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Under Portuguese rule for 400 years, Angola was heavily influenced by their European counterparts. Despite this, the main basis of the Angola culture remains African, particularly Bantu.

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Angola is bordered to the far northwest by the Republic of the Congo, to the north and northeast by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the southeast by Zambia, to the south by Namibia, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.

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Angola is roughly square in shape, with a maximum width of about 800 miles (1,300 km), including the Cabinda exclave, which is located along the Atlantic coast just north of Angola’s border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Unfortunately, Neto’s happiness with a “liberated Angola—Angola independent” did not last long, and a civil war that went on 27 years left much of the country in ruins. Beginning in 2002, however, with the ending of the war, Angola had more hope for a peaceful future than it had in the previous quarter century.

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In “We Must Return,” a poem he wrote from prison in 1956, the Angolan poet Agostinho Neto, who was also the country’s first president, described Angola as “red with coffee / white with cotton / green with maize” and as “our land, our mother.

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It is the largest and wealthiest of the Portuguese-speaking African states, and Portuguese influences have been felt for some 500 years, although Angola acquired its present boundaries only in 1891. An anticolonial struggle that began in 1961 finally led to independence in 1975.

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It is a country that is nevertheless rich in natural resources, including precious gems, metals, and petroleum; indeed, it ranks among the highest of the oil-producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Angola at the beginning of the 21st century was a country ravaged by war and the related effects of land mines and malnutrition, and it was often dependent on the international community for the basics of survival.

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The capital and commercial centre is Luanda, a large port city on the northern coast that blends Portuguese-style colonial landmarks with traditional African housing styles and modern industrial complexes.

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Angola, country located in southwestern Africa. A large country, Angola takes in a broad variety of landscapes, including the semidesert Atlantic littoral bordering Namibia’s “Skeleton Coast,” the sparsely populated rainforest interior, the rugged highlands of the south, the Cabinda exclave in the north, and the densely settled towns and cities of the northern coast and north-central river valleys. 

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In 2013, Endiama and ALROSA signed a joint-exploration agreement, which was set to begin in Angola’s Luarica and Fucauma diamond mines in 2014.

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However, the global economic crisis of 2009, which resulted in a reduced demand for rough diamonds, brought mining operations to a halt in that year. In 2011, Trans Hex withdrew from the mine, and Endiama announced that it will restart operations alone.

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The third diamond mine in Angola – Fucauma – is still under construction. According to Rough & Polished, Fucauma was expected to produce approximately 480,000 carats over a four-year period, providing earnings of $70 million.

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The Luarica diamond mine, which produced 95,000 carats of diamonds in 2004, was discontinued after the 2009 global crisis. Part owner Trans Hex withdrew from operations, and in 2011, Endiama said that it planned to restart operations alone. In 2013, Endiama signed an agreement with Russian miner Alrosa to establish a joint venture to conduct geological exploration in the area.

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In 2013, $594 million worth of rough diamonds extracted at Catoca were sold. Over the course of 2013, 6.556 million carats of rough stones were mined at Catoca. This a 2% drop from 2012 numbers.

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There are three diamond mines in Angola. The Catoca Diamond Mine is listed as the fourth-largest kimberlite mine in the world. It is located in central-western Angola in the Lunda Sol province, some 55 kilometers from the city of Saurimo. It is the country’s largest diamond mine, covering some 64 hectares.

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In February 2015, Angolan state diamond mining company Endiama said the country has extensive diamond reserves that are estimated at 300 million carats. Chief Executive Carlos Sumbula told delegates at a mining conference in Cape Town that a significant part of the country remained unexplored. Endiama also noted that of the total 108 areas available for reconnaissance work, prospecting and research, preliminary geological investigation had been conducted in 29 areas.

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Angola’s diamond Production

The Republic of Angola, in Southern Africa, has long relied on diamond production for local economic boost. Currently, Angola’s diamond production is third in the continent – the first two spots taken by Botswana and South Africa respectively. In terms of global production, Angola is seventh, accounting for roughly 5% of world diamond production. According to data published by the Kimberley Process Certification recently, Angola’s production rose 13% to $1.32 billion as volume grew 2% to 8.791 million carats in 2014.