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Sandra Cordeiro - Luandense

Luanda – The Angolans are celebrating this Sunday the 37th anniversary of their independence, proclaimed on 14 November in 1975.

It was at 12 oclock a.m of Novermber 11 that the then President of the People Movement of Angola Liberation (MPLA) and head of state, António Agostinho Neto proclaimed the country’s independence.

“On behalf of the Angolan people, the MPLA central committee, proclaims solemnly before Africa and the world the independence of Angola”, announced the first President of Angola.

FILING expenses is one of Baobab’s least favourite things to do, never more so than after a trip to Angola. It is painful to explain to The Economist bosses that Luanda, the capital, really is that expensive. A by no means luxurious hotel room costs $400, a non-alcoholic drink in the lobby $10 ($2 in a supermarket). The underwhelming hotel buffet will set you back $75 and a pizza on a street corner $25.

A regular taxi ride easily adds up to $50, especially since the taxi company (the only one in town) starts the meter as soon as the car leaves the depot. There are no cruising cabs. For a driver with a decent car I paid $350 per day (for two days only, then I walked everywhere in 35°C heat and 100% humidity). An apartment costs $10,000-$15,000 to rent per month or at least a million dollars to buy. Labourers get paid $50 per month. That tells you a lot about the gap between rich and poor. Angola has one of the worst Gini coefficients in the world.

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ABADÁ CAPOEIRA - aos Domingos na nova Marginal de Luanda. — at Av. 4 De Fevereiro - Marginal.

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Luanda, hoje! Angola, Outubro de 2012!

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A.1.R - African Industrial Revolution, LUANDA

25 Outubro (18h30) UNAP, Luanda, Estudio Candonga apresenta: African Industrial Revolution

Candonga Studio is the name of art collective based in Luanda created by artists Francisco Vidaland RitaGT . The work they produce is a reflection on notions of identity, borders, colonialism and decolonization, cultural differences, gender, questioning the Eurocentric point of view and Western art history and humanity.

Estudio Candonga é o nome do colectivo de arte com base em Luanda criado pelos artistasFrancisco Vidal e RitaGT. O trabalho que produzem é uma reflexão sobre noções de identidade, fronteira, colonialismo e descolonização, diferenças entre culturas, género; o questionamento do ponto de vista eurocêntrico e ocidental da história da arte e da humanidade.

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Bom dia Platinados, hoje é dia Histórico para Angola José Eduardo dos Santos toma hoje posse como primeiro Presidente Eleito. O Presidente da República eleito, José Eduardo dos Santos, toma posse hoje, quarta-feira, numa cerimónia a ter lugar na Praça da República, contígua ao Memorial Dr. António Agostinho Neto, sita no Bairro da Kinanga.No mesmo acto tomará igualmente posse o vice-presidente eleito, Manuel Vicente.Os resultados finais das eleições gerais de 31 de Agosto publicados pela Comissão Nacional Eleitoral (CNE) confirmam a vitória do MPLA e do seu cabeça de lista, José Eduardo dos Santos, com 4.135.503 votos, correspondentes a 71,84 porcento.

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Geneva - The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) today in Geneva announced that Angola became a candidate for the graduation process of the Group of Least Developed Countries to be approved in 2015 and integrating Middle Income countries.

Angola was recommended by UNCTAD to work to get out of the list of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), taking into account advances it registers in macro-economic and social achievements.

According to the norms, for this to happen, the LDCs must meet two of three criteria for eligibility in the upper limits established for inclusion, or even having a high level of Gross National Product (GNP) per capita twice that the value stipulated for inclusion, it is sufficient for exclusion from the list, even though the country has not reached the required values in any of the other two criteria.

These data were advanced in Geneva, Switzerland, during the special session of the 59th Council of UNCTAD, on graduation of least developed countries.

Last March, at a meeting of the Committee for Development Policy, was first considered that Angola fulfills the eligibility criteria to be excluded from the list of Least Developed Countries, fulfilling the first step in a long process that starts in 2015 and may be extended for a further three years of transition to their integration into the group of Middle Income Countries.

The step taken today consists of Angola as a candidate country to the graduation process of the Group of Least Developed Countries, the list of countries to be approved in 2015.

Luanda — The Republic of Angola recently received USD $100,000 from the country of Brazil to the UN Infant and Children Education Fund (UNICEF) to assist children and women in situations of food shortages. Brazil is joining the UNICEF in providing for initiatives of reinforcement of food and nutritional security in Angola, particularly in drought hit regions covering ten of the country’s 18 provinces.

With the Brazil’s funds, UNICEF will reinforce the Angolan Government initiatives to overcome the challenges of nature, thus ensuring food security, through prevention and treatment of malnutrition, supply of drinking water for affected children and their families in the provinces of Zaire, Bié, Kwanza Sul and Huíla.

Currently, some 10% of Angola’s population are subject to food insecurity, as outlined in the OCHA (Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair of the United Nations) diagram below. According to the latest WHO data published in April 2011, malnutrition deaths in Angola reached 9,095 or 4.35% of total deaths; one of the highest death rates for this cause worldwide.