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 ...

Angola declared its independence from Portugal on 11 November, 1975. But in a country where the majority of the population was born after the civil war, the celebrations give rise to a question: what ...

LUANDA (Reuters) - José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola for nearly four decades, winning a brutal civil war and overseeing an oil-fuelled boom that did little to alleviate poverty, died on Friday ...

My wife is Portuguese. Actually, she's of mixed Portuguese and Angolan descent. Her mother and father fled Luanda during the first years of the Angolan civil war, and settled in Lisbon. We now live in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On November 25, Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975, and NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2006, ...