Angola - Information, including travel tips, relevant to this nation of southwestern Africa. Contains a map, advisories, and materials on history, the economy, society, and government. Also provides visa requirements for U.S. citizens.
Angola - Brief overview of the geography, government structure, economy, population, defense system, and infrastructure, prepared annually by the Central Intelligence Agency. Includes a map and a reproduction of the flag.
Destinations-Angola - Travel guide to this country. Provides notes on climate, history, economy, culture, society, politics, transportation, and major cities.
Lobito, Angola - Lobito, city and Angola's chief port, located 400 kilometers south of Luanda, western Angola, in Benguela Province, on Lobito Bay (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean), near the city of Benguela. The city is the ocean terminus of the important Benguela Railway, which carries the mineral wealth of the southern Zaire and Northern Zambia. Lobito exports copper, tin, cobalt, manganese, uranium and zinc from the mines. Exports from central Angola include iron, sisal, cotton, coffee, sugar, grains, beeswax, hides and skins and salt. The port has complete oil- and coal-bunkering facilities. Local plants process sugar, rice and castor oil and manufacture cement. Industries include shipbuilding and food processing. Founded (1843) by the Portuguese and built mainly on reclaimed land, the city became a commercial center after the completion (1929) of the Benguela RR, but declined in the 1970s due to damage of port facilities during the war of independence from Portugal.
Welcome to the Republic of Angola - A colony of Portugal for 400 years, Angola gained its independence in 1975. Situated in equatorial Africa, Angola is rich in oil, gold, and other resources. Portuguese is the official business and international language, but Angola also has six national languages: Kikongo, Kimbundo, Umbundu, Chokwe, Mbunda, and Oxikuanyama. Political unrest has prevented development; according to the information here, the humanitarian crisis is still acute in Angola, and the United Nations and Red Cross relief efforts continue to help. In February 1997, Princess Diana of Great Britain visited Angola as a Red Cross volunteer. She focused world attention on the deadly legacy of years of military activity in the region: buried and forgotten land mines. Children and adults step on these hidden explosive mines and are sometimes killed or horribly maimed. A movement to demine the landscape is in progress, but the process is slow and the number of hidden mines is unknown.
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