan capital, Luanda, have been vaccinated in an emergency campaign against polio which has already claimed 30 lives. | | | Until the present moment, 7 cases were reported in Benguela Province (with three deaths) and two in Icolo-e-Bengo municipality in Bengo Province," the UCAH report said. | | | "As of 19 April, the total number of reported cases in Luanda Province was 487, while the death toll was 30. |
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| | Angola - OCHA: 28-Oct-03 |
| | OCHA Situation Report Angola 15 - 30 September 2003 28 October 2003 | | | Benguela Province: During the reporting period, almost 370 people were living in the Benguela transit centre Tchapiandalu, 5 km outside the city centre, due to lack of onward transportation. | | | During the reporting period one death and 17 new cases were recorded bringing the overall toll as of the last week of September to 139 cases and 74 deaths. |
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| | Benguela Province Profile |
| | From Benguela colonists spread further east, founding the eastern cities of Catengue, Ganda, Cubal, Quinjenje, Cuma, Longonjo, Lepi and Caala. | | | As a result Benguela became known as City, Mother of Cities. | | | Manuel Cerveira Pereira founded S. Filipe de Benguela, an outpost that was to become the base camp for penetration further inland. |
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| | Angola - OCHA: 10-Jul-03 |
| | Provinces with the largest concentrations of IDPs include Kuando Kubango, Moxico, Malanje and Huíla. On 19 June, the Government of Angola declared that all of the gathering areas were officially closed. | | | Resettlement and Return The Government reports that as of mid-June, approximately 2.34 million IDPs had returned to areas of origin, primarily in the provinces of Huambo, Benguela, Kuanza Sul and Bié. | | | UNAIDS has been working closely with the Government to develop a National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS for 2003 - 2008. |
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| | Angola - OCHA: 30-Jun-03 |
| | This type of return movement also took place earlier in the year when people left Matala for Kutenda and Chicomba, only to return a few weeks later due to lack of support in their places of origin. | | | Pockets of malnutrition reported in eastern Huambo Province. | | | Kuando Kubango Province: Significant movements of demobilised and their families took place during the reporting period. |
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http://iys.cidi.org/humanitarian/hsr/03a/ixl149.html
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| | Angola - OCHA: 28-Oct-03 |
| | A meningitis outbreak has been confirmed in Huíla Province and a significant number of cases have been reported in Malanje Province. | | | An additional 108 demobilised soldiers and their dependents arrived from the former Menga gathering area in Huambo and humanitarian partners report that the people in the new camp are living in substandard conditions. | | | Benguela Province: During the reporting period, local authorities closed the Benguela transit centre located in a former military quartering camp and moved the 250 people to the new Capiandalo transit centre approximately five km outside the city centre. |
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| | A total of 297 cases of meningitis and 31 related deaths were reported in 15 provinces during the same period. | | | The largest numbers of cases were recorded in the provinces Uíge (277 cases), Kuanza Sul (128 cases), Benguela (120 cases), Huambo (113 cases) and Huíla (112 cases). | | | Vaccine preventable diseases continued to be reported, particularly in previously inaccessible areas where vaccination programmes have been either infrequent or non-existent. |
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| | This marked a return to full-blown civil war. | | | UNITA's strategy was one of brinkmanship, in clear violation of the May 1991 Bicesse peace accords. | | | Reports from the central and northern provinces indicated that both sides have engaged in killings and intimidation of civilians, especially if they were not from the home ethnic group. |
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| | The Namibian Africa News Angolan army captures key Unita military base |
| | The reports quoted Benguela governor Dumilde Rangel as saying that Cassembe, some 700 kilometres south of Luanda, had been a key political and military base of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita). | | | The capture of the base comes at a time when government troops appear to have launched a fresh offensive against Unita, after the rebel movement led by Jonas Savimbi itself had intensified attacks on a number of fronts in recent weeks. | | | Savimbi acknowledged on June 3 that Unita troops had been routed by the Luanda army in conventional warfare in 1998, which he said justified a decision to switch to guerrilla tactics. |
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| | Winne.com - Report on Angola - Angola's tormented path to petro-diamond led growth |
| | Nowardays, because of the war, Benguela now occupies the second place. | | | Another significant project is the construction of the Lobito refinery with an estimated cost of 3billion$ and which should start operating by mid 2006, according to our interview with Mr. | | | This is the electronic edition of the special country report on Angola published in Forbes Global Magazine. |
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| | UNICEF - At a glance: Angola - Angola: Debate and drama teach life skills to adolescents |
| | UNICEF supports the centre, which is run by members of Caritas, an international, non-profit organization. | | | Theatre activities are coordinated by a youth-run organization called Twayovoka, which performs and trains other youth theatre groups at other centres of its kind. | | | Tension hung in the air as a heated debate, sparked by a comment made by eighteen-year-old Domingas Rodriguez, raged inside the Benguela Youth Centre - where no topic is taboo. |
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| | International Spotlight: Angola |
| | According to Benguela Governor Dumilde Rangel, "The port rehabilitation program, which is being executed by a German company, is linked to the recent oil discoveries. | | | The port is also key to large scale fishing, which is a major economic activity in the province – the total catch for 2001 was over 30,000 tons. | | | A 24,500 acre site has already been identified for the refinery and supporting industries. |
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| | Angolan Embassy |
| | Njinga Mbande became Queen of Matamba in 1624. | | | 15 - Church of Jesus -- 1636 (Province of Luanda) Located at the Largo do Palacio in Cidade Alta, the Church of Jesus is the best preserved baroque-style church in Luanda. | | | The top of the twin tower, however, was not completed until the 19th century. |
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| | Rebuilding education system vital, UNICEF |
| | We hope, and are confident, that government has seen the value of the back-to-school campaign that has led to the announcement that government had budgeted US $40 million for 29,000 teachers for 2004," Elder said. | | | On Thursday the official news agency Angola Press (ANGOP) reported that at least 9,000 children in the Cubal district of Benguela province were not in school because of a shortage of teachers. | | | UNICEF spokesman James Elder told IRIN the state of affairs in Benguela was symptomatic of the larger problems in the education system in Angola. |
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| | Angola News Index |
| | In this way, the Government intends to dynamize the two areas, so as to present to national entrepreneurs, in the coming days, Polish products, with the aim of taking advantage of possible facilities in the modality of payment to be presented. | | | Benguela, 12/15 The Angolan authorities might sign next year a cooperation protocol with the Polish Government, in fishery and transport, aiming at recovering and modernizing the two sectors. | | | The information was given today by the governor of the coastal Benguela province, Dumilde Rangel, at the end of an audience with the Polish ambassador to Angola, Eugeniusz Rzewuski, who is in the province since last Sunday to check the potentials of this region. |
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| | ANGOLA NATIONAL PRIVATE INVESTMENT AGENCY |
| | Currently, the working brigades are engaged in the connection between the Benguela province`s Lobito port city with Huambo, the source said. | | | Luanda, 02/10 - The rehabilitation of the Lobito/Huambo 450-kilometre railroad will be complete by the end of December this year, the director general of the Benguela Railway (CFB) told journalists today in Luanda. | | | He said that most of the material and equipment purchased by CFB for the rehabilitation of the railway are already in the country. |
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| | AngolaPress - News |
| | Benguela Delegate of Justice, Alberto Pereira, who was speaking to Angop, said the Province awaits for orientations for the setting up of at least 15 registration brigades. | | | Benguela, 08/05- Justice sector in the Central Benguela Province is already working to create conditions to hold the adults registration campaign, which will take place countrywide, in the ambit of the next general elections expected for 2006, an official source told Angop. | | | Benguela: German Organisation Ready To Participate In Country`s Reconstruction |
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| | Humana People to People |
| | The national television station TVN is promoting the work Humana People to People in Poland is doing through selling second hand clothes. | | | Skills training for demobilised soldiers in Benguela province, Angola | | | The HOPE project in Durban is reaching out to more than 8.000 people with information on HIV/AIDS in the inner and outer west districts of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. |
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| | Portuguese language - encyclopedia article about Portuguese language. |
| | Angola Angola is a country in southwestern Africa bordering Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean. | | | A former Portuguese colony, it has considerable natural resources, among which oil and diamonds are the most relevant. | | | Portuguese language speakers are known as Lusophone (in Portuguese, Lusófonos), after the Roman name for the province of Lusitania. |
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| | allAfrica.com: Angola |
| | The vice director for Africa of the United States Agency for International Development "USAID", Patrick Fine, manifested Wednesday, in Luanda, how impressed he was with the quality of the AIDS-based projects implemented with the funding from his agency. | | | Angola's National Police logistics specialists in northern Malanje province are meeting since Wednesday here at their First Broad Consultative Council to discuss issues related to new planning methods. | | | At least 10,5 hectares of arable land will be cultivated by associate peasants in the district of Seles, Angola's central Kwanza-Sul province, under the 2005/2006 farming campaign that started on 15 September this year. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Angola - Operations Angolan Information Resource |
| | Villagers in Benguela Province showing support for the government at an impromptu rally | | | In addition to a chronic shortage of cadres, the MPLA-PT faced numerous obstacles in its first decade as a ruling body. |
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| | U.S. Treasury - Recent OFAC Actions: 05/08/2003 p.m. |
| | SIMOES, Alcides Sakala), UNITA Foreign Affairs Secretary; DOB 23 Dec 1953; POB Bailundo, Huambo Province, Angola (individual) [UNITA] | | | TCHACALA, Alcides), UNITA Foreign Affairs Secretary; DOB 23 Dec 1953; POB Bailundo, Huambo Province, Angola (individual) [UNITA] |
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| | AngolaPress - Info |
| | The information was supplied by the secretary general of the provincial association of basketball, Francisco Boavida, who said all arrangements are being made for the organisation of the tournament as planned. | | | He announced that Benguela will be represented to the championship by "Casa do Pessoal do Porto do Lobito" and "Sporting de Benguela". | | | Benguela, 12/28 - Central Benguela province will host the 2004 edition of the Angola`s national male juniors championship of basketball starting on 11 January 2005, Angop learned. |
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