20111007
Reuters
LISBON (Reuters) - Angola's main opposition party UNITA plans to hold a leadership contest in December with its head, Isaias Samakuva, facing calls for his resignation, state news agency Angop said on Thursday.

20110926
Reuters
LISBON (Reuters) - Angolan police on Sunday blocked about 100 protesters from marching through the capital, said Portugal's state news agency, in the second youth rally in under a month demanding President Jose Eduardo dos Santos relinquish power after 32 years.

20110913
Reuters
LISBON (Reuters) - An Angolan court on Monday sentenced 17 people to prison sentences of up to three months for their involvement in an anti-government rally on September 3 that resulted in violent clashes in the capital Luanda, Voice of America (VOA) reported.

20110904
Reuters
LISBON (Reuters) - Angolan authorities arrested 24 people at an anti-government youth rally in the capital Luanda on Saturday during which several protesters, journalists and police officers were injured, according to media reports.

20110817
Reuters
LISBON (Reuters) - Lawmakers from the Angolan opposition party UNITA walked out of a key parliament debate on Tuesday, accusing the ruling MPLA of undermining the independence of the national elections committee ahead of a ballot next year, state news agency Angop reported.

20110421
angop
Luanda – Matters concerning academic and professional training of youths were discussed Wednesday in Luanda by the ministers of Education and Higher Education and Science and Technology, Mpinda Simão and Maria de Cândida Pereira Teixeira, respectively, and the national first secretary of the ruling party’s youth wing (JMPLA), Sérgio Luther Rescova.

20110408
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Standard Bank, Africa's biggest bank by assets, plans to open 12 new branches in Angola this year, bank officials said on Friday.

20110315
Daily nation

New York — A ship carrying military weapons belonging to Kenya is still being held in Angola, the US revealed on Tuesday.

20110213
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Systematic sexual violence continues to be carried out against Congolese women and girls caught up in mass expulsions from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a U.N. envoy said on Friday.

20110121
UN News

Top officials from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are arriving in Angola this weekend to help boost the Government's efforts to halt an ongoing polio outbreak centred in the capital, Luanda.

20110120
angop
Havana - Angola's vice-president, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, on Wednesday in Havana laid a wreath by the monument of Cuban hero, José Martí, Angop learnt.

20100927
africanews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Monday it had approved a $353 million loan for Angola following reviews of its program and urged authorities to move swiftly to clear the bulk of domestic arrears.

20100913
africanews

LUANDA (Reuters) - Higher exports and oil prices have helped Angola's economy recover in 2010, while companies are spending more now that the government has started to pay off some of its debt, the deputy governor of the country's central bank said on Monday.

20100911
africanews

LUANDA (Reuters) - The campaign for Angola's 2012 elections is off to a ill-tempered start with the ruling MPLA party and the opposition UNITA party accusing each other of dirty tactics that threaten a return to violence in the oil producing nation.

20100906
reuters

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola's ruling MPLA party brushed aside reports of corruption involving senior government officials earlier this year as a smear campaign aimed at hurting the party ahead of general elections in 2012.

20100904
africanews

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola announced on Friday an $18 billion plan to overhaul its dams and power grids and end all power cuts by 2016.

20100809
reuters

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola's ruling party will meet this week to examine a private report accusing members of the president's inner circle of corruption, a spokesman said on Monday.

20100806
reuters

Responding to Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos's call for a zero-tolerance policy on corruption on 21 November 2009, Rafael Marques de Morais reports on the business dealings of three figures representing a 'triumvirate that today dominates Angola's political economy': General Manuel Hélder Vieira Dias Júnior "Kopelipa", General Leopoldino Fragoso do Nascimento "Dino" and Manuel Vicente.

20100803
reuters

LUANDA (Reuters) - Four Angolan human rights activists were sentenced to up to six years in jail in Angola's oil-producing Cabinda province, a lawyer said on Tuesday.

20100803
reuters

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola's government sharply cut its estimate for 2010 economic growth to 6.7 percent from a previous forecast of 9.7 percent, in a revised budget submitted to parliament on Tuesday.