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Angola continued to receive weapons from Russia after the signing of the Lusaka Protocol. For example, in March 1995, T-55 tanks and M-46 130mm artillery pieces passed through Luanda's Quatro de Fevereiro airport from Russia.These shipments appeared to represent purchases made since the Lusaka Protocol rather than deliveries on earlier deals.11
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Emergency support from HHS/CDC was provided to address the 2005 Marburg virus outbreak in northern Angola, with assistance from the USAID Mission. CDC personnel joined with the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the international response to assist with epidemiologic investigation, infection control, and laboratory diagnosis. CDC personnel in Atlanta provided laboratory and scientific support to Angola's Ministry of Health and to countries bordering Angola, establishing a field laboratory in Luanda, Angola to provide prompt laboratory confirmation of suspect Marburg cases in Angola and neighboring countries. Additional HIV/AIDS funding for the country of just over $2 million from HHS/CDC is ... available, and helped expand surveillance, information systems, laboratory, and blood bank quality control.
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Rio Longa Lodge is situated on an island near the mouth of the Longa River on the West Coast of Angola. Only two and half-hours by road, South of the capital city Luanda, the Rio Longa forms the southern most border of the Kisama National Park. This park achieved international recognition following a well-publicized elephant relocation project during the year 2000.
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It supplied twenty-one BMP-1 armored personnel carriers in 1993, a further seven BMP-1s to Angola in 1998. The Belarussian company that reportedly sold the vehicles, Beltekheksport, chartered a Ukrainian Air ForceAntonov transport plane to fly the cargo from the Machulische airfield.39 Using the same route in February 1999, Belarus delivered three Grad BM-21 multiple-rocket launcher systems, 1,000 122mm artillery shells for D-30 guns, 2,000 AKM assault rifles, and 10,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition to Angola. These goods were delivered at Catumbela airport on February 16.40 This contract cost Angola $1.4 million.41 The Portuguese press ... reported in April that the Angola government had purchased T-72 tanks and long range artillery from Belarus which had been delivered to Luanda in the last few days.42
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