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1590 Jul 6,
English admiral Francis Drake took the Portuguese Forts at Taag, Angola.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1959 May 25, Khrushchev visited
Angola.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1961 In the Portuguese colony of
Angola fighting erupted as 3 anti-colonial guerrilla movements battled
for independence. Rebels butchered Portuguese settlers, including women
and children, on remote Angolan plantations. In revenge, Portuguese
militias and troops carried out a vicious campaign of repression,
despite pressure from the US and UN to pull out of Africa.
(SFC, 4/5/02, p.A11)(AP, 12/9/07)
1970 In Portuguese Angola the
father of Michael Durney bought the Mampeza Industrial SARL, a cannery
in Benguela. By 1997 under Michael it was processing 5 tons of tuna a
day and one tone of sardines and mackerel.
(WSJ, 11/10/97, p.A17)
1972 Barcelo de Carvalho, aka
"Bongo," recorded the album "Angola 72" in the Netherlands. The music’s
predominant rhythm is semba, described as the origin of Brazil’s Samba.
The album was smuggled into Angola and became very popular but was
banned by the government. It was re-released in the US in 1997. One of
its songs was featured in the 1997 French film "When the Cat’s Away."
(SFC,10/24/97, p.E1)
1975 Jun, From June to July the US
launched covert operations in Angola to prevent a Communist takeover.
In 2002 Dr. Piero Gleijeses authored “Conflicting Missions, Havana,
Washington and Africa: 1959-1976.”
(SSFC, 3/29/02, p.A12)
1975 Oct 14, South Africans
secretly launched Operation Savannah when the first of several South
African columns (task force Zulu) crossed into Angola from Namibia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola_(1975-1991))
1975 Oct 23, A Battle between
Cuban and South Africa troops took place in Angola.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola_(1975-1991))
1975 Nov 10, In Angola the MPLA
and Cuban troops warded off the last big attack of the FNLA.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola_(1975-1991))
1975 Nov 11, Angola proclaimed
independence from Portugal. Civil war began following the 14-year fight
for independence. The Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)
proclaimed unilateral independence. Jonas Savimbi led UNITA and the
FLNA was backed by Zaire.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A10)(SFC, 12/26/98, p.A12)(SFC,
4/19/00, p.A10)
1975-1988 Some 350,000 Angolans died in the Civil
War. Cuba sent in 50,000 soldiers to back the MPLA and the USSR
contributed billions of dollars. South African troops and US guns and
money supported UNITA.
(SFC, 4/5/02, p.A11)
1977 Rebel forces from Angola
swept into Zaire and captured much of the copper-rich Shaba province.
Zaire regained control after 3 months with American and other foreign
support.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A11)(SFC, 5/17/97, p.A14)
1978 May 4, The South African Air
Force (SAAF) engaged in air to ground combat at the Battle of Cassinga
in Angola.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Border_War)
1979 Sep 10, Pres. Agostinho Neto
(b.1922), Angola’s 1st president, died and Jose Eduardo dos Santos was
elected president. Neto was originally embalmed but later cremated.
(SFC, 8/24/01,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostinho_Neto)(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A5)
1980 Apr 1, The southern African
Development Coordination Conference was established by 9 countries with
the Lusaka declaration (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe). On August 17, 1992, it was
transformed into the Southern African Development Community. By 2008 it
included 15 members.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_African_Development_Community)
1982 In Angola a 520-megawatt
hydroelectric plant was inaugurated in Capanda. It was expected to go
online in 2009.
(Econ, 1/5/08, Angola p.4)
1988 Mar 22, In Angola the battle
of Cuito Cuanavale changed the region's political landscape,
accelerating the independence of Namibia and the fall of apartheid in
South Africa. While the Cuban and Angolan forces claimed victory, South
Africa claimed it lost only 31 soldiers against 4,785 who fell on the
other side.
(AP, 3/22/08)
1988 Jul, The apartheid regime in
South Africa, having entered into discussions with the ANC, agreed to
elections in Namibia in exchange for the withdrawal of Cuban troops
from Angola.
(AP, 3/22/08)
1988 Cuba and South Africa
negotiated a mutual withdrawal. The MPLA and UNITA continued fighting.
(SFC, 4/5/02, p.A11)
1989 Jan 10, Cuba began
withdrawing its troops from Angola, more than 13 years after its first
contingents arrived.
(AP, Internet, 1/10/99)
1989 Jun 22, The government of
Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a
formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war.
(AP, 6/22/99)
1991 May 1, The government of
Angola and US-backed guerrillas initialed agreements ending their civil
war.
(AP, 5/1/01)
1991 May 23, Last Cubans troops
left Angola.
(www.iie.com/research/topics/sanctions/cuba.cfm)
1991 May 31, Pres. Jose Eduardo
dos Santos signed a peace treaty with Jonas Savimbi of UNITA, ending a
16-year-old Angola civil war. It called for a unified military and
democratic elections.
(AP, 5/31/01)(SFC, 4/5/02, p.A11)
1991 In Angola the Bicesse Accord
failed to resolve squabbles and ended with a resumption of war.
(WSJ, 5/31/00, p.A26)
1991 Fighting between US supported
UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), and the
Marxist MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola), ended.
(SFC, 4/12/97, p.A12)
1991 In Angola Elisol was
established as a refuse collection company. In the 1990s it took on the
maintenance of sanitation networks.
(Econ, 1/5/08, Angola p.4)
1991-1999 UNITA rebels in Angola raised an estimated
$3-4 billion through diamond sales.
(SFC, 7/30/99, p.A13)
1992 Angola’s Pres. Jose Eduardo
dos Santos and the MPLA beat Jonas Savimbi and UNITA in elections.
(Econ, 9/4/04, p.48)
1992 In Angola fighting between
UNITA and the MPLA resumed when UNITA rejected its political defeat in
the country’s first democratic elections. Jonas Savimbi of the
Ovimbundu tribe, leader of UNITA, refused to accept defeat.
(SFC, 4/12/97, p.A12)(SFC, 12/26/98, p.A12)(SFC,
7/14/99, p.A6)
1992 The Angola food company,
Angoalissar, was founded by local and int’l. investors.
(Econ, 1/5/08, Angola p.5)
1993 UN peace talks began in
Zambia as fighting continued.
(SFC, 4/5/02, p.A11)
1993 Arms and an oil embargo was
imposed on the UNITA rebels by the UN but it had little effect.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A13)
1994 Sep 22, In Tolunda, Angola,
faulty brakes caused a train to plunge into a ravine and some 300
people were killed.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)(AP, 2/18/04)
1994 Oct 17, Negotiators for the
Angolan government and rebels agreed to a peace treaty to end their
19-year civil war.
(AP, 10/17/99)
1994 Nov 20, The Angolan
government under dos Santos and rebels under Savimbi signed a treaty in
Zambia to end 19 years of war, even as fighting continued in their
homeland.
(AP, 11/20/99)(SFC, 4/5/02, p.A11)
1994 The Lusaka Protocol called
for a halt to the civil war between Unita and the government that had
run for 2 decades. The accord called for UNITA to disband its 70,000
man army and hand control of almost half the country to the government.
Svimbi was given key posts in the military and Cabinet.
(WSJ, 10/1/97, p.A16)(SFC, 12/26/98, p.A12)(SFC,
7/14/99, p.A6)
1995 Feb 8, The U.N. Security
Council approved sending 7,000 peacekeepers to Angola to cement an
accord ending 19 years of civil war.
(AP, 2/8/00)
1995 Mar 2, Ferry boat sank off
Sumbe, Angola, and over 42 people were killed.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1995 Jun 18, A private plane
carrying the Angolan soccer team crashed in Luanda, Angola, killing 48
people.
(AP, 6/18/00)
1997 Feb, The government under
Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan hired Sandline Int’l., a company that
provides military training and support, to help put an end to the
bloody secessionist movement on Bougainville Island. Sandline in turn
subcontracted much of the work to the South African mercenary firm
Executive Outcomes, known for its effective work in Angola and Sierra
Leone.
(WSJ, 3/4/97, p.A15)(SFC, 3/21/97, p.A20)
1997 Mar 6, In Angola an armed
group killed 30 people at a Roman Catholic mission in southern Angola
and held 6 missionaries hostage.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A13)
1997 Apr 11, In Angola a national
reconciliation governing body was formed that united the MPLA under
president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and UNITA under Jonas Savimbi.
(SFC, 4/12/97, p.A12)
1997 Apr 25, Angola was supporting
Kabila’s rebels. The government of Zaire claimed that Angolan troops
had invaded near Cabinda.
(SFC, 4/26/97, p.A10)
1997 May 8, In Zaire rebels were
meeting increased resistance from French mercenaries and Angolan UNITA
forces. A shortage of cash was also hindering their advance on Kinshasa.
(WSJ, 5/9/97, p.A1)
1997 May 29, In Angola troops
overran the northern part of the country held by the former Unita
movement.
(WSJ, 5/30/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 28, The UN imposed air
and travel sanctions on the UNITA movement in Angola to deter Jonas
Savimbi reform increasing tensions.
(SFC, 8/29/97, p.A16)
1997 Oct 1, It was reported that
Unita was demobilizing its soldiers and getting the UN to return them
to Unita-held territory, where they could again be mobilized.
(WSJ, 10/1/97, p.A16)
1997 Oct 12, Angolan troops backed
the rebels in an offensive around southern cities. Rebels surrounded
Brazzaville and Gen’l. Jean-Marie Tiaffou urged government troops to
surrender. There were reports that Angola’s UNITA rebels were backing
Pres. Lissouba.
(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 29, The UN put new
sanctions on the UNITA rebels under Jonas Savimbi for not adhering to
the 1994 Lusaka Protocol.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A13)
1997-2002 In 2004 a Human Rights Watch report said
more than $4 billion in oil revenue disappeared from Angolan state
coffers over this period, even as the country was struggling to recover
from 27 years of civil war.
(AP, 1/13/04)
1998 Jan 27, The UN Security
Council approved a 3-month extension for peacekeeping operations.
(WSJ, 1/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 1, The UN imposed
sanctions on Unita-held areas due to the former rebels refusal to abide
by a 1994 peace accord.
(WSJ, 7/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 7, In Angola 16 policemen
were killed in an ambush by Unita.
(WSJ, 7/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, In Angola fighting
broke out between government troops and UNITA.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 24, In Congo some 2,000
Angolan troops captured a coastal naval base and oil port and moved up
the Congo River to battle the rebels.
(SFC, 8/25/98, p.A7)
1998 Aug 27, In Congo Unita forces
from Angola joined the rebels, while forces from Namibia fought for
Kabila’s regime.
(WSJ, 8/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 31, The ruling party
expelled Unita deputies from parliament.
(WSJ, 9/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 8, In Angola some 50
gunmen dressed in uniforms of the police, government and rebels,
attacked the Diamond Works mine at Yetwene. At least 6 workers were
killed and dozens were injured.
(WSJ, 11/11/98, p.A16)
1998 Nov 17, Renewed fighting
created some 331,000 refugees since April.
(WSJ, 11/18/98, p.A1)
1998 Dec 9, In Angola Unita rebels
advanced on Cuito after saying they had routed an attack by government
forces on their southern stronghold.
(WSJ, 12/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Dec 14, The British human
rights group, Global Witness, reported that in Angola UNITA was selling
diamonds to finance its battles against government forces.
(SFC, 12/15/98, p.C7)
1998 Dec 14, In Angola UNITA
rebels launched an offensive at Cuito and Huambo and claimed to have
shot down a government jet.
(WSJ, 12/15/98, p.A1)
1998 Dec 16, UNITA rebels advanced
on Cuinji and dozens of civilians were killed at the train station when
rebels attacked with automatic weapons and grenades.
(SFC, 12/17/98, p.C10)
1998 Dec 22, In Angola rebels
shelled Kuito. Some 60,000 refugees had fled there to escape fighting
elsewhere.
(WSJ, 12/23/98, p.A1)
1998 Dec 23, In Angola government
forces retook the towns of Vila Nova and Caala.
(SFC, 12/24/98, p.A12)
1998 Dec 24, In Angola a rebel
attack on Kuito killed 30 people and wounded 37. 9 of the dead, killed
by mortar fire, had sought refuge in a Catholic church.
(SFC, 12/26/98, p.A12)
1998 Dec 26, In Angola a transport
plane with 14 people aboard crashed near Vila Nova, an area of
continued fighting. 8 of the passengers were members of a UN Observer
Mission. UNITA rebels reportedly held some of the survivors. A rescue
team reached the site Jan 8 and there were no survivors.
(SFEC, 12/27/98, p.A22)(SFC, 12/29/98, p.A8)(SFC,
1/2/99, p.A9)(SFC, 1/9/99, p.A10)
1998 Dec 30, In Angola rebels
bombarded Huambo and killed 5 people.
(SFC, 12/31/98, p.D2)
1998 Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe,
chairman of the African body “Organ on Politics, Defense and Security,”
joined with Namibia and Angola in a war of plunder in Congo.
(Econ, 3/13/04, p.48)
1999 Jan 2, In Angola rebel forces
shot down a UN plane with 8 people shortly after takeoff from Huambo.
The plane was later found with bullets in the tail section and the
flight recorders removed.
(SFEC, 1/3/99, p.A23)(SFC, 1/27/99, p.C10)
1999 Jan 4, UNITA rebels denied
shooting down 2 UN planes and claimed that there were no survivors.
(WSJ, 1/5/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 5, Unita rebels shelled
Malanje for a 2nd day. 25 people were killed and 100 wounded.
(WSJ, 1/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 18, UN leader Kofi Annan
recommended that UN military observers leave Angola due to their
targeting by the warring sides.
(SFC, 1/19/99, p.A6)
1999 Jan 21, The UN voted to
maintain at least a token presence in Angola.
(SFC, 1/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Jan 27, Angola admitted that
UNITA rebels had taken the northern city of Mbanza Congo.
(WSJ, 1/28/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 2, In Angola a chartered
Antonov crashed in a Luanda residential area and 28 people were killed.
(WSJ, 2/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 26, The UN Security
Council voted to close its peacekeeping mission in Angola due to the
renewed civil war.
(SFC, 2/27/99, p.A16)
1999 Apr 25, UNITA rebels claimed
to control 70% of the country.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.D8)
1999 Apr 26, Angola blamed Unita
for an attack on a truck convoy that killed at least 25 people. Aid
workers questioned whether the rebels were responsible.
(WSJ, 4/27/99, p.A1)
1999 May 5, The WHO planned a mass
vaccination program in Angola following a polio outbreak that killed
nearly 50 children and left 700 paralyzed.
(WSJ, 5/5/99, p.A1)
1999 May 31, It was reported that
an estimated 5,000 children lived homeless in the streets of Luanda.
(SFC, 5/31/99, p.A8)
1999 Jun 1, In Angola UNITA rebels
claimed that they killed 49 government soldiers in 4 clashes over the
past week.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.A13)
1999 Aug 9, Police shut down Radio
Ecclesia, a Roman Catholic radio station that was one of the few
independent sources of information in the country.
(SFC, 8/10/99, p.A10)
1999 Nov 15, In Angola the armed
forces reported that Jonas Savimbi and his UNITA forces were dislodged
from their highland strongholds.
(SFC, 11/17/99, p.A18)
1999 Dec 26, Government forces
with help from Namibian troops captured Jamba and took control of the
southern border with Namibia.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.A13)
1999 About 40% of Angola’s budget
was devoted to military expenditures. Less than 5% went towards
education.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.E6)
2000 Feb 5, In Angola a military
helicopter crashed and 30 people were killed at Lubango. 12 people
survived and 3 Catholic nuns were among the dead.
(SFC, 2/8/00, p.A14)
2000 Mar 5, In Angola about this
time some 500 armed men killed 30 diamond prospectors in Chivungo.
UNITA rebels were blamed.
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.C4)
2000 Mar 15, A UN Security Council
panel accused governments of Africa and Europe of violating sanctions
against the UNITA rebels.
(SFC, 3/16/00, p.A14)
2000 Mar, Pres. Blaise Compaore of
Burkina Faso and Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo were reported to have
helped Jonas Savimbi of UNITA obtain arms and fuel in exchange for
diamonds.
(SFC, 4/19/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 18, Rebels abducted 14
church workers and as many as 20 civilians from the Swiss mission of
Our Lady of La Salette in Dunde.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.C3)
2000 Oct 18, Gunmen attacked 2
buses at Andurie, Angola, and killed dozens of people.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A14)
2000 Oct 31, In Saurimo, Angola, a
Russian Antonov 26 charter plane burst into flames after takeoff and
all 48 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Nov 15, In Angola an Antonov
24 airplane crashed near Luanda Int’l. Airport and 39-40 people were
killed. All Antonovs were ordered grounded in Sept.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A17)(WSJ, 11/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 21, A UN report accused
Jonas Savimbi and UNITA rebels of trading diamonds for arms.
(SFC, 12/22/00, p.A20)
2000 The Angola government agreed
to open its oil accounts to the IMF and to redirect revenues from
defense to rebuilding. The population was about 13 million.
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.B4)
2001 Mar 17, In Angola a small
plane crashed into a mountain near Lubango and all but one of 17 people
on board were killed.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.S2)
2001 May 5, In Angola Unita rebels
attacked Caxito, a town near Luanda, and 79 people were killed. Some
30,000 people fled the area following the attack.
(WSJ, 5/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/8/01, p.C3)(SFC, 5/11/01,
p.D8)
2001 May 24, De Beers suspended
investment and prospecting for diamonds in Angola due to lack of
clarity over its legal rights. Rebel groups controlled many of the
diamond mines.
(SFC, 5/25/01, p.D6)
2001 Aug 11, In northwestern
Angola a train carrying hundreds of refugees and some soldiers hit a
mine and derailed. Refugees were machine-gunned and over 252 were
killed. Unita forces claimed responsibility.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 8/13/01, p.A1)(SFC,
8/14/01, p.A6)(SFC, 8/16/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 18, Some 10,000 people
marched in Luanda in a government-organized protest against the Aug 11
train ambush.
(SSFC, 8/19/01, p.A16)
2001 Aug 23, Angola’s Pres. Jose
Eduardo dos Santos (58) announced that he would not run in presidential
elections next year.
(SFC, 8/24/01, p.A16)
2001 Aug 24, Gunmen fired a
missile at a passenger bus near Malanje, Angola, and sprayed it with
gunfire. At least 50 people, including women and children were killed.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 1, Gunmen ambushed 2
passenger buses 185 miles south of Luanda, sprayed them with gunfire
and ransacked them. 38 people were killed.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 25, UNITA rebels attacked
an electricity substation and plunged Luanda into darkness. The rebels
with an estimated 10,000 members under Jonas Savimbi continued
operations from the bush with no sign of surrender.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.E6)
2002 Feb 22, In Angola government
troops reportedly killed UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi (67) in
Moxico province.
(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 24, Angola’s Pres. Jose
Eduardo dos Santos arrived in Portugal to present plans for ending the
civil war. Santos was scheduled to meet with Pres. Bush in Washington
Feb 26.
(SFC, 2/25/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 18, Angola’s army and
Unita rebels began cease-fire talks.
(WSJ, 3/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 30, The Angola government
and Unita signed a preliminary cease-fire agreement. The deal carved up
the nation’s diamond mines among officials in Luanda and the rebels.
(SSFC, 3/31/02, p.A12)(WSJ, 4/1/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 2, The Angola parliament
passed an amnesty bill that called for demobilizing rebels and
integrating them into the army.
(WSJ, 4/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 4, The Angola government
and Unita signed a cease-fire agreement.
(SFC, 4/5/02, p.A11)
2002 Apr 26, It was reported that
the cease-fire in Angola had opened inaccessible areas and revealed
thousands of starving people leaving the war zones.
(SFC, 4/27/02, p.A11)
2002 Aug 2, The Angolan government
and UNITA rebels declared the official end to their nearly three-decade
old civil war.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Aug 13, Angola reported the
capture of Augustin Bizimungu, a key figure in the 1994 Rwandan
genocide.
(SFC, 8/14/02, p.A13)
2002 Aug 15, The U.N. Security
Council voted unanimously to strengthen the U.N. presence in Angola to
help consolidate peace in the southwest African nation after 27 years
of civil war.
(AP, 8/15/02)
2002 Sep 12, The World Bank
pledged $120 million to help Angola rebuild after more than two decades
of civil war, but told its leaders they must take measures to dispel
suspicion of high-level corruption.
(AP, 9/12/02)
2002 Dec 9, The UN Security
Council lifted 9-year-old sanctions against Angola's UNITA movement,
welcoming efforts by the government and the former rebel group to end
the country's civil war.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2002 Angola’s TAAG Airlines lost
its monopoly of air transportation and was forced to adopt to new
market conditions.
(Econ, 1/5/08, Angola p.6)
2003 May 6, President Bush lifted
Clinton-era sanctions (1993-1998) against Angola's UNITA rebels, citing
the end of a quarter-century of civil war.
(AP, 5/7/03)
2003 May 25, A Boeing 727
chartered by an Angolan company vanished on a flight to either Burkina
Faso, South Africa, Libya or Nigeria.
(AP, 6/11/03)
2003 Jun, In Angola Isaias
Samakuva was elected head of UNITA.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3031752.stm)
2003 Dec, Angola's ruling party
chose Pres. Jose Eduardo dos Santos as its candidate for the next
general election.
(Econ, 12/13/03, p.8)
2004 Jan 13, A Human Rights Watch
report said more than $4 billion in oil revenue disappeared from
Angolan state coffers between 1997 and 2002, even as the country was
struggling to recover from 27 years of civil war.
(AP, 1/13/04)
2004 Jan 28-2004 Jan 29, It was
reported that Angolan troops and police had driven at least 10,000
Congolese from northern Angola's diamond zones in a bloody month-old
campaign.
(AP, 1/30/04)
2004 Feb 22, In Angola a tanker
truck carrying gasoline exploded near the capital of Luanda, killing 18
people and injuring 87.
(AP, 2/23/04)
2004 Mar 17, Angola decided to
reject genetically modified food aid. The decision threatened to
disrupt distributions to hundreds of thousands of people.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Inflation in Angola dropped
from 106% in 2002 to 31%.
(Econ, 9/17/05, p.45)
2005 Mar 22, Officials from the
ministry of health and the World Health Organization (WHO) said a
deadly hemorrhagic fever that has claimed the lives of 96 people,
mainly children, in Angola's northern Uige province has been identified
as the rare Marburg virus.
(www.meritcare.com/news/world/viewarticle.asp?id=18843)
2005 Apr 8, Angola’s death toll
from the Marburg virus, which has no effective treatment, rose to 181
with no signs of abating. Doctors without Borders urged the government
to close the regional hospital at Uige to help contain the spread.
Suspected cases have been identified in 7 provinces.
(SFC, 4/9/05, p.A8)(SSFC, 4/10/05, p.A5)
2005 May 19, UN health officials
said death from the Angola Marburg fever outbreak had exceeded 300.
(WSJ, 5/20/05, p.A1)
2005 Angola’s economy grew this
year by an estimated 15.5%.
(Econ, 6/24/06, p.51)
2006 Aug 1, Cabinda, a 7,000 sq-km
province of Angola located on the western coast just north of the
CongoDRC, signed the “Memorandum of Understanding for Peace in Cabinda”
with the government of Angola, granting it “a special statute” and
greater autonomy. In 2007 the province pumped over half of Angola’s 1.7
million barrels per day oil production.
(Econ, 1/5/08, Angola p.8)
2006 Oct 23, Portuguese bank BPI
said it will open 30 new branches in fast-growing Angola next year,
bringing its total number of outlets in the oil-rich southwestern
African nation to 100 by the end of 2007.
(AP, 10/23/06)
2006 Dec 15, In Kenya 11 African
heads of state attending the 2nd International Conference on the Great
Lakes Region signed a landmark $2 billion (1.5-billion-euro) security
and development pact to forestall fresh violence in the area.
(AFP, 12/15/06)
2007 Mar 31, Luanda, Angola, built
for half a million people was now home for at least 4 million, many of
whom fled there during the civil war.
(Econ, 3/31/07, p.58)
2007 Jun 28, An Angolan Airlines
plane crashed into a house on landing, killing at least six people in
M'banza Congo, a town about 180 miles north of the capital, Luanda.
(AP, 6/28/07)
2007 Jun 28, The European
Commission said all Indonesian airlines and several from Russia,
Ukraine and Angola will be banned from flying to the EU due to safety
concerns.
(AP, 6/28/07)
2007 Jul 20, Angola, Namibia and
South Africa launched a joint commission designed to lay the groundwork
for a sustainable and environmental approach of their shared fishing
grounds in the Atlantic Ocean.
(AFP, 7/20/07)
2007 Sep 21, Sources said the
presumed head of the Nigerian armed group the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), who goes under the name of Jomo
Gbomo, has been arrested in Angola.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Nov 22, The World Health
Organization said nearly 400 people, mostly children, have fallen ill
in Angola in what medical investigators suspect is an outbreak of
bromide poisoning.
(AP, 11/23/07)
2007 Dec 5, An international aid
organization said Angolan soldiers routinely and repeatedly rape
Congolese women who have crossed the border illegally in search of work
in the diamond fields.
(AP, 12/5/07)
2008 Feb 14, Angola extradited
Henry Okah, the alleged leader of Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta (MEND), to Nigeria.
(AP, 2/15/08)
2008 Mar 29, A police headquarters
building in Angola's capital collapsed and at least 24 people were
killed.
(AP, 3/31/08)
2008 Apr 18,
South Africa's main transport union thwarted the delivery of a
controversial shipment of Chinese arms destined for Zimbabwe, saying
its workers would not offload the cargo. The Chinese ship left the
South African harbor and headed for neighboring Mozambique. Angola and
Mozambique said the ship is not welcome. China defended the cargo
against international criticism.
(AFP, 4/18/08)(AP, 4/19/08)(AFP, 4/22/08)(SFC,
4/23/08, p.A2)
2008 Sep 5, Angolans voted for the
first time in 16 years in a parliamentary election expected to extend
the ruling party's hold of more than three decades in the oil-rich
African nation. A new quota required 30% of the candidates to be women.
(AP, 9/5/08)(Econ, 9/20/08, p.76)
2008 Sep 6, Angolan election
officials extended voting by a day in the capital, but said the
logistical problems that marred the first balloting in 16 years were
confined to Luanda.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 9, Angola's former rebel
movement and main opposition party UNITA faced up to a crushing
electoral defeat in a landmark peacetime poll in which it won only
10.4% of the vote. The ruling left-wing MPLA (Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola), which has been in power for over three decades,
had nearly 82 percent of the votes.
(AFP, 9/9/08)
2008 Oct 6, In France
Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of a late French president, an
Israeli-Russian billionaire and 40 other people charged with
trafficking arms to war-riven Angola or taking kickbacks faced judges
in a long-awaited trial in Paris. Prosecutors alleged that French
businessman Pierre Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak, an Israeli tycoon based
in France at the time, organized the sale of Russian arms to Angola
from 1993-2000, for a total of US$791 million, in breach of French
government rules.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Nov 7, The UN
secretary-general joined African leaders to try to end the fighting in
eastern Congo, where a fragile cease-fire is close to collapse. A UN
official and a peacekeeping officer said Angolan troops are fighting
alongside Congolese soldiers battling rebels outside the eastern
provincial capital of Goma. The UN official said an unspecified number
of Angolans arrived four days ago.
(AP, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 12, Angola announced it
is mobilizing troops to send to neighboring Congo, heightening fears
that the fighting in this central African nation will engulf other
countries in the region. North of Kibati the bodies of two dead
government soldiers lay in the center of the road beside a rebel
checkpoint.
(AP, 11/12/08)
2008 Dec 17, In Beijing the
presidents of China and Angola signed a series of agreements as the oil
rich African nation sought greater Chinese participation in its energy
and infrastructure development.
(AP, 12/17/08)
2008 Luanda, Angola, became one of
the most expensive cities in the world as office space costs reached
$8,000 a square meter and rents for a 2-room apartment downtown reached
$15,000 a month. Large oil reserves and diamond mines sparked
development in the port with limited seafront land.
(SSFC, 9/14/08, p.A19)
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