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...Washington, however, the region's importance is not simply that al-Qaeda may be trying to expand there; it's that West Africa is slated to become an important supplier of U.S. energy needs. America already imports about as much oil from Africa - principally Nigeria and Angola - as it does from Saudi Arabia, but the African share of the U.S. market is slated to almost double over the next two decades as U.S. companies move to exploit the high-quality offshore deposits in the Guinea basin. Last year, alone, they invested some $10 billion in the region, and that level...
...omen A Boeing 727 plane that disappeared from an airfield in Luanda, Angola, on May 25 has still not been found. Investigators are concerned that it might be used in a 9/11-style suicide attack
...members of the Pan-African Liberation Movement staged a take-over of Mass. Hall, demanding that the University sell its investments in the Gulf Oil Corporation, which they alleged was supporting the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola at that time...
...Salad" in July 1991, when he was a Member of the European Parliament. It was his other employer at the time, the French oil company Elf, that asked him to open the account, he explained. The salad full of greenbacks was earmarked for Jonas Savimbi, the rebel leader in Angola, where Elf was negotiating important contracts. Listening intently in the wood-paneled courtroom of the Paris Tribunal last week, Judge Michel Desplan had some questions. If this $2 million was for Savimbi, how come Verwaerde had allegedly used about $300,000 of it to build a villa for himself...
...ANGOLA...