Angola Rising
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I am a Canadian who has worked over 10 years with a NGO mission avition organization in Africa; Angola and South Africa. I will be returning to Angola in early 2010 to manage a mission hospital in southern Angola. I am greatly interested in connecting with other expats to learn about their vocation and to network with them.
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For the Love of Hockey - Angolan Style
Posted on 13/02/2013
Luanda — Hockey is popular in Angola, but not the 'ice' kind because of the climate. The game of roller hockey is similar to ice hockey but played on an indoor, hard...
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Angolan Training Boosts Human Capital
Posted on 01/02/2013
(Luanda) With seven children from his wife and another six fathered in distant provinces where he fought in the war, 54-year-old José Simão describes his life in the past as...
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Invented in Angola!
Posted on 31/01/2013
Nuremberg (From special envoy) - Angolan inventors, who represented the country at the recent International Fair of Ideas, Invention and New Products (IENA), received seven medals, one...
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Golfing Angola: New Championship Course Opens
Posted on 26/01/2013
Until now, the golfing venues in Angola had been limited to a purely sand course in Benfica, situated just south of Luanda.Recently, a new championship quality golf course has opened in...
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Update on a Princess Diana's Angola Landmine Victim
Posted on 09/01/2013
(Mail Online, Luanda) Pictured 16 years on: The brave girl who won Diana's heart after losing leg in an Angolan landmine blast.She was 13 and about to receive a prosthetic leg when...
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Remembering January 4 in Angola
Posted on 04/01/2013
Luanda — The Angolan people are celebrating on Friday, January 04, the Colonial Repression Martyrs' Day, with political, cultural and sports activities.The date is of extreme...
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Historic City Series: Lobito
Posted on 02/01/2013
The city of Lobito is long considered “the guest room of Angola”. Located on the south-central Angolan coast, in the province of Benguela, it is the city that most resembles...
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Angola on Track to Leave List of Least Developed Countries
Posted on 29/12/2012
The Committee for Development Policy of the Social Council of the United Nations (UNCTAD) announced in September that Angola became a candidate for the graduation process of the Group of...
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Angola: Leading in African Telecommunications
Posted on 21/12/2012
Angola’s largest wireless operator by subscribers, Unitel, recently in the last few months launched its 4G LTE services. Angola's second largest provider, Movicel, launched...
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Angolan Food: Mukua
Posted on 07/12/2012
Mukua is the traditional Angolan dried fruit from the emblematic baobab tree. The fruit has a hard shell like a coconut and is a whole food, which is naturally dried on the baobab tree,...
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I will be working in Luanda for as long as I can and looking foward to meet other expats.
So see u around, when you get here.
Cheers