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President Droupadi Murmu arrived in Luanda on Sunday for a State visit, marking 40 years of India-Angola diplomatic relations. She will hold bilateral talks with President Joao Lourenço, address Parliament, and attend Angola’s 50th independence anniversary before visiting Botswana.

Roque Jose Florencio, nicknamed Pata Seca, who was born in 1828 in Angola was turned into a "breeding slave" and forced into fathering more than 200 children, making him a direct ancestor of about 30% of the population of Santa Eudoxia, Sao Carlos.

Luanda: A rare 170-carat pink diamond, weighing 34 grams, thought to be the largest in the last 300 years, has been discovered in Angola. The pink stone has been named the “Lulo Rose”, after the mine in Angola where it was found. It will be sold later this year through an international tender to be conducted […]

Hyderabad: In a major seizure, eight kilograms of cocaine, said to be worth Rs.80 crore in the market, was seized from two foreign nationals by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in a late night operation on Sunday. Two air passengers, a male Tanzanian national, travelling from Cape Town […]

Nowhere on Earth do pirates strike more often than the Gulf of Guinea, where more than 130 sailors were taken hostage last year.

Angola is the third largest producer of diamonds in Africa and has only explored 40 per cent of the diamond-rich territory within the country