2019 in Angola information

Events in the year 2019 in Angola. President: João Lourenço Vice President: Bornito de Sousa 23 January – The National Assembly agrees a new criminal code...

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking)...

The economy of Angola remains heavily influenced by the effects of four decades of conflict in the last part of the 20th century, the war for independence...

(known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated...

TAAG Angola Airlines E.P. (Portuguese: TAAG Linhas Aéreas de Angola E.P.) is a state-owned airline and flag carrier of Angola. Based in Luanda, the airline...

The Angola national football team (Portuguese: Seleção nacional de futebol de Angola) represents Angola in men's international football and is controlled...

The national flag of Angola came into use when Angola gained independence on November 11, 1975. It is split horizontally into an upper red half and a lower...

The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, abbr. MPLA), for some years[when?] called the...

Transport in Angola comprises: Two trans-African automobile routes pass through Angola: the Tripoli-Cape Town Highway the Beira-Lobito Highway Map of Trans-African...

The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...

Braian Alexander Angola-Rodas (born April 6, 1994) is a Colombian professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier...

"Angola Avante" (English: "Onwards Angola", lit. '"Angola onward"') is the national anthem of Angola. Ruy Mingas composed the music, while the lyrics...

Angola is located on the western Atlantic Coast of Southern Africa between Namibia and the Republic of the Congo. It also is bordered by the Democratic...

of Angola (Portuguese: União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966...

Angola competed at the 2019 African Games held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. In total, two gold medals, two silver medals and four bronze...

gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Angola have seen improvements in the early 21st century. In November 2020, the National Assembly approved...

and other aspects. According to 2014 census data, Angola had a population of 25,789,024 inhabitants in 2014. Ethnically, there are three main groups, each...

following Angolan independence. It replaced the escudo at par and was subdivided into 100 lwei. Its ISO 4217 code was AOK. Following a change in currency...

was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...

Libertação Nacional ("Armed Struggle of National Liberation") in Angola, began as an uprising by Angolans against the Portuguese imposition of forced cultivation...

United Nations Angola Verification Mission I (I UNAVEM) was a peacekeeping mission that existed from January 1989 to June 1991 in Angola during the civil...

Angola has long been severely criticized for its human rights record. A 2012 report by the U.S. Department of State said, "The three most important human...

Angola Three are three African American former prison inmates (Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace) who were held for decades in solitary...

language of Angola. Angolan Portuguese (Portuguese: português de Angola) is a group of dialects and accents of Portuguese used in Angola. In 2005 it was...

and largest city of Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast...