Between 1975 and 2002, Angola was locked in one of the world’s bloodiest wars. About half a million people lost their lives in the conflict, which saw two former liberation movements face off against ...

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 abandoned mud ...

JOHANNESBURG — Angola‘s long-running civil war killed off the country’s film industry, but now the violent conflict is the subject of the first local feature to be made in 20 years. Portuguese ...

LUANDA (Reuters) - José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola for nearly four decades, winning a brutal civil war and overseeing an oil-fuelled boom that did little to alleviate poverty, died on Friday ...

President Bush called Tuesday for a cease-fire in Angola following the death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, telling President Jose Eduardo dos Santos to "seize this moment" to end 26 years of war. The ...

LUANDA, Angola — A year after elections that were supposed to set Angola on the path to freedom and prosperity, this country is worse off than ever before — worse, some believe, than Somalia or Bosnia ...

My wife is Portuguese. Actually, she's of mixed Portuguese and Angolan descent. Her mother and father fled Luanda during the first years of the Angolan civil war, and settled in Lisbon. We now live in ...

Angola has its first ever Man Booker International Prize nominee. José Eduardo Agualusa's A General Theory of Oblivion recounts the tale of one woman's isolationist reaction to the southern African ...

Africa’s longest war officially ended Sunday with the signing of a peace treaty between Angola’s main protagonists. Whether the 19-year struggle actually will end remains in doubt, given its record of ...

Thousands of people celebrated by shouting "We want peace!" in the capital of Angola on Wednesday because their government and the guerrillas who have been fighting it for 16 years agreed to stop a ...

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