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When Feliesiano Muteca started surfing a decade ago, he had the waves at Cabo Ledo on Angola's long Atlantic coastline pretty ...
Angola was torn apart by war. But this wasn’t just a local conflict. It was a Cold War showdown—with diamonds, oil, and lives ...
This rocket-shattered village on the desolate plains of northern Angola doesn’t look like the front line of an ugly new kind of war in Africa.Everything seems too dismally familiar. The ...
A cloudless desert sky, shimmering like polished chrome. A desolate plain, littered with stones, unfolding to all horizons. A vast and ancient stillness. And in this wilderness of dust, the tiny fo… ...
Aceria de Angola is a company that is turning old weapons — rifles, tanks — into steel beams. It was founded by a baker, whose business was destroyed by the bloody civil war. But the spoils ...
November 9, 2007: The government is still dealing with the political after-effects of its long-running civil war with the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the National ...
João, an Angolan diamond miner or garimpeiro in Lunda Sul, the dream of diamond riches fades under false hope, armed guards ...
The Angolan war, now entering its fifth decade, initially coincided with a period of intense Cold War rivalry but has continued unabated thereafter, reflecting remarkable adaptive characteristics and ...
Set at end of Angola's Independence War in 1974, the film gives dual perspective through a local girl and a young Portuguese soldier. Wide swoops on Angola war drama Locarno Competition Title ...
The giant sable antelope was on the brink of extinction after the country’s civil war, until Pedro Vaz Pinto, director of the Kissama Foundation, devised a plan to save the species.