In the context of the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002), thousands of Cuban civilian collaborators carried out reconstruction ...

Between 1975 and 2002, Angola was locked in one of the world’s bloodiest wars. About half a million people lost their lives in the conflict, which saw two former liberation movements face off against ...

JOHANNESBURG — Angola‘s long-running civil war killed off the country’s film industry, but now the violent conflict is the subject of the first local feature to be made in 20 years. Portuguese ...

In the early hours of a humid November morning in 1975, the runway at Luanda’s airport was alive with anxiety and the roar of a jet engine. Cabinda Gulf Oil, now Chevron, had chartered a South African ...

Angola has its first ever Man Booker International Prize nominee. José Eduardo Agualusa's A General Theory of Oblivion recounts the tale of one woman's isolationist reaction to the southern African ...

President Bush called Tuesday for a cease-fire in Angola following the death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, telling President Jose Eduardo dos Santos to "seize this moment" to end 26 years of war. The ...

1961 _ Fighting erupts in the Portuguese colony as three anti-colonial guerrilla movements battle for independence. 1974 _ Military coup in Portugal paves way for Angola independence a year later.

CABO LEDO, Angola (Reuters Life!) - It used to be unthinkable for even the most daredevil surfers to venture south of Luanda toward the beach of Cabo Ledo during almost four decades of wars in the ...

"I was defending this area during the war," Domingo Seiala explains hunched over his rusted crutches -- a constant reminder of the injuries he sustained during the Angolan civil war. Former soldiers ...