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International Herald Tribune reports that despite being oil-rich, Angola's potential wealth is not getting through to its population, most of whom live on less than US$2 a day. Angola is caught up in an energy geo-political rivalry among Western, Russian and Chinese oil companies, with its oil exports increasing ten-fold since the mid 1970's. Despite this, Angola's development rate remains as one of the slowest in the world and suffers from terrible corruption. Post civil war elections have been repeatedly postponed and are now scheduled for 2009.
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Angola is dry from May/June, gets warm in October, then pretty soggy from November to April/May. Obviously hotel rates are cheaper and popular tourist haunts much quieter during the rainy seasons. The local people are ... happier because good rains mean good crops, so traditional festivals are often held at this time.
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In Angola, tens of thousands of Chinese workers have come to rebuild a country devastated by a long civil war. Fernando Macedo of the Association for Justice Peace and Democracy, a Luanda based human rights group, accepts that because of the war a whole generation of Angolans ar…
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While Western intervention into Angola's civil war in the 1970s and 1980s may have been motivated by ideology and anti-communism, its involvement in the 1990s was far more prosaic. Motivated by greed, Western companies, particularly in the oil and diamond industries, have willingly participated in the plunder of Angola's natural resources.
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[T]he sun is rising over a new Angola. In April 2002, the civil war came to an end. For over five years the people of Angola have experienced a peace that was unknown in the past. The country is blessed with abundant natural resources, including diamonds and oil. In the past, these resources fueled the war effort; in the future, they may contribute to a prosperous nation. Most importantly, the next 20 years will be Angola's most receptive time to respond to the good news of Christ.
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In NOVEMBER 1975 after nearly five centuries as a Portuguese colony Angola became an independent state. By late 1988 ... despite fertile land large deposits of oil and gas and great mineral wealth Angola had achieved neither prosperity nor peace-- the national economy was stagnating and warfare was ravaging the countryside. True independence also remained unrealized as foreign powers continued to determine Angola's future.
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