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Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (Portuguese: República e Angola, pronounced IPA: [ʁɛ'publikɐ dɨ ɐ̃'gɔlɐ] Kongo: Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean. The exclave province Cabinda has a border with the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Angola is a former Portuguese colony and has considerable natural resources, most notably petroleum and diamonds.

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  • In the 1980s the U.S.-backed FNLA & UNITA battled the Cuban-backed MPLA for control of this country
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  • It was once known as Portuguese West Africa
  • In February the U.N. voted to send 7,000 peacekeepers to this southern African nation
  • In February 1961 violence erupted in this Portuguese possession in west Africa
  • On southern Africa's west coast, it's been independent of Portugal since 1975
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a map on a screen) Cabinda Province is an exclave belonging neither to the Congo nor the Democratic Republic of the Congo which surround it, but to this large country just to the south
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  • Found in southern Africa, it's the largest African country that once was a colony of Portugal
  • Diamonds are a major export of this former Portuguese colony
  • Until 1975 Jonas Savimbi fought Portuguese rule of this country; then he fought the new independent govt.
  • Cabinda, an area of this former Portuguese colony, is separated from the rest of it by Zaire
  • Portuguese West Africa
  • In west Africa:Luanda
  • It has ports on the Atlantic & you'll find Namibia on its southern border
  • In 1975 Cuba sent nearly 18,000 troops to aid guerrilla fighters in this country
  • If you want to go from "A" to "Z" you can travel from this "A" country to Zambia next door
  • It was formerly referred to as Portuguese West Africa
  • It has an Atlantic coastline of about 1,000 miles, & Bantu is its largest language group

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