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The Lulo Rose, a pink diamond, the largest in 300 years, is discovered at the Lulo mine in Lunda Norte Province, Angola.
2022-07-27

Argentina donates 780,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Angola, Kenya and Barbados, which have all detected cases of the Omicron variant.
2021-11-29

Voters in Angola go to the polls to elect 220 National Assembly members. The leader of the winning party will become the new president, following the retirement of José Eduardo dos Santos, who has held the role since 1979.
2017-08-23

At least 17 people are killed with dozens injured in a crowd stampede at a football stadium in Uíge, Angola.
2017-02-10

Angola joins the Chemical Weapons Convention becoming the 192nd state to join the convention aimed at eliminating the use of chemical weapons in armed conflict.
2015-09-22

Angola becomes the first modern country to outlaw Islam, along with other religions unapproved by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. Mosques are being destroyed.
2013-11-24

The United Nations says that more than 650 women and children have been detained, tortured and sexually abused during mass evictions from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2010-11-6

The Parliament of Angola approves a new constitution that abolishes direct presidential elections.
2010-01-21