Tag: Angola

• Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 08:20 UTC

  Angola quitting OPEC over dispute about oil production quotas

  

  Angolan official media have reported from Luanda that Angola is leaving OPEC, following a meeting of the Council of Ministers, let by the president of the country, Joao Lourenco.

• Monday, August 28th 2023 - 08:52 UTC

  Lula highlights the importance of Portuguese-speaking countries

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday insisted before the 14th Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) in São Tomé, capital of São Tomé and Príncipe, an island country off the west coast of Africa, that the group brought together almost 300 million consumers across four continents, with a GDP of US$ 2.3 trillion, Agência Brasil reported.

• Monday, August 21st 2023 - 10:37 UTC

  Cuban leader reaffirms support for Angola

  

  Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel ratified this weekend during an official trip to Luanda his country's support to the Angolan government, it was reported.

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  The largest pink diamond in 300 years, was mined in Angola, “Rose of Lulo”

  

  Australia's Lupaca Diamond Company has reported that miners in Angola have extracted a rare pure pink diamond, considered the largest to have been discovered in the world in 300 years. The 170-carat, 34 grams diamond has been dubbed “the Rose of Lulo”, after the mine in northeast Angola where it was extracted.

• Wednesday, October 28th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Huge volumes of discovered hydrocarbons remain 'stranded' in South Atlantic fields of Brazil, Angola and Falklands

  

  Huge volumes of discovered hydrocarbons worldwide are currently ‘stranded,’ according to a study by Westwood Global Energy Group. The consultant has identified 119 fields in this category that were found between 2008 and 2016 with collectively 11 Bbbl of oil and 36 Bboe of gas, but currently not progressing toward development, including Brazil, Angola, and the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  Africa's richest woman accused of siphoning millions from Angola's oil company

  

  An award-winning investigative team published a trove of files on Sunday allegedly showing how the daughter of Angola's former president - dubbed Africa's richest woman - siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of public money into offshore accounts.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2016 - 08:05 UTC

  Lula da Silva formally charged with corruption related to contracts in Angola

  

  Brazilian prosecutors said on Monday they had charged former President Lula da Silva and Marcelo Odebrecht, ex-CEO of engineering group Odebrecht SA, with corruption related to contracts in Angola.

• Friday, October 17th 2014 - 06:04 UTC

  Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Venezuela and Spain join the Security Council

  

  In three rounds of voting on Thursday the United Nations General Assembly elected Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela to serve as non-permanent members on the Security Council for two-year terms beginning on 1 January 2015.

• Saturday, April 12th 2014 - 08:21 UTC

  Atlantic patrol HMS Portland busy in Angola and South Africa

  

  The Plymouth based frigate, HMS Portland currently deployed on South Atlantic tasking reached this week South Africa's Cape Town where she was involved in promoting Britain and in charity activities. Previously she made a short stop in the Angolan capital, Luanda to highlight UK’s relationship with Angola and provide training to Angolan Navy personnel.

• Saturday, July 21st 2012 - 06:08 UTC

  Angola approves wide-ranging cooperation agreement with Brazil

  

  Angola’s National Assembly approved this week the Joint Declaration on the Establishment of Strategic Partnership with Brazil, as well as the draft resolution on Cooperation between the two countries in defence domain.