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Transparency in oil rich economies
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Author: U4 Issue 2:2007
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Date Written: 8 May 2008
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Primary Category:
Angola
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Document Origin: Christen Michelsen Institute via Eldis
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Secondary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Source URL:
http://www.cmi.no/
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Key Words: Angola, transparency, bribery, financial information
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Summary & Comment:
Here are the Abstract and excerpted sections from a 26 page paper. To read the whole paper see: http://www.cmi.no/publications/file/?2817
Corruption is a serious problem in many developing countries that are rich in oil and other natural resources. This is central in explaining why resource rich countries perform badly in terms of socioeconomic de . . .
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Nun recounts ’miracle’ of reunion with lost brother
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Author: Medical Missionaries of Mary e-newsletter
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Date Written: 2 May 2008
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Primary Category:
Angola
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Document Origin: MMM e-newsletter, Issue No. 71 via CISA
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.cisanewsafrica.org
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Key Words: Angola, civil war, family reunion, happiness
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Summary & Comment:
From outside Angola, we may forget the many ongoing repercussions of the civil war that ended in 2002. This is a heartwarming story of a family reunion of the 3 (of on original 7) that survived the war. JK
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Elections Chief assures permanent relation with journalists
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Author: ANGOP
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Date Written: 1 May 2008
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Primary Category:
Angola
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Document Origin: Angola Press
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Secondary Category:
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Source URL:
http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/
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Key Words: Angola, Election Commission, journalists, access, transparency.
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Summary & Comment:
The Government Press reports this seminar run by the Electoral Copmmission for local and foreign journalists assuring them of access and transpareancy in the upcoming elections, tentatively scheduled for September. There are some strong independent local publications and newspapers, but it is not clear how many independent radio/TV stations beyond . . .
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MPLA propose changes to electoral law
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Author: Angola Peace Monitor May 2008
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Date Written: 1 May 2008
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Primary Category:
Angola
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Document Origin: Issue no.7, Vol.XIV ACTSA.
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.actsa.org
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Key Words: Angola, registration, elections, voters’ rolls
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Summary & Comment:
Two short articles on election preparation. Registration proceeds though the actual date is not yet announced. Re the outcome, President Samakuva of UNITA did not argue that he is likely to win in this September’s poll, telling Reuters "we are working to win a majority in parliament, but a victory for us would mean keeping our current head cou . . .
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Angola allows arms ship to dock
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Author: BBC
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Date Written: 25 April 2008
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Primary Category:
Angola
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Document Origin: BBC News
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Secondary Category:
Zimbabwe
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Source URL:
http://www.canadianipp.org
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Key Words: Angola, China, Weapons, Zimbabwe
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Summary & Comment:
Angola was the only country in Southern Africa to allow a shipment of arms bound for Zimbabwe. As a result of the Chinese investments in the country Angola is bound to the powerful, Asian economy and seems to have no reservations about their strongest investors doing whatever they like such as shipping weapons. EP
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Energy takes much of China Loan
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Author: ANGOP
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Date Written: 11 April 2008
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Primary Category:
Angola
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Document Origin: ANGOP
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Secondary Category:
Economic Justice
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Source URL:
http://www.angolapress-angop.ao
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Key Words: Angola, China, Economy, Investments
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Summary & Comment:
Finance minister, Josè Pedro de Morais claims that 18 to 20 per cent of the global amount of the first loan from China was invested to promote energy and water as well as education. If this is true China is strengthening its position in the country as well as in other African countries by fuelling public and private sectors and creating the basis f . . .
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Sex work in separatist Cabinda
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Author: PLUS News, Cabinda
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Date Written: 11 April 2008
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Primary Category:
Angola
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Document Origin: IRIN/plus News
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Secondary Category:
Gender
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Source URL:
http://www.plusnews.org/
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Key Words: Angola, Cabinda, sexworkers, condoms, HIV/AIDS,
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Summary & Comment:
Money and men are in no short supply in the petroleum-rich Angolan enclave of Cabinda. Workers from the petroleum industry, truck drivers, merchants, and some 60,000 soldiers and police are based in the area; and sex workers from the country’s poor and unstable neighbours are crossing Cabinda’s porous borders trying to make ends meet. Since 2001, w . . .
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