Angola country climate and development report
Climate change is already affecting people’s lives and livelihoods in Angola, as well as the Angolan economy. The country is experiencing increasingly severe and frequent climate hazards, including the
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Drought affects 1.4 million in Angola: Unicef
Luanda - More than 1.4 million people in Angola, including many children, have been affected by a "chronic drought" that has increased the risk of disease, a UN report said Wednesday. Seven southern
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US will run out of yellow fever vaccine by 'mid 2017' warns report
American's stocks of yellow fever vaccines are set to run out this summer, the country's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned. In the body's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report
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Crop-eating armyworm marches on, UN says Angola now hit
The fall armyworm - which decimates fields as it marches ever forward - has spread to Angola as the caterpillar eats its way through southern Africa, a U.N. agency said. With Angola the latest country
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Hydropower project set to boost Angola’s energy sector
Angola’s energy sector is set to augment as the government has approved a 18MW hydropower plant to be built in the northwestern region. The US-based clean energy company, Dominovas Energy Corporation
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Nigeria loses Africa’s top oil producer position to Angola
Nigeria’s crude oil production fell by 156,900 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.269 million bpd in March, from 1.426mbpd recorded in February. Consequently, the country lost its status as Africa’s top oil producer
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No change in northern flood situation
VILLAGERS in the Oshana region affected by the flash floods from Angola, also known as efundja, will have to wait a while longer before they can access health facilities and other amenities because water
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Congo declares end of yellow fever
Democratic Republic of Congo's worst yellow fever outbreak in decades has ended two months after Angola declared its epidemic to be over, following a massive UN-backed vaccine campaign, the World Health
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Angola Gains Recycling Plant in Luanda
Luanda — A recycling plant dubbed "Angola Recicla", to value the solid waste, previously taken to landfills, was inaugurated on Monday in Luanda by the Environment minister, Fátima Jardim. Located at the
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Economic development and forest cover: Evidence from satellite data
<p>Ongoing deforestation is a pressing, global environmental issue with direct impacts on climate change, carbon emissions, and biodiversity. There is an intuitive link between economic development and
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Angola declares end to deadly yellow fever epidemic
Luanda - Angola on Friday declared the end of a yellow fever outbreak that killed at least 400 people, after an emergency United Nations vaccination campaign covering 25 million people. The outbreak erupted