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• Does the rest of Africa get off light?
Other oil producers that have managed to avoid international condemnation include Angola, which hasn't held a presidential election since 1992, and Gabon, where President Omar Bongo seized power in a 1967 coup and now reigns as Africa's longest ...
• U.S. / Europe: Sales
While the grueling working conditions for many of the diamond miners in sub-Saharan Africa and the pockmarked past of the illicit diamond trade’s funding conflicts in Sierra Leone and Angola in the 1990s are disconcerting, there are signs of hope ...
• Africa: Trade
The African diamond industry came under pressure in the late 1990s when it became clear that conflict diamonds were playing a role in the brutal wars in Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The term conflict diamonds ...
• Africa: Mining
DRC’s vast mineral resources, including diamonds, fueled a regional war that included Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Rwanda from 1998-2003 and resulted in the deaths of an estimated 4 million people. DRC was also a key smuggling route for ...
• Pizza Hut waitress gets $10,000 tip - Wonderful World- msnbc.com
ANGOLA, Ind. - A family of regulars at a northeastern Indiana Pizza Hut liked their waitress so much, they gave her $10,000. The family — a mother and two sons — stopped in ...

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• Regional: Africa: Angola: Society and Culture: History  (4)

» Angola Diamond Mining and War - A report on the economic background of the conflict by Lloyd R. Lewis.
» Angola: Savimbi is dead - Official statement on the death of Joseph Savimbi, with a brief biography.
» BBC: The Angolan conflict - The special report, compiled in January 1999, looks at the slide back to conflict, the suffering and the reasons.


» Jonas Savimbi - A portrait of the dead guerilla leader by Eric S. Margolis. (March 4, 2002)