Angola

Angola Angola, formerly Portuguese West Africa, is the seventh largest country in Africa. The country can be divided into three major regions: the coastal plain, a transition zone, and the vast inland plateau. Angola has a tropical climate with its vegetation including tropical rain forests, savannas, grasslands, palm trees and even deserts. A great variety of animal life ranging from elephants, rhinoceros, giraffes, and even crocodiles can also be found in this African country (Microsoft

The Angola conflict was a civil war that was located in the South African state of Angola. This 27 year long civil war, that killed an estimated 800,000 people and displace 4 million people, broke out on 11 November 1975, right after the Portuguese colonial rule, and ended in 2002. Similar to many other post colonial states, Angola suffered both social and economical struggles which lead to a power struggle between three predominant liberation movements. It is important for us to study this civil

Background Angola is one of the many African countries which suffered from the Portuguese colonisation in earlier years. The colonisation these African countries suffered from (specifically Angola), began in the mid eighteenth century (Santos, 2010), where European countries identified the many resources that these countries were rich in, and found an opportunity to possess them through migrating to these countries and taking over the governance in these countries, changing the system in a way that

1.1.1 Angola Angola is located in the southern part of Africa, neighboring to Namibia, Zambia and Congo. Estimated of 24.3 million populations today, Angola arose as the upper middle income countries in 2011 due to steady GNI per capita growth. Inherits abundant natural resources mainly oil and diamonds, Angola stands as second largest oil exporter and third biggest economy of Sub Saharan Africa (World Bank Global Economic Prospects June 2015). Oil sector holds the largest share in Angola’s GDP

2 Introduction From colonial rule to civil war, Angola is no stranger to elongated and extremely bloody conflicts. Throughout Angola’s history over the last five hundred years, the effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST) have by far made the longest lasting impact on the nation’s volatile past and future. This horrible marginalization of the country’s population provided a strong foundation that ultimately shaped the country’s future conflicts; a commonality that is shared with many other

Angola is located in south western Africa. Bordered by Zamibia, Nambia, The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Atlantic Ocean, it is Africa’s seventh largest country with a total area of 1,246,700km2. Angola has a rich history full of hardships and grandeur. Its largest and most important city is the capital, Luanda. Angola contains a rich culture made up of diverse urban and tribal peoples. It is a unitary presidential republic and has one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The

with sickness and illness. Growing up both in Angola and the United States, a person is able to reflect on cultures and their own myths as well as beliefs. These cultures are very different from one another in respect to their outlook on illness and hospitalization. Being Angolan in the American healthcare industry, they experience many different attitudes about how to best treat medical illness. During the time of sick or for curing disease in Angola, the people would rather see their traditional

of Angolan citizens. Angola is an African nation located on the South-west coast of Africa. Angola is North of Namibia, West of Zambia, and South of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Angola’s government type is a unitary state. In a unitary government, the power is held by one central authority, but in a federal government, such as: the United States, Canada and Australia, the power is divided between national (federal) and local (state) governments. The president of Angola, Jose Dos Santos, has

Policy Development to Eradicate Yellow Fever in Angola On July 4th , 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) reported the Republic of Angola experienced 3,552 suspected cases (875 laboratory confirmed and 355 deaths) of Yellow Fever (YF) in all 18 of its provinces. On the global health risk front, new cases of YF in people travelling from Angola were reported in China (11 cases), Democratic Republic of Congo (59 cases), Kenya (2 cases), Mauritania (1 case), and Namibia (1 case), despite

effectively destroyed the Kingdom of Kongo in the latter part of the 17th century. The Kongo Kingdom & Portuguese Angola The predecessors of many Angolans moved from different parts of Africa much sooner than the arrival of the first Portuguese in the late 1400s. By the time of the Portuguese’s landing in Africa, the Kongo Kingdom was already founded in the northwestern part of modern day Angola. The first Portuguese to explore the Congo River had many intentions. They planned to bring religion, to promote