The Angolan government is preparing to disburse a million US dollars to modernize and develop media organizations next year.

After more than three decades of war, the humanitarian situation in Angola is catastrophic. Yet with Angola's resources in oil and diamonds, it could be one of the richest countries in the developing world. Read Oxfam's latest in-depth briefing on the country's troubles.

The Angolan ministry of health and the World Health Organisation has delivered US$7-million worth of medical supplies to outlying regions in the country.

Angolan rebels have gunned down more than 80 diamond diggers in an attack in the
gem-rich northeast of the country.

Big Nelo looks like your typical thugged-out rapper, dressed in designer baggies with several heavy silver chains draped round his neck. But the founding member of Angola's first and most successful hip hop band, SSP, has a social conscience rarely found among his American contemporaries.

The Angolan government has warned that at least four million Angolans run the risk of catching sleeping disease, due to the precarious conditions of housing and sanitation.

A UN technical team is on an 'exploratory mission' in Angola to learn about the country's peace process and the consolidation of democracy.

Suspected UNITA rebels attacked a power station on the outskirts of the Angolan capital, Luanda, early on Tuesday - bringing the rebel movement's current wave of attacks closer to the capital than ever before.

The acts of terrorism perpetrated in Angola by Jonas Savimbi`s UNITA movement deserve the same condemnation by the international community as that levelled against the perpetrators of the World Trade Centre attacks, says the UN.

The first edition of Angola's national theatre festival will take place in October in the far-northern city of Cabinda. The aim of the festival is to promote cultural exchange and a knowledge of the cultural potentials and diversities of Angola.

National reconciliation in Angola should not just involve the MPLA government and the UNITA rebel movement, the war-torn country’s traditional authorities said in Luanda on Thursday.

More than 3,000 Angolan refugees who have fled to the Democratic Republic of
Congo in the wake of a UNITA offensive, have made a two-day journey on foot to villages 50km from the Angolan/DRC border.

More than 3,000 Angolan refugees who have fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the wake of a UNITA offensive, have made a two-day journey on foot to villages 50km from the Angolan/DRC border.

The Angolan government hopes to re-integrate disabled people into the economy in an US$11,400 pilot project.

The British-Angola Forum / Catholic Institute for International Relations are holding a conference on Western Foreign Policy towards Angola in the new millennium on the 24th and 25th September. The conference will be held at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and is open to all those with an interest in Angola. Speaker include Dr. Carlos Feijo, Minister in the Office of the Presidency, Dr. Jorge Chicoti, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rev. Jose Chipenda and many other eminent speaker on Angola. Dame Margaret Anstee will give the opening address at the conference. For further information please contact Teresa O'Shannassy on +44 207 957 5718 or email.

A late donation to the World Food Programme (WFP) has guaranteed food rations to more than one million people in Angola until the end of December, according to WFP Public Affairs Officer in Luanda, Cristina Muller. However, Muller told IRIN on Thursday that there were still shortages on the horizon.

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has announced he will not run in the next election. However, the ongoing instability in the country means that a date for that election remains far from clear. President dos Santos told the congress of the ruling MPLA that the election could take place in 2002 or 2003.

The international humanitarian organisation Oxfam says the Angolan government is responding inadequately to the needs of people displaced by the civil war. Speaking at the end of a visit to Angola, Oxfam's director Barbara Stocking said an end to the war was the only way out of the humanitarian crisis in the country, and called on the international community to support a negotiated peace.

A patch of bare earth dotted with smoking fires has become home to the hundreds of people who arrive each day at the displaced people's camps outside Camacupa in the Angolan province of Bié.

Concern has warned of a "potential catastrophe" in the Angolan city of Kuito as malnutrition and mortality rates rise among 300,000 people that have fled fighting in surrounding areas.