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• Angola: The high cost of living in Luanda

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 716
  The capital of Angola, Luanda, is a very expensive city. Both for Angolans as well as for foreigners. If you are here, you are well aware. Basic services, like food, education and housing are priced on par with some European countries. The main difference is that the salaries in Angola are simply laughable when ...
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• Angola: Constitution Supports Womens Rights

  
  Women of History — Authority: 142
  From Angola Press : Women rights, as the key element of family and society are stipulated in three draft laws presented last week by the Constitutional Commission countrywide, said the MP Luzia Inglês. Speaking to Angop, the member of National Assembly (Parliament) expressed satisfaction over the fact women ...
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• Tshwane Peace Group

  
  Khanya — Authority: 414
  On Friday evening Val and I went along to a meeting we had been invited to. We had little idea what to expect, except that the speakers would be conscientious objectors from Israel, and someone who had been involved in the civil wars in the DRC. It was a very informal gathering, and the Congolese speaker did not turn ...
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• Big Road Blues Show 11/8/09: Angola Bound – The Blues Of Harry Oster

  
  Big Road Blues — Authority: 106
  ARTIST SONG ALBUM James Russell I Had Five Long Years Prison Worksongs Robert Pete Williams Some Got Six Months Angola Prisoners Blues Hogman Maxey Stagolee Angola Prisoners Blues Otis Webster Boll Weevil Blues Country Negro Jam Session Smokey Babe & Sally Dotson ...
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• Opec not looking at raising output

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  DUBAI UAE Oil Minister Mohammed Al Hamli said on Saturday raising oil production was not currently on the agenda for Opec. “Right now increasing production is not on the agenda,” Hamli told reporters in Dubai. Opec meets on Dec. 22 in Angola to
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• Raising output not on OPEC agenda now

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  Right now increasing production is not on the agenda, Hamli told reporters in Dubai. OPEC meets on Dec. 22 in Angola to decide on production policy. Both Venezuela and Iran have said the producer group did not need to increase output then. OPEC has kept
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• ExxonMobil Celebrates 15 Years of Operations in Angola

  
  Oil and Gas News — Authority: 135
  Total Production Exceeds One Billion BarrelsIRVING, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) affiliate Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited (Esso Angola) is celebrating 15 years of safe and successful operations in Angola. Esso Angola and its venture partners in Block 15 have worked with the ...
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• New USAID Mission Director for Angola Sworn In

  
  Database of Press Releases related to Africa — Authority: 495
  New USAID Mission Director for Angola Sworn In  WASHINGTON, November 6, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today the swearing in of Randall Peterson as its new Mission Director for Angola. The Counselor to the Agency, Ambassador James Michel, ...
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• Vote Result on Legalizing Casinos in Ohio: 53% vote ‘yes’

  
  Blogoncherry — Authority: 518
  With 99% of precincts reporting unofficial results, a referendum to legalize casinos in Ohio passed with 53% of the vote Tuesday.More than two-thirds of absentee voters said yes to Issue 3, the Ohio constitutional amendment that would allow one casino each in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and Toledo. The county’s ...
  5 days ago

• Chevron begins production at Angolan fields.

  
  World News Journal — Authority: 135
  Energy Daily 9 September 2009 Chevron has confirmed that its subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (CABGOC) and its partners commenced crude oil production at the Tombua-Landana project located 50 miles (80 km) offshore Angola. Located in approx. 1,200 feet (366 metres) of water in Block 14, the $ 3.8 bn development ...
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• Sonangol to buy Marathons stake in Angolan block 32.

  
  World News Journal — Authority: 135
  Energy-pedia 24 September 2009 The Angola state-owned firm Sonangol will buy Marathon Oils 20 % stake in Angolas Block 32, valued at $ 1.3 bn, after blocking the sale of the stake to two Chinese companies, a Sonangol spokesman said. "We will buy the stake," he said. A Marathon Oil spokesman had said in early ...
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• Angola is US priority as rising oil output boosts influence.

  
  World News Journal — Authority: 135
  Bloomberg News 15 September 2009 Donald Steinberg arrived in Angola in 1995 as US ambassador to find American oilmen doing more than drilling for coastal crude. "They were, in fact, the American ambassadors to Angola in that period," Steinberg recalls. "The only real relationship was through the oil companies." ...
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• China Fund Tied To Angola and Guinea Owns Wall Street Real Estate

  
  WSJ.com: China Journal — Authority: 141
  China International Fund, the little-known Hong Kong-registered company whose $7 billion minerals-and-infrastructure deal with Guinea last month grabbed headlines, has drawn scrutiny for its connections with a Chinese government-owned entity. But the Hong Kong company’s parent also has noteworthy ties elsewhere.
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• Eni makes a new significant oil discovery offshore Angola

  
  Oil and Gas News — Authority: 135
  It produced oil at rates in excess of 6,500 barrels of oil per day during production tests (rates were constrained by surface equipment).Eni and Sonangol announce an important oil discovery at the Cabaça Norte-1 well, 350 km North of Luanda, offshore Angola.The well, located in Block 15/06 in 500 metres of water, was ...
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• Pierre Falcones Private Indirect Government in Angola

  
  Shimron Letters — Authority: 414
  The convictions of Pierre Falcone, Arcadi Gaydamak, ex-presidents son Jean-Christophe Mitterrand and Charles Pasqua in a French court for arms trafficking to Angola have exposed the impunity with which arms traffickers supplied weapons to Angola during its 27-year civil war.In an effort to stem the conflict, the ...
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• How France fuelled Angolas civil war

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  The conviction of Pierre Falcone for arms trafficking is an embarrassing blow to Angolas president The convictions of Pierre Falcone, Arcadi Gaydamak, ex-presidents son Jean-Christophe Mitterrand and Charles Pasqua in a French court for arms trafficking to Angola have exposed the impunity with which arms ...
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• What the US did (or didn’t do) to alleviate the Congo conflict misery

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  The war in Congo has been going on for a decade and a half. The conflict has many causes, among them the collapse of the kleptocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. A case of an abandoned former Cold War ally of the United States, his fall led to a government that was not able to control vast areas of the country. This ...
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• Angola: Women & Literacy

  
  Women of History — Authority: 142
  From AllAfrica : Angolan minister of Family and Women Promotion Genoveva Lino Monday in coastal Kwanza Sul province, called on women to attend literacy classes, in order to learn about the reality of the country and world. "You must participate in literacy classes and then continue studying because reading ...
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• Mossel Bay company takes honours at World Design Award

  
  Travelwires.com — Authority: 438
  MM Interiors – which belongs to Mossel Bay’s Miranda Meyer and has offices in Mossel Bay, Cape Town, and Lagos – has won international acclaim for its work on the headquarters of one of... Send your news worthy industry press releases for publication today to muzi at travelwires dot com.
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• The French Connection’s China Connection

  
  WSJ.com: China Journal — Authority: 141
  Pierre Falcone had recently joined the long parade of those seeking to ride China’s overseas investment wave in Africa and elsewhere.
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