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Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the western coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country after Brazil in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The Angolan province of Cabinda is an exclave on the Atlantic coast, bordering the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda.
Angola has been inhabited since the Palaeolithic Age. After the Bantu expansion reached the region, states were formed by the 13th century and organised into confederations. The Kingdom of Kongo ascended to achieve hegemony among the other kingdoms from the 14th century. Portuguese explorers established relations with Kongo in 1483. To the south were the kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba, with the Ovimbundu kingdoms further south, and the Mbunda Kingdom in the east.
The Portuguese began colonising the coast in the 16th century. Kongo fought three wars against the Portuguese, ending in the Portuguese conquest of Ndongo. The banning of the slave trade in the 19th century disrupted Kongo's undiversified economic system and European settlers gradually began to establish their presence in the interior of the region. The Portuguese colony that became Angola did not achieve its present borders until the early 20th century and experienced strong resistance from native groups such as the Cuamato, the Kwanyama, and the Mbunda. (Full article...)
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Health in Angola is rated among the worst in the world.
In 2022, the Human Rights Measurement Initiative found that Angola was achieving 55.4% of what it should be fulfilling in terms of the right to health based on what should be possible at its level of income. When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Angola achieves 79.0% of what is expected based on its current income. In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves only 71.0% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income. Angola falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 16.2% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available. (Full article...)
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Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, known as Alda Lara (9 June 1930, Benguela, Angola – 30 January 1962, Cambambe, Angola) was a Portuguese-language Angolan poet. (Full article...)
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- ... that at the time of its construction, the tallest building in the capital of Angola was a tomb?
- ... that Sonangol Sinopec International once outbid both ExxonMobil and British Petroleum for two oil sites in Angola?
- ... that the MPLA launched the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola in 1963 hoping to secure support from the Organisation of African Unity, but the move had the opposite effect?
- ... that the kingdom of Kulembebe in modern-day Angola may have been founded in the 13th century?
- ... that the machete in the flag of Angola symbolizes peasants, agriculture, and the country's war of independence?
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