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… ...

Funk Before War In Angola As far back as the 1960s, there was a thriving recording industry in Angola. But the music released before the country's independence from Portugal and brutal civil war ...

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 ...

Angola has the world’s highest infant mortality rate: 191 deaths for every 1,000 babies. Many rural roads and bridges remain wrecked from the war, and many areas are still littered with land mines.

Africa’s longest running war was formally brought to an end on April 4 when the two sides in Angola’s civil war signed a peace deal after a 26-year conflict that began when the country was ...

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 ...