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    The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...
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    The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security...
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    The economy of Angola remains heavily influenced by the effects of four decades of conflict in the last part of the 20th century, the war for independence...
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    The 1994 Tolunda rail disaster happened near Tolunda, in the Namibe Province, Angola on 22 September 1994. A freight train of the Benguela railway derailed...
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    Independence of Angola (Portuguese: União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded...
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    Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against the pro-western National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA)...
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    Angola was first settled by San hunter-gatherer societies before the northern domains came under the rule of Bantu states such as Kongo and Ndongo. In...
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    Jonas Savimbi (category 20th century in Angola)
    was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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    Angola are based on Angola's strong support of U.S. foreign policy as the Angolan economy is dependent on U.S. foreign aid. From 1975 to 1989, Angola...
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    diplomatic missions in Angola. There are currently 63 embassies in Luanda, and many countries maintain consulates in other Angolan cities (not including...
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    during the Angolan Civil War and thanked Castro personally. Castro later attended Mandela's inauguration as President of South Africa in 1994. In 2001,...
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    Huambo (redirect from New Lisbon, Angola)
    formerly Nova Lisboa (English: New Lisbon), is the third-most populous city in Angola, after the capital city Luanda and Lubango, with a population of 595,304...
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    Braian Alexander Angola-Rodas (born April 6, 1994) is a Colombian professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier...
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  • Hélder Costa (category Angola men's international footballers)
    Hélder Wander Sousa de Azevedo Costa (born 12 January 1994) is an Angolan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or right winger...
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    However, in practice, enslaved people from Loango, purchased in Cabinda, Angola, were the largest group of slaves in Suriname since 1670; they surpassed...
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  • aircraft made a flapless landing in Chennai, India. November 4, 1980 – a TAAG Angola Airlines 737-200 registered as D2-TAA landed short of the runway at Benguela...
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  • received in December. In April 1994 the government bought $463 million worth of fighter aircraft and tanks. By late 1994 the Angolan government had purchased...
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    2023. "Ana Coimbra eleita Miss Angola Universo 2023" [Ana Coimbra elected Miss Angola Universe 2023]. Jornal de Angola (in Portuguese). 23 July 2023....
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    in Angola ended formally after the signing of a United Nations-brokered agreement known as the New York Accords between the governments of Angola, Cuba...
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    ISBN 978-1770073289. Minter, William (1994). Apartheid's Contras: An Inquiry into the Roots of War in Angola and Mozambique. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand...
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  • Gigli Ndefe (category Angola men's international footballers)
    Ostrava in the Czech Republic. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Angola national team. Ndefe formerly played for Eendracht Aalst, RKC Waalwijk and...
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  • recent edition in 2021 returned for the event. DR Congo, South Africa, Angola, Namibia, and Tanzania made their return to the continental tournament after...
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    (ANGOLA), UNIVERSITE RENE DESCARTES PARIS - UFR DE LINGUISTIQUE GENERALE ET APPLIQUEE, 1994 (in French) Luntadila Nlandu Inocente, Nominalisations en kìsìkongò...
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    Angolan nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Angola, as amended; the Nationality Act, and its revisions; and various international agreements...
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    Trisha Fernández (category Spanish people of Angolan descent)
    Trisha Fernández de Jesús (born 19 November 1994) is an Angolan-Spanish actress, well known for her role as Marcia Sampaio in the Spanish telenovela Acacias...
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    Archived March 13, 2015, at the Wayback Machine (March 2015), Capital Angola's Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing Problems (March 2016), Motherboard "Dark...
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  • cerclealgerianiste.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-06-18. "Victimes religieuses en Algérie". La Croix (in French). 2016-04-15. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 2017-06-18...
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    been exported from the former Soviet Union to over 30 countries, including Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, East...
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    guerrillas in eastern Angola. This unit was soon augmented, becoming a group of three squadrons, known as the "Angola Dragoons". The Angola Dragoons operated...
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  • in the final. Egypt set a new record in the 2010 tournament (hosted by Angola) by winning its third consecutive title in an unprecedented achievement...
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