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Angola
Joe Biden becomes first US president to pay visit to Angola
The historic first trip by a US president to the sub-Saharan African nation aims to spotlight a 2.8 billion euro US-backed railway project, designed to counter China’s influence on the continent, including its Belt and Road Initiative.
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Best of Angola: Take a look back at this year's growth-geared firms
In partnership with Governo de Angola
Angola benefits from its vast energy and water resources, plus optimal weather for multiple harvests. It's a natural dividend that has led to many companies surging ahead in traditional and renewable energies, innovative agriculture and a new kind of tourism for Angola’s millions-strong diaspora.
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Step inside Mama Africa’s Casa Museu
In partnership with Governo de Angola
Mama Africa, or Aminata Goubel, is also a longtime journalist, now reporting for the national radio. She also encourages youth to take in Angolan culture, joining them in music and dance, including on the beach outside Casa Museu.
Eco-Innovation
A diamond in the rough: Angola’s growing potential as a fruit exporter
In partnership with Governo de Angola
Meet the "Strawberry King" in southwest Huila Province, who says Angola has the best conditions for growing strawberries in the world. And the "Pitaya King", who discovered pitaya, or dragon fruit, in Brazil and learned of its health benefits 12 years ago.
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Beauty and sorrow: Family retraces steps of enslaved Angolan ancestors
In partnership with Governo de Angola
In a voyage of remembrance and natural beauty, Euronews joins a family from Virginia on their historic journey to retrace the path of their ancestors who were taken as slaves in 1619.
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From attorney to Turner? Angolan artist Guilherme Mampuya
In partnership with Governo de Angola
A world away from the day job as a legal advisor he quit two decades ago, artist Guilherme Mampuya, splashes a riot of colours on the canvas in his studio. Combining African and Angolan motifs with those from the giants who inspired him, like Picasso, Dali, and Dubuffet.
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De-mining Angola - The Unseen Threat of Landmines Finally Removed
In partnership with Governo de Angola
Mines Advisory Group (MAG), an NGO committed to the removal of landmines in the Eastern Provinces of Angola, has cleared 1.8 million square meters of land benefitting over 70,000 Angolans.
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Wine and Rum: Angolan producers thrive domestically and eye up the global market
In partnership with Governo de Angola
With a soil and climate that allow two harvests a year, Angola’s Velho do Bero vineyard in Namibe Province is an example of how growers are meeting demand on the domestic market. In Benguela Province, Caxaramba rum uses mainly locally sourced materials to grow, harvest and distil.
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Angola sets its sights on the global coffee market
In partnership with Governo de Angola
Discover two Angolan companies reviving the country's coffee industry and making it their goal to restore the coffee sector back to its former glory days as one of the world's largest producers of the black gold.
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Angola uses the Lobito corridor as a vehicle for investment and growth
In partnership with Governo de Angola
Angola is privatising the port of Lobito and the Lobito corridor railway with the goal of creating business opportunities. It is expected to be the boost the country needs to open a gateway from the Atlantic to the mineral-rich regions of the DRC and Zambia.
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Meet the people behind Angola's COVID-19 response
In partnership with Governo de Angola
Catarina locked down in the hotel where she works in Luanda to ensure it kept running during the pandemic. She is one of many Angolans making an effort to keep the country's economy running smoothly during the health crisis.