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[N]g-g´l)(KEY), officially Republic of Angola (2005 est. pop. 11,191,000), including the exclave of Cabinda, 481,351 sq mi (1,246,700 sq km), SW Africa. Angola is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Congo (Kinshasa) on the north and northeast, by Zambia on the east, and by Namibia on the south. Luanda is the capital, largest city, and chief port.
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Angola lies on the Atlantic coast of southwestern Africa; its small (but oil-rich) northern province, Cabinda, is separated from the rest of the country by a small part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Congo River. Angola's narrow coastal plain, where most of the people live, rises to a high interior plateau with rain forests in the north and dry savanna in the south.
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The Belgian government in March called for coordinated European Union action to stop diamond sales being used to fund arms purchases in Angola. Belgian Foreign Minister Erik Derycke said that most of the diamonds arrived in Brussels from South Africa via London.222 In the ACP-EU Joint Assembly meeting in Strasbourg on April 1, 1999 a resolution on Angola included "Calls for a thorough and urgent investigation by the Commission into the conduct of the diamond trade with a view to eliminating smuggling by Mr. Savimbi to fund his war effort."223 The De Beers company, which through its Central Selling Organization (CSO) controls around 80 percent of world sales of diamonds,224 has yet to say how itintends to deal with the embargo, but declared in a press statement on December 15, 1998 that "De Beers' buyers do not buy rough diamonds without an Angolan Government certificate of origin and whose provenance is uncertain. De Beers' buyers have refused (and will continue to do so) diamonds without certificates."225 In January 1999 De Beers wrote to the U.N. offering its expertise in helping to implement the embargo.226 Asked why it took so long to write to the U.N., De Beers has said that it wrote to the Angolan government first, seeking clarification on what it should do.227 In May, two senior De Beers officials met with Ambassador Fowler of the U.N. Sanctions Committee twice, in Angola and then in South Africa. De Beers... has not been forthcoming with information to the nongovernmental organisation Global Witness (which published a widely publicized report on the diamond trade and Angola in 1998) and has been seeking information on how De beers plans to assist implementation of the embargo.228
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Angola is roughly square in shape, with a maximum width of about 800 miles (1,300 km), including the Cabinda exclave, which is located along the Atlantic coast just north of Angola's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Angola is bordered to the far northwest by the Republic of the Congo, to the north and northeast by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the southeast by Zambia, to the south by Namibia, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
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Angola is located in southwestern Africa. Angola is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north and east, Zambia to the east, and Botswana and Namibia to the south.
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Angola is situated on the west coast of Africa, and is bordered on the north by Congo and north and northeast by Dem. Rep. of Congo (formerly Zaire), on the Southeast by Zambia and on the south by Namibia and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
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