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ANGOLA: Progress on sleeping sickness brings new challenges
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CAXITO, 30 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - International medical NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) handed over its final sleeping sickness project in Angola to the Health Ministry last week, having successfully contained and stabilised the disease. Full report
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ANGOLA: Resettlement, land reform boost agricultural production
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JOHANNESBURG, 18 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - Angola's ongoing agricultural recovery is being driven by the successful return and resettlement of displaced people and refugees, and a land reform programme granting property rights to rural farming communities. Full report
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ANGOLA: Needs are dropping, but aid dropping faster, WFP
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JOHANNESBURG, 16 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - Despite encouraging growth in Angola's agricultural production and declining numbers of people in need, food insecurity remains a problem in many parts of the country, says the World Food Programme (WFP).Full report
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ANGOLA: Oil rich but dirt poor
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JOHANNESBURG, 10 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - On the back of record oil prices, Africa's second largest producer, Angola, has one of the continent's fastest growing economies while its people remain among the poorest. Full report
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ANGOLA: Top athlete appeals as WFP ops face closure
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LUANDA, 3 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - World marathon record holder Paul Tergat has appealed to the international community to support the World Food Programme's (WFP) school feeding projects in Angola after the UN food agency said a cash shortage could force it to pull out of the country entirely by March. Full report
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ZAMBIA: Bleak new year for refugees as ration cuts loom
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JOHANNESBURG, 23 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - Congolese and Angolan refugees in Zambia face a bleak new year with the threat of a 50 percent cut in food rations from 1 January unless urgent funding is secured. Full report
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ANGOLA-ZAMBIA: Refugee repatriation comes to an end
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LUSAKA, 20 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - This year's repatriation of Angolan refugees from Zambia has been halted after 17,659 people were assisted to return home. Full report
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ANGOLA: Peace raises fear of increased land conflict
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LUANDA, 19 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - Humanitarian workers are increasingly anxious that land conflict in Angola is set to rear its head after more than 600 families were uprooted in a suburb of the capital last month to make way for a new housing scheme. Full report
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ANGOLA: Bureaucracy and over-reliance on oil revenues hinder small business
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LUANDA, 7 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - Outdated and poorly implemented rules and regulations, coupled with an over-reliance on income from oil and diamonds, are hampering the development of small and medium businesses in Angola, causing slow growth and stagnant employment as the country tries to recover from decades of civil war.Full report
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GREAT LAKES: Returning refugees risk being displaced
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NAIROBI, 6 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of refugees in the Great Lakes region have started returning home, but without adequate support they could reignite conflicts and end up joining the millions of people displaced within their own countries, a senior UN official said on Tuesday. Full report
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