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LONDON, Dec 21, 2023 (AFP) – Crude prices slumped on Thursday after Angola quit the OPEC oil cartel, while Wall Street stocks rebounded after a streak of records was snapped. The price of the main international and US crude contracts dropped more than 1.5 percent after Angola said it was leaving as it did not want to go along with further production cuts that OPEC and 10 Russian-led allies agreed last month. They later pared […]
Luanda, Angola | AFP | A large hydrocarbon deposit has been discovered off the shore of Angola’s capital Luanda at a site operated by American firm ExxonMobil, the country’s national agency for oil, gas and biofuels announced Monday. The deposit was discovered about 365 kilometres (225 miles) northwest of the oil-rich nation’s coast through a drilling 1,100 metres deep, the Angola’s National Agency for Oil, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) said in a statement. The […]
LUANDA, Angola (AFP) — The death toll from a torrential rainstorm that hit Angola’s capital Luanda this week has risen to 24, with more than two thousand homes flooded, officials said. The hours-long storm pounded the coastal city on Monday, triggering flash floods that brought down buildings and swept away trees and cars. “The number of deaths has risen from 14 to 24,” Luanda’s provincial government said in a statement late Wednesday. At least 2,344 […]
LUANDA, Angola (AFP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rains in Angola have killed at least 14 people and displaced around 8,000 in the capital Luanda, the national news agency reported. Bridges and homes collapsed on Monday as hours of heavy rain fell on the ocean-facing city, swamping streets and sweeping away cars and trees. Citing the spokesman for the national civil protection agency Faustino Mingues, news agency Angpop said most of the victims were […]
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AFP) — Namibia’s environment minister on Thursday defended a decision to allow oil and gas drilling in a biodiversity hotspot and near UN-listed cave paintings believed to be thousands of years old. Canada-based firm ReconAfrica is set to begin drilling this month in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) — a unique ecological site spanning parts of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The petroleum exploration company secured rights in 2014 to drill […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Three foreigners who are alleged members of a “budol-budol” gang were arrested in an operation in Pasay last week. Aroon James, 44, Brown Akwe Fonboh, 43, and Gum Blanche Murphy, 28, were nabbed by members of the Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group after they allegedly extorted P250,000 from a Chinese national. It was the Chinese national who sought the help of the police after the suspects demanded […]
LISBON, Portugal (AFP) – Angolan Vice President Manuel Vicente will face trial in Portugal over allegations he bribed a magistrate to drop two investigations against him, according to a Wednesday ruling cited in Portuguese media. Vicente, who was the president of Angolan national oil company Sonangol at the time of the alleged crimes, is accused of bribery, money laundering and document falsification, the public prosecutor’s office said, according to Portugal’s main news agency Lusa. Lisbon’s […]
(REUTERS) Four people died and two were missing after a helicopter crashed en route to a Chevron oil platform off the Angolan coast, the U.S. oil company said on Tuesday. The helicopter left Malongo port in Angola’s Cabinda province on Monday at 1523 local time to make the short journey to the Tombua-Landana offshore oil platform but never arrived. “The helicopter did not reach its intended destination. It was carrying five passengers and one pilot,” […]
by Nina LARSON GENEVA , Switzerland (AFP) — A deadly yellow fever outbreak in Angola and Congo is of great concern but does not amount to a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The UN health body said an emergency meeting of experts had determined that “the urban yellow fever outbreaks in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a serious public health event which warrants intensified national action and […]
Luanda, Angola (AFP)—Separatist guerrillas operating in Angola’s oil-rich Cabinda enclave on Wednesday claimed to have shot dead around 30 Angolan government soldiers in March. Angolan authorities refused to comment on the claims which AFP could not independently verify. The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) has been fighting for the independence of Cabinda for four decades. In a statement received by AFP, the FLEC said it staged an attack on March […]
