HUAMBO

wämˈbō, formerly Nova Lisboanōˈvə lēzhvōˈə, city (1983 est. pop. 203,000), W central Angola. The chief town of inland Angola, Huambo stands on a high plateau and serves as a road, rail, and air transport hub and as a commercial and shipping center for a rich agricultural region. Its railway repair shops are among the largest in Africa. Huambo exports grain, rice, hides, skins, and fruit. Milling and the production of lime are carried on in the city. Since independence in 1976, civil war has devastated the city's economy; Huambo has been a stronghold of the UNITA leader, Jonas Savimbi. Huambo was founded in 1912.

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books on: Huambo  - 60 results

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The Angolan Economy: Prospects for Growth in a Postwar Environment
Book by Shawn H. Mccormick; Westview Press, 1994
...limited traffic to a trickle. Service past Huambo was truncated in 1982 following a determined...repair and training school operates in Huambo, and a diesel locomotive repair facility...was restored from the coastal region to Huambo. Plans to expand service farther inland...
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The Mental Health of Refugees: Ecological Approaches to Healing and Adaptation
Book by Kenneth E. Miller, Lisa M. Rasco; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004
province) and Huambo (capital of Huambo province), where there was a secure perimeter of approximately...security of the situation permitted, work was extended to Kuito and Huambo. However, throughout the project, security remained a major...
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Angola: Struggle for Peace and Reconstruction
Book by Inge Tvedten; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Angola--Economic Conditions--1975-, Angola--Politics And Government--1975-, Angola--Social Conditions
...main victims. For everybody, the Battle of Huambo has left deep scars. Accounts given to Human...became much worse for us on our escape from Huambo. It is true that UNITA let us out of Huambo, but it was like a cat with a mouse. It played...
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Angola, a Country Study
Book by Thomas Collelo; U.S. G.P.O., 1991
Subjects: Angola
...workers. Cuando Cubango Menongue Regional Hospital 130 General medical, surgical, X-ray, and laboratory. Huambo Huambo Huambo Hospital 600 General medical, orthopedic; depends on UNICEF and International Committee of the Red Cross for...
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Great Debates at the United Nations: An Encyclopedia of Fifty Key Issues 1945-2000
Book by Robert F. Gorman; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: United Nations--Encyclopedias
...temporary coali- tion government in Huambo, formerly New Lisbon. Fighting broke...support the coalition government in Huambo, they later with- drew. In 1976 the MPLA captured the UNITA stronghold of Huambo, forcing it and the FNLA to resort...
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Peacekeeping and the Lusaka Protocol *
Journal article by Dawn M. Hewitt; Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol. 26, 1999
Subjects: Angola--Politics and government, Civil war--Analysis, Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes--Analysis, Peace treaties--Interpretation and construction
...quartering areas and increased tensions in Huambo and Cuanza Sul provinces where the extension...300 men attacked a UN post at NGove in Huambo province. While the peacekeepers escaped...disengagement of FAA and FALA forces in Huambo and Uige provinces, guaranteed the free...
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Angola's Elusive Peace: the Collapse of the Lusaka Accord
Journal article by Ian S. Spears; International Journal, Vol. 54, 1999
Subjects: Angola, Civil war
...Protocol, the government had launched a final offensive against Huambo, Angolas second largest -- and UNITa-held -- city. While...UNITA counter-attacked north and west and laid siege to Huambo, Kuito, and Malanje, three government-held towns. The...
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Humanitarian Action and Conflict
Journal article by S. Neil MacFarlane; International Journal, Vol. 54, 1999
Subjects: Disaster relief, Social aspects, War
...humanitarian flights to the besieged UNITA-controlled city of Huambo. As a result, the humanitarian situation in a city swollen...were fully restocked. Government forces then attacked, took Huambo, and systematically looted the warehouses. In effect, the...
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Back to the Future? International Private Security Companies in Darfur and the Limits of the Executive Outcomes Example
Journal article by Christopher Spearin; International Journal, Vol. 64, 2009
Subjects: Darfur Sudan, Foreign policy, Military readiness, Military training, Rebellions, Security services, United States
...Soyo in November 1994. By the end of 1994, UNITA had lost all its major urban footholds and its traditional stronghold of Huambo. Executive Outcomes and the Angolan armed forces also worked to disrupt UNITAs illegal diamond trading along the Zairian border...
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From Universal Prescriptions to Living Rights: Local and Indigenous Water Rights Confront Public-Private Partnerships in the Andes
Journal article by Rutgerd Boelens; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Andes--Natural resources, Andes--Social aspects, Irrigation water--Access control, Public-private sector cooperation--Economic aspects, Rural development--Environmental aspects, Water rights--Analysis
...authors fieldwork in 2000. See also Didrik Meier, "Gestion del agua en los Andes. Estudio de caso de los sistemas Quillunza-Huambo v Cotahuasi-Piro, Peru" (research document, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands: 2000); Guillaume...
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Angola: A Giant Awakes
Magazine article by Brendan Sainsbury; New African, December 2006
Subjects: Angola--Description and travel, Angola--Political aspects, Angola--Social aspects
...been turned. Brendan Sainsbury reports. Huambo had never known a night like it. When...formerly as Nova Lisboa (New Lisbon), Huambo was once renowned for its attractive parks...locked in a desperate battle for survival, Huambo descended into anarchy with MPLA government...
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Savimbi, Bloody Savimbi: Angola Betrayed
Magazine article by Victoria Brittain; The Nation, Vol. 259, July 11, 1994
Subjects: Civil war--Angola
...the four central/southern provinces of Huambo, Bie, Benguela and Cuando Cubango...the new national army, secretly fled to Huambo and set up an alternative power base to...the flights to Savimbis headquarters in Huambo, launching the international communitys...
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MPLA Decisive Victory: Angola's Legislative Elections on 5 September Saw the Ruling MPLA Win a Landslide Victory with 81.64% of the Vote, Reducing the Opposition to a Residual Political Force. the Main Opposition Party, UNITA, Managed to Get a Mere 10.39% of the Vote and 16 Parliamentary Seats. What Does His Portend for the Future of Democracy in the Country? Asks Paula Roque in Luanda
Magazine article by Paula Roque; New African, November 2008
Subjects: Elections--Political aspects, Rockslides--Political aspects
...UNITA troops retook the provinces of Huambo and Bie from government forces and proceeded...Andulo and Bailundo in the province of Huambo. This postponed indefinitely the option...deputy governors of Kwanza Sul, Benguela, Huambo, Bie and Luanda. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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Angola: The Business of Survival
Magazine article by Bram Posthumus; African Business, February 1999
Subjects: Africans--Behavior, Angola--Economic aspects, Poverty--Angola
...as they have in the past. San Pedro in Huambo is a vast, vibrant open air supermarket...of the once huge industrial park near Huambo is a collection of skeletal buildings...distillery in a busy bairro (quarter) of Huambo. It sits in a little shed on a family...
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Minority Report
Magazine article by Christopher Hitchens; The Nation, Vol. 248, May 22, 1989
Subjects: Angola--Political aspects, Angolan foreign relations--United States, United States, United States foreign relations--Angola
...Minority Report. by Christopher Hitchens In Huambo, in central Angola, I was awakened one...Reagan doctrine. Not that the people of Huambo were hearing their first bomb. In 1975...for the Angolan government to retake Huambo, which has not since been threatened...
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DIANA 1961-1997: THE LANDMINES: Show the World Our Suffering So Diana's Message Will Never Be Lost
Newspaper article by Gill Swain; The Mirror (London, England), September 15, 1997
...Red Cross to the bullet-ridden city of Huambo, Angola, in January, dragging the eyes...among the victims. At the hospital in Huambo, clinical director Dr Paulinea Duzce...literally torn to shreds by 20 years of war. Huambo is the second city, a once thriving...
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UN Asks Angolans to Hold Fire after Crash
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 28, 1998
Subjects: United Nations
...sources in the central highland city of Huambo as saying they had seen a plane go down...had fired at the aircraft. Kuito and Huambo, which lie some 80 miles apart, have...Lunda Sul, about 390 miles east of Huambo, Mr Toure said.
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I'm Just Trying to Help out; Brave Di Hits Back at Tory Jibes after Walk in the Killing Fields
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 16, 1997
...warned not to step off the pot-holed roads and paths. In Huambo, she donned a flak jacket and visor and walked slowly down...detonated a mine by remote control and also visited a hospital in Huambo to comfort war victims. Again she was dressed casually, in...
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On This Day
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), March 6, 2010
On This Day. ON THIS DAY 1993: Angolans die in battle for Huambo Hundreds of people are reported to have died in clashes between...movement and Angolan government forces in the central town of Huambo. 6March imports The British Government announces an indefinite...
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ONE GOAL TO UNITE US ALL; Our Debt to Di's Landmine Kids
Newspaper article by Mary Riddell; The Mirror (London, England), September 19, 1997
...a small child to face such disaster is unthinkable. Except in Huambo, Angola - Vitorinos home and a place where death and play go hand in hand. Last January Diana visited Huambo during her campaign against landmines. This week, in Oslo, more...
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encyclopedia articles on: Huambo  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Huambo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HUAMBO wam bo, formerly Nova Lisboa no v lezhvo...Angola. The chief town of inland Angola, Huambo stands on a high plateau and serves as a...center for a rich agricultural region. Huambo exports grain, rice, hides, skins, and...
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Angola
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...coastal strip. In addition to Luanda, other important cities are Huambo , Lobito , Benguela , and Namibe . The overwhelming majority...however, proclaimed a coaliton government in Nova Lisboa (now Huambo), but by early 1976 the MPLA had gained control of the whole...
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Nova Lisboa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NOVA LISBOA see Huambo , Angola. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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BiÉ Plateau
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...corn, sisal, peanuts, sugarcane, rice, and coffee to be raised there. It is linked to the sea by the Benguela Railway. Huambo and Cuito are the chief towns. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...


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