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1.	Transparency in oil rich economies
	Author: U4 Issue 2:2007	Date Written: 8 May 2008
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Christen Michelsen Institute via Eldis
	Secondary Category: Resource Extraction	Source URL: http://www.cmi.no/
	Key Words: Angola, transparency, bribery, financial information
	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 . . . [expand]
2.	Nun recounts ’miracle’ of reunion with lost brother
	Author: Medical Missionaries of Mary e-newsletter	Date Written: 2 May 2008
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: MMM e-newsletter, Issue No. 71 via CISA
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.cisanewsafrica.org
	Key Words: Angola, civil war, family reunion, happiness
	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
3.	Elections Chief assures permanent relation with journalists
	Author: ANGOP	Date Written: 1 May 2008
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Angola Press
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/
	Key Words: Angola, Election Commission, journalists, access, transparency.
	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 . . . [expand]
4.	MPLA propose changes to electoral law
	Author: Angola Peace Monitor May 2008	Date Written: 1 May 2008
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Issue no.7, Vol.XIV ACTSA.
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.actsa.org
	Key Words: Angola, registration, elections, voters’ rolls
	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 . . . [expand]
5.	Angola allows arms ship to dock
	Author: BBC	Date Written: 25 April 2008
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: BBC News
	Secondary Category: Zimbabwe	Source URL: http://www.canadianipp.org
	Key Words: Angola, China, Weapons, Zimbabwe
	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
6.	Energy takes much of China Loan
	Author: ANGOP	Date Written: 11 April 2008
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: ANGOP
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.angolapress-angop.ao
	Key Words: Angola, China, Economy, Investments
	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 . . . [expand]
7.	Sex work in separatist Cabinda
	Author: PLUS News, Cabinda	Date Written: 11 April 2008
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: IRIN/plus News
	Secondary Category: Gender	Source URL: http://www.plusnews.org/
	Key Words: Angola, Cabinda, sexworkers, condoms, HIV/AIDS,
	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 . . . [expand]

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