Actually, she's of mixed Portuguese and Angolan descent. Her mother and father fled Luanda during the first years of the Angolan civil war, and settled in Lisbon. We now live in Los Angeles ...

The diplomacy marks an effort to move beyond the bitter legacy of Lisbon’s colonial rule that ended in 1975 when Portugal withdrew without handing over power and Angola sank into civil war until ...

all in short supply in an economy that has yet to finish rebuilding the damage wrought by a civil war that raged from 1975 until 2002, when dos Santos Sr. finally defeated the UNITA rebel movement. In ...

Why not pass the hat among the old Portuguese colonies - Macau has plenty of gambling revenue, fast-growing Angola has oil and diamonds and Goa is easily the wealthiest state in India - and give ...

The oil-rich country has invested billions of euros to rebuild infrastructure destroyed by decades of civil war. Many of the 200.000 Portuguese in Angola work in construction. The decision to end ...

ISBN: 1869193512 Portugal, the first of the European ... leading to protracted brutal wars in Mozambique, Guinea, and Angola, which, although rarely making headlines, inevitably became entangled in ...

The crisis in Portugal in combination with the strong post-war economic growth in Angola led to a drastic change in migration flows between Portugal and Angola. By 2014, estimates indicated that ...

After achieving independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola’s fractured liberation movement was quickly hijacked by the Cold War machinations of East and West. The former Soviet Union supported ...

Portuguese state prosecutors have charged the vice-president of Angola, its former colony, with corruption and money laundering. A statement from the Prosecutor General's office in Lisbon Thursday ...

The Angolan government has been campaigning against Portuguese media in Lisbon disseminating Unita war communiques and political statements issued by activists resident in Portugal. Most Unita ...

The Salazar dictatorship has collapsed and the defeat of the Portuguese in the Angolan War of Independence is in sight. The narrator, Rui, is 15 years old. He is one of the thousands of settlers ...