Angola’s envoy to the United States has been spending the early part of this week in Atlanta, taking part in Martin Luther King Jr. Day services and laying the groundwork […]
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Books 2020: The Individualistic Human Condition
Book: Frost Author: Thomas Bernhard Review by: Oliver Gorf, executive director, Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta It required a pandemic to encourage enough soul searching to finally make me read this novel by […]
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Books 2018: The Underdog Empire of the Portuguese
Book: Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire Author: Roger Crowley Review by: Kirk Bowman, Jon R. Wilcox Chair in Soccer and Global Politics, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia […]
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Angolan Firm Printing Secure Checks With NCR Technology
Angola is among the first countries putting in place an NCR Corp. technology that enables banks to print secure checks in-house. Planad, a financial information technology firm in the African country, is to employ NCR...
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March 2 Deadline for Africa Matching Grants
Members of the African diaspora still have until March 2 to apply for a program that will provide matching grants of up to $50,000 for new business ventures on the continent. Proposals...
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Charity Sends Books to Angola From Atlanta
Books For Africa on June 4 will send 22,000 books to Angola from its warehouse in metro Atlanta. The charity is partnering with Better World Books, an online bookstore that...
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Delta Postpones Angola Flight
Delta Air Lines Inc. has canceled the launch of a new flight from Atlanta to Luanda, Angola. The service to the oil-rich country on Africa's southwestern coast was slated to...
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Delta Reaches 2 Million Passenger Mark for Africa
Delta Air Lines Inc. announced on Dec. 8 that it has transported 2 million passengers on its Africa services including direct flights from the U.S. to seven African cities in...
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Delta Plans Flight From Atlanta to Senegal, Angola
Delta Air Lines Inc. in January will offer a flight from Atlanta to Dakar, Senegal and Luanda, Angola. The flight will operate three times a week, making a stop in...
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Atlantan Finds a Business Frontier in Angola
When Atlantan Randy Pires graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007, he took an engineering job in the modern-day equivalent of the Wild Wild West. The African nation...