CABO LEDO, Angola (Reuters Life!) - It used to be unthinkable for even the most daredevil surfers to venture south of Luanda toward the beach of Cabo Ledo during almost four decades of wars in the ...

Fifty years ago today, Angola gained its independence after centuries of Portuguese domination. But US officials like Henry Kissinger were already working hard to orchestrate a devastating proxy war ...

In the early hours of a humid November morning in 1975, the runway at Luanda’s airport was alive with anxiety and the roar of a jet engine. Cabinda Gulf Oil, now Chevron, had chartered a South African ...

Walter Suza of Ames, Iowa, writes frequently on the intersections of spirituality, anti-racism and social justice. One step. … Thirty steps. Click! I stopped walking. My body began to tremble. My ...

"I was defending this area during the war," Domingo Seiala explains hunched over his rusted crutches -- a constant reminder of the injuries he sustained during the Angolan civil war. Former soldiers ...

In 1997, Portuguese journalist Pedro Rosa Mendes traveled across Angola, determined to convey the human costs of a civil war that barely registers in the West. "Bay of Tigers: An African Odyssey" ...

Analysis - If hypocrisy needed a railway, it would look exactly like the Lobito Corridor. It is being hailed as a symbol of African progress. In truth, it is a mirror of everything negative the ...

LUANDA, July 9 (Reuters) - Angola said on Friday it was open to talks with separatist group FLEC after its exiled leaders announced an end to their armed struggle for control of the country's ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 28, No. 90, Patrimonialism & Petro-Diamond Capitalism: Peace, Geopolitics & the Economics of War in Angola (Dec., 2001), pp. 607-618 (12 pages) ...

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