82-606: Jubilee House is the presidential palace in Accra that serves as a residence and office to the President of Ghana . Jubilee House is built on the site of a building that was constructed and used for administrative purposes by the British Gold Coast Government. The previous seat of government of Ghana was Osu Castle . It was named Golden Jubilee House by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 29 March 2018 to coincide with
164-673: A Marxist–Leninist one-party state . It embarked on an ambitious programme of nationalisation , and the domestic private sector was essentially abolished. Privately owned enterprises were nationalised and incorporated into a single umbrella of state-owned enterprises known as Unidades Economicas Estatais (UEE). Under the MPLA, Angola experienced a significant degree of modern industrialisation . However, corruption and graft also increased and public resources were either allocated inefficiently or simply embezzled by officials for personal enrichment. The ruling party survived an attempted coup d'état by
246-473: A camp in Damba , where 26% died. Under colonial law, black Angolans were forbidden from forming political parties or labour unions. The first nationalist movements did not take root until after World War II , spearheaded by a largely Westernised and Portuguese-speaking urban class, which included many mestiços . During the early 1960s they were joined by other associations stemming from ad hoc labour activism in
328-448: A crime, it became relatively common for the whole village to be enslaved. The resulting chaos and internal conflict from Garcia II's reign would lead into that of his son and successor, António I . He was killed in 1665 by Portuguese at the Battle of Mbwila 1665, together with a substantial proportion of the aristocracy. The colonists were expanding their power. War broke out more widely in
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574-700: A plethora of deadly diseases, intermingling of pre-colonial tribes in Angola had been rare. After settlement of the migrants, a number of political entities developed. The best-known of these was the Kingdom of Kongo , based in Angola. It extended northward to what are now the Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Republic of the Congo , and Gabon . It established trade routes with other city-states and civilisations up and down
656-465: A power base among a large expatriate community from related families, clans, and traditions. People on both sides of the border spoke mutually intelligible dialects and enjoyed shared ties to the historical Kingdom of Kongo. Though as foreigners skilled Angolans could not take advantage of Mobutu Sese Seko 's state employment programme, some found work as middlemen for the absentee owners of various lucrative private ventures. The migrants eventually formed
738-626: A precedent for the bitter factional strife which would later ignite the Angolan Civil War . Throughout the war of independence, the three rival nationalist movements were severely hampered by political and military factionalism, as well as their inability to unite guerrilla efforts against the Portuguese. Between 1961 and 1975 the MPLA, UNITA, and the FNLA competed for influence in the Angolan population and
820-607: A protracted anti-colonial struggle (1961–1974), Angola achieved independence in 1975 as a one-party Republic , but the country descended into a devastating civil war the same year, between the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba ; the insurgent National Union for the Total Independence of Angola , an originally Maoist and later anti-communist group supported by
902-596: A result of protective tariffs , leading to increased development, and a wave of new Portuguese immigrants. Between 1939 and 1943, Portuguese army operations against the Mucubal, who they accused of rebellion and cattle-thieving, resulted in hundreds of Mucubal killed. During the campaign, 3,529 were taken prisoner, 20% of whom were women and children, and imprisoned in concentration camps. Many died in captivity from undernourishment, violence and forced labor. Around 600 were sent to Sao Tome and Principe . Hundreds were also sent to
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#1732848427228984-567: A skirmish in the Moxico province . UNITA and the MPLA consented to the Luena Memorandum of Understanding in April; UNITA agreed to give up its armed wing. With the elections in 2008 and 2012 , an MPLA-ruled dominant-party system emerged, with UNITA and the FNLA as opposition parties. Angola has a serious humanitarian crisis; the result of the prolonged war, of the abundance of minefields , and
1066-607: A strong economy, based on the industries of copper , ivory , salt , hides , and, to a lesser extent, slaves . The transition from a feudal system of slavery to a capitalist one with Portugal would prove crucial to the history of the Kingdom of Kongo. As relations between Kongo and Portugal grew in the early 16th century, trade between the kingdoms also increased. Most of the trade was in palm cloth, copper, and ivory, but also increasing numbers of slaves. Kongo exported few slaves, and its slave market had remained internal. But, following
1148-418: A thousand Cuban soldiers in the country. They were kept supplied by a massive airbridge carried out with Soviet aircraft. The persistent buildup of Cuban and Soviet military aid allowed the MPLA to drive its opponents from Luanda and blunt an abortive intervention by Zairean and South African troops, which had deployed in a belated attempt to assist the FNLA and UNITA. The FNLA was largely annihilated after
1230-504: A variety of indigenous customs and traditions. The name Angola comes from the Portuguese colonial name Reino de Angola ('Kingdom of Angola'), which appeared as early as Paulo Dias de Novais 's 1571 charter. The toponym was derived by the Portuguese from the title ngola , held by the kings of Ndongo and Matamba . Ndongo in the highlands , between the Kwanza and Lucala rivers,
1312-487: A vassal of the Kingdom of Kongo. The people in all of these states spoke Kikongo as a common language. Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão reached the area in 1484. The previous year, the Portuguese had established relations with the Kingdom of Kongo , which stretched at the time from modern Gabon in the north to the Kwanza River in the south. The Portuguese established their primary early trading post at Soyo , which
1394-661: Is among the highest . Angola is a member of the United Nations , African Union , the Community of Portuguese Language Countries , and the Southern African Development Community . As of 2023 , the Angolan population is estimated at 37.2 million. Angolan culture reflects centuries of Portuguese influence, namely the predominance of the Portuguese language and of the Catholic Church , intermingled with
1476-698: Is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources . Africa [ edit ] UN member states Country Building Notes Image Algeria El Mouradia, Algiers Angola Presidential Palace, Luanda Benin Palais de la Marina , Cotonou Botswana State House, Gaborone Cape Verde Palácio Presidencial , Praia [REDACTED] Cameroon The Unity Palace , Yaoundé [REDACTED] Republic of
1558-445: Is around 53% of the total land area, equivalent to 66,607,380 hectares (ha) of forest in 2020, down from 79,262,780 hectares (ha) in 1990. In 2020, naturally regenerating forest covered 65,800,190 hectares (ha) and planted forest covered 807,200 hectares (ha). Of the naturally regenerating forest 40% was reported to be primary forest (consisting of native tree species with no clearly visible indications of human activity) and around 3% of
1640-465: Is now the northernmost city in Angola apart from the Cabinda exclave . Paulo Dias de Novais founded São Paulo de Loanda ( Luanda ) in 1575 with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers. Benguela was fortified in 1587 and became a township in 1617. An authoritarian state, the Kingdom of Kongo was highly centralised around its monarch and controlled neighbouring states as vassals . It had
1722-476: The Atlantic slave trade continued until after Brazil's independence in the 1820s. Despite Portugal's territorial claims in Angola, its control over much of the country's vast interior was minimal. In the 16th century Portugal gained control of the coast through a series of treaties and wars. Life for European colonists was difficult and progress was slow. John Iliffe notes that "Portuguese records of Angola from
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1886-524: The Maoist -oriented Communist Organisation of Angola (OCA) in 1977, which was suppressed after a series of bloody political purges left thousands of OCA supporters dead. The MPLA abandoned its former Marxist ideology at its third party congress in 1990, and declared social democracy to be its new platform. Angola subsequently became a member of the International Monetary Fund ; restrictions on
1968-537: The Republic of Angola , is a country on the west- central coast of Southern Africa . It is the second-largest Lusophone ( Portuguese-speaking ) country in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa . It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province,
2050-612: The United Arab Republic . The MPLA attempted to move its headquarters from Conakry to Léopoldville in October 1961, renewing efforts to create a common front with the FNLA, then known as the Union of Angolan Peoples (UPA) and its leader Holden Roberto . Roberto turned down the offer. When the MPLA first attempted to insert its own insurgents into Angola, the cadres were ambushed and annihilated by UPA partisans on Roberto's orders—setting
2132-568: The United States and South Africa ; the militant organization National Liberation Front of Angola , backed by Zaire ; and the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda seeking the independence of the Cabinda exclave, also backed by Zaire. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, Angola has emerged as a relatively stable constitutional republic , and its economy is among the fastest-growing in
2214-524: The 14th century. Portuguese explorers established relations with Kongo in 1483. To the south were the kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba , with the Ovimbundu kingdoms further south, and the Mbunda Kingdom in the east. The Portuguese began colonising the coast in the 16th century. Kongo fought three wars against the Portuguese, ending in the Portuguese conquest of Ndongo. The banning of the slave trade in
2296-529: The 1540s, expanding its borders to the south and east. The expansion of Kongo's population, coupled with Afonso's earlier religious reforms, allowed the ruler to centralize power in his capital and increase the power of the monarchy. He also established a royal monopoly on some trade. To govern the growing slave trade, Afonso and several Portuguese kings claimed a joint monopoly on the external slave trade. The slave trade increasingly became Kongo's primary, and arguably sole, economic sector . A major obstacle for
2378-702: The 16th century show that a great famine occurred on average every seventy years; accompanied by epidemic disease, it might kill one-third or one-half of the population, destroying the demographic growth of a generation and forcing colonists back into the river valleys". During the Portuguese Restoration War , the Dutch West India Company occupied the principal settlement of Luanda in 1641, using alliances with local peoples to carry out attacks against Portuguese holdings elsewhere. A fleet under Salvador de Sá retook Luanda in 1648; reconquest of
2460-550: The 19th century severely disrupted Kongo's undiversified economic system and European settlers gradually began to establish their presence in the interior of the region. The Portuguese colony that became Angola did not achieve its present borders until the early 20th century and experienced the strong resistance from the native groups such as the Cuamato, the Kwanyama , and the Mbunda . After
2542-490: The 50th year of Ghana's independence. It has since reverted to Jubilee House. It has previously been known as The Flagstaff House . The Flagstaff House, as it was previously known, was reconstructed and inaugurated by the government of John Agyekum Kufour with the name Golden Jubilee House in November 2008 when construction was about 70%–80% completed. In January 2009, the incoming government of President John Atta Mills moved
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2624-565: The Atlantic Ocean. Thus, at Soyo , at the mouth of the Congo River , the average annual temperature is about 26 °C, but it is under 16 °C at Huambo on the temperate central plateau. The coolest months are July and August (in the middle of the dry season), when frost may sometimes form at higher altitudes. The Angolan government is composed of three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial. The executive branch of
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2788-542: The Congo to the south. Angola has a favorable coastline for maritime trade, with four natural harbors: Luanda, Lobito, Moçâmedes, and Porto Alexandre. These natural indentations contrast with Africa's typical coastline of rocky cliffs and deep bays. Angola's capital, Luanda , lies on the Atlantic coast in the northwest of the country. Angola had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 8.35/10, ranking it 23rd globally out of 172 countries. In Angola forest cover
2870-698: The FNLA began massing large numbers of troops in northern Angola in an attempt to gain military superiority. Meanwhile, the MPLA began securing control of Luanda, a traditional Ambundu stronghold. Sporadic violence broke out in Luanda over the next few months after the FNLA attacked the MPLA's political headquarters in March 1975. The fighting intensified with street clashes in April and May, and UNITA became involved after over two hundred of its members were massacred by an MPLA contingent that June. An upswing in Soviet arms shipments to
2952-467: The FNLA with the intention of making a bid for political power upon their envisaged return to Angola. A largely Ovimbundu guerrilla initiative against the Portuguese in central Angola from 1966 was spearheaded by Jonas Savimbi and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). It remained handicapped by its geographic remoteness from friendly borders, the ethnic fragmentation of
3034-1833: The Gambia , Banjul Ghana Jubilee House , Accra [REDACTED] Guinea Presidential Palace, Conakry Guinea-Bissau Presidential Palace , Bissau [REDACTED] Kenya State House, Nairobi [REDACTED] Liberia Executive Mansion, Monrovia Madagascar Iavoloha Palace , Antananarivo [REDACTED] Ambohitsorohitra Palace , Antananarivo Ceremonial residence [REDACTED] Malawi Kamuzu Palace , Lilongwe Mali Presidential Palace , Bamako Mauritania Presidential Palace, Nouakchott Mauritius State House, Reduit Mozambique Palácio da Ponta Vermelha , Maputo Namibia State House of Namibia , Windhoek Niger Presidential Palace , Niamey Nigeria Nigerian Presidential Complex , Abuja Rwanda Urugwiro , Kigali São Tomé and Príncipe Presidential Palace , São Tomé [REDACTED] Senegal Presidential Palace , Dakar Seychelles State House, Victoria [REDACTED] Sierra Leone State House, Freetown [REDACTED] Somalia Villa Somalia , Mogadishu Somaliland Somaliland Presidential Palace , Hargeisa [REDACTED] South Africa Mahlamba Ndlopfu , Pretoria [[File:Libertas, since 1994 known as Mahlamba Ndlopfu, in 1934 by Gerard Moerdijk designed as official residence in Pretoria for
3116-401: The Kingdom of Kongo after the death of António I. Much of the stability and access to iron ore and charcoal necessary for gunsmiths to maintain the arms industry was disrupted. From then on, in this period almost every Kongolese citizen was in danger of being enslaved. Many Kongolese subjects were adroit in making guns, and they were enslaved to have their skills available to colonists in
3198-465: The Kingdom of Kongo was that slaves were the only commodity for which the European powers were willing to trade. Kongo lacked an effective international currency . Kongolese nobles could buy slaves with the national currency of nzimbu shells , which could be traded for slaves. These could be sold to gain international currency. As the slave trade was the only commodity in which Europeans were interested in
3280-497: The MPLA and its rivals accepted material assistance from the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China , the former harboured strong anti-imperialist views and was openly critical of the United States and its support for Portugal. This allowed it to win important ground on the diplomatic front, soliciting support from nonaligned governments in Morocco , Ghana , Guinea , Mali , and
3362-627: The MPLA influenced a decision by the Central Intelligence Agency to likewise provide substantial covert aid to the FNLA and UNITA. In August 1975, the MPLA requested direct assistance from the Soviet Union in the form of ground troops. The Soviets declined, offering to send advisers but no troops; however, Cuba was more forthcoming and in late September dispatched nearly five hundred combat personnel to Angola, along with sophisticated weaponry and supplies. By independence, there were over
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3444-562: The New World, where they worked as blacksmiths, ironworkers, and charcoal makers. The Portuguese established several other settlements, forts and trading posts along the Angolan coast, principally trading in Angolan slaves for plantations . Local slave dealers provided a large number of slaves for the Portuguese Empire , usually in exchange for manufactured goods from Europe. This part of
3526-754: The Ovimbundu, and the isolation of peasants on European plantations where they had little opportunity to mobilise. During the late 1950s, the rise of the Marxist–Leninist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the east and Dembos hills north of Luanda came to hold special significance. Formed as a coalition resistance movement by the Angolan Communist Party , the organisation's leadership remained predominantly Ambundu and courted public sector workers in Luanda . Although both
3608-643: The Portuguese depended on assistance from the British Royal Navy and what became known as the Blockade of Africa to enforce their ban on the slave trade. This coincided with a series of renewed military expeditions into the bush. By the mid-nineteenth century Portugal had established its dominion as far north as the Congo River and as far south as Mossâmedes . Until the late 1880s, Portugal entertained proposals to link Angola with its colony in Mozambique but
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3772-745: The Presidential Palace, Suva" . beautifulpacific.com. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014 . Retrieved 16 July 2013 . External links [ edit ] World's Most Stunning Presidential Palaces - slideshow by The Huffington Post Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Presidential_palace&oldid=1256480615 " Categories : Presidential residences Official residences Hidden categories: CS1 Somali-language sources (so) CS1 Spanish-language sources (es) Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Dynamic lists Angola Angola , officially
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3936-538: The absence of which would prevent them from having any influence with European powers such as Portugal and eventually the Dutch Republic . Kongolese kings needed this influence to garner support from European powers for quelling internal rebellions. The situation became increasingly complicated during the rule of Garcia II , who needed the assistance of the Dutch military to drive out the Portuguese from Luanda , in spite of
4018-639: The brokering of a ceasefire pending negotiations for Angolan independence. Encouraged by the Organisation of African Unity , Holden Roberto, Jonas Savimbi, and MPLA chairman Agostinho Neto met in Mombasa in early January 1975 and agreed to form a coalition government. This was ratified by the Alvor Agreement later that month, which called for general elections and set the country's independence date for 11 November 1975. All three factions, however, followed up on
4100-480: The ceasefire by taking advantage of the gradual Portuguese withdrawal to seize various strategic positions, acquire more arms, and enlarge their militant forces. The rapid influx of weapons from numerous external sources, especially the Soviet Union and the United States, as well as the escalation of tensions between the nationalist parties, fueled a new outbreak of hostilities. With tacit American and Zairean support
4182-458: The coast of southwestern and western Africa. Its traders even reached Great Zimbabwe and the Mutapa Empire , although the kingdom engaged in little or no trans-oceanic trade. To its south lay the Kingdom of Ndongo , from which the area of the later Portuguese colony was sometimes known as Dongo . Next to that was the Kingdom of Matamba . The lesser Kingdom of Kakongo to the north was later
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#17328484272284264-875: The continued political agitation in favour of the independence of the exclave of Cabinda (carried out in the context of the protracted Cabinda conflict by the FLEC ). While most of the internally displaced have now squatted around the capital, in musseques ( shanty towns ) the general situation for Angolans remains desperate. A drought in 2016 caused the worst food crisis in Southern Africa in 25 years, affecting 1.4 million people across seven of Angola's eighteen provinces. Food prices rose and acute malnutrition rates doubled, impacting over 95,000 children. José Eduardo dos Santos stepped down as President of Angola after 38 years in 2017, being peacefully succeeded by João Lourenço , Santos' chosen successor. Some members of
4346-420: The decisive Battle of Quifangondo , although UNITA managed to withdraw its civil officials and militia from Luanda and seek sanctuary in the southern provinces. From there, Savimbi continued to mount a determined insurgent campaign against the MPLA. Between 1975 and 1991, the MPLA implemented an economic and political system based on the principles of scientific socialism , incorporating central planning and
4428-423: The development of a successful sugar-growing colony after Portuguese settlement of São Tomé , Kongo became a major source of slaves for the island's traders and plantations. Correspondence by King Afonso documents the purchase and sale of slaves within the country. His accounts also detail which slaves captured in war were given or sold to Portuguese merchants. Afonso continued to expand the kingdom of Kongo into
4510-521: The dos Santos family were later linked to high levels of corruption. In July 2022, ex-president José Eduardo dos Santos died in Spain. In August 2022, the ruling party, MPLA, won another majority and President Lourenço won a second five-year term in the election . However, the election was the tightest in Angola's history. At 1,246,700 km (481,400 sq mi), Angola is the world's twenty-second largest country – comparable in size to Mali, or twice
4592-452: The fact that Portugal was Kongo's primary slave trading partner. By the early 17th century, the supply of foreign slaves captured by the Kongolese externally was waning. The government began to approve the enslavement of freeborn Kongolese citizens for relatively minor infractions, nearly any disobeying of the authoritarian system and the aristocracy. If several villagers were deemed guilty of
4674-587: The fighting between the Portuguese government and local forces, supported to varying degrees by the Portuguese Communist Party . The National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) recruited from Bakongo refugees in Zaire . Benefiting from particularly favourable political circumstances in Léopoldville , and especially from a common border with Zaire, Angolan political exiles were able to build up
4756-407: The forest area was found within protected areas. For the year 2015, 100% of the forest area was reported to be under public ownership . Like the rest of tropical Africa, Angola experiences distinct, alternating rainy and dry seasons. In the north, the rainy season may last for as long as seven months—usually from September to April, with perhaps a brief slackening in January or February. In
4838-548: The 💕 Official residence of a president A presidential palace is the official residence of the president in some countries. Some presidential palaces were once the official residences to monarchs in former monarchies that were preserved during those states' transition into republics . Some other presidential palaces were once the official residencies to governors in former colonies or subnational divisions that were preserved during their transition to independent states. List [ edit ] This
4920-597: The government in the Federal Palace of Switzerland . Ukraine Mariinskyi Palace , Kyiv [REDACTED] Oceania [ edit ] Country Building Notes Image Fiji Government House, Suva [REDACTED] See also [ edit ] Prime ministerial residences References [ edit ] ^ "Turkey's president moves into world's biggest palace costing £384 million" . Telegraph.co.uk . Retrieved 2017-07-13 . ^ "Palace (in Angola)" . Roctest Group. Archived from
5002-495: The government is composed of the President, the vice-presidents and the Council of Ministers. The legislative branch comprises a 220-seat unicameral legislature, the National Assembly of Angola , elected from multi-member province-wide and nationwide constituencies using party-list proportional representation . For decades, political power has been concentrated in the presidency. After 38 years of rule, in 2017 President dos Santos stepped down from MPLA leadership. The leader of
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#17328484272285084-587: The government of John Agyekum Kufour , who belonged to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), was criticized by the opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the 2008 elections. The NDC government when sworn into office on 7 January 2009 refused to utilize Flagstaff House, preferring Osu Castle as the seat of government. The house was temporarily used as offices for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 5°34′47.1″N 00°11′18.5″W / 5.579750°N 0.188472°W / 5.579750; -0.188472 Presidential palace From Misplaced Pages,
5166-774: The hotel - Tegucigalpa" . tripadvisor.com . Retrieved 15 July 2013 . ^ "Presidential Palace, Managua, Nicaragua - Tripomatic" . tripomatic.com . Retrieved 15 July 2013 . ^ "3-Day Cabinet Meeting Held in Kandahar" . TOLOnews . 24 March 2022 . Retrieved 20 April 2022 . ^ "The Tajik Presidential Palace in Dushanbe, Tajikistan" . photobucket.com . Retrieved 16 July 2013 . ^ "Upmarket houses along road- Karimov to feel safer" . www.uznews.net. 6 December 2012 . Retrieved 25 March 2013 . ^ "Qasr Al Watan" . Qasr Al Watan . Retrieved 2019-04-21 . ^ "Presidential Palace, Chisinau" . www.virtualtourist.com . Retrieved 16 July 2013 . ^ "Guards at
5248-482: The inroads from Luanda and Benguela were very limited. Hamstrung by a series of political upheavals in the early 1800s, Portugal was slow to mount a large scale annexation of Angolan territory. The slave trade was abolished in Angola in 1836, and in 1854 the colonial government freed all its existing slaves. Four years later, a more progressive administration appointed by Portugal abolished slavery altogether. However, these decrees remained largely unenforceable, and
5330-444: The international community. The Soviet Union and Cuba became especially sympathetic towards the MPLA and supplied that party with arms, ammunition, funding, and training. They also backed UNITA militants until it became clear that the latter was at irreconcilable odds with the MPLA. The collapse of Portugal's Estado Novo government following the 1974 Carnation Revolution suspended all Portuguese military activity in Africa and
5412-574: The market economy were also reduced in an attempt to draw foreign investment. By May 1991 it reached a peace agreement with UNITA, the Bicesse Accords , which scheduled new general elections for September 1992. When the MPLA secured a major electoral victory, UNITA objected to the results of both the presidential and legislative vote count and returned to war. Following the election, the Halloween massacre occurred from 30 October to 1 November, where MPLA forces killed thousands of UNITA supporters. On 22 February 2002, government troops killed Savimbi in
5494-410: The north, most of whom likely originated in what is today northwestern Nigeria and southern Niger . Bantu speakers introduced the cultivation of bananas and taro , as well as maintenance of large cattle herds, to Angola's central highlands and the Luanda plain. Due to a number of inhibiting geographic factors throughout the territory of Angola, namely harshly traversable land, hot/humid climate, and
5576-444: The office of the president back to Osu Castle and later changed the sign in front of the building back to its original name claiming that the previous government had not used a Legislative Instrument to effect the change as required by law. The Mills government was in turn criticized that the name Flagstaff House which was given to the building by the British Gold Coast government glorifies Ghana's Gold Coast past. The seat of government
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5740-420: The province of Cabinda , that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda . Angola has been inhabited since the Paleolithic Age . After the Bantu expansion reached the region, states were formed by the 13th century and organised into confederations. The Kingdom of Kongo ascended to achieve hegemony among the other kingdoms from
5822-464: The region during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Kongo economy was unable to diversify or later industrialise outside of sectors in which slavery was involved, such as the arms industry . The increased production and sale of guns within the kingdom was due to the salient issue of the slave trade, which had become an increasingly violent struggle. There was a constant need for slaves for the kings and queens to sell in exchange for foreign commodities,
5904-464: The rest of the territory was completed by 1650. New treaties with the Kongo were signed in 1649; others with Njinga 's Kingdom of Matamba and Ndongo followed in 1656. The conquest of Pungo Andongo in 1671 was the last major Portuguese expansion from Luanda, as attempts to invade Kongo in 1670 and Matamba in 1681 failed. Colonial outposts also expanded inward from Benguela, but until the late 19th century
5986-4724: The royal palace for Crown Prince Izzuddin [REDACTED] Mongolia Government Palace, Ulan Bator Also seat of government Myanmar Presidential Palace, Naypyidaw Presidential Residence and Office [REDACTED] Nepal Rastrapati Bhawan , Kathmandu [REDACTED] Pakistan Aiwan-e-Sadr , Islamabad [REDACTED] State of Palestine Mukataa [REDACTED] Philippines Malacañang Palace , Manila Official residence and workplace [REDACTED] Singapore Istana, Singapore [REDACTED] Sri Lanka President's House, Colombo President's Pavilion, Kandy [REDACTED] Syria Presidential Palace, Damascus Tishreen Palace , Damascus Taiwan Presidential Office Building, Taipei [REDACTED] Tajikistan Palace of Nations , Dushanbe [REDACTED] Turkey Presidential Compound (Turkey) [REDACTED] Turkmenistan Oguzkhan Palace , Ashgabat Uzbekistan Ok Saroy Presidential Palace , Tashkent Former residence [REDACTED] Durmen Former residence Kuksaroy Presidential Palace , Tashkent Current residence United Arab Emirates Qasr Al Watan, Abu Dhabi Seat of government Vietnam Presidential Palace, Hanoi [REDACTED] Yemen Presidential Palace, Sanaa Europe [ edit ] Country Building Notes Image Albania Presidential Palace of Tirana [REDACTED] Austria Hofburg Palace , Vienna [REDACTED] Belarus Presidential Palace, Minsk Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Building , Sarajevo [REDACTED] Bulgaria Presidential Palace, Sofia [REDACTED] Croatia Presidential Palace, Zagreb [REDACTED] Czech Republic Prague Castle , Prague Main residence [REDACTED] The Lány Chateau , Lány Secondary residence [REDACTED] Estonia Presidential Palace , Tallinn [REDACTED] Finland Presidential Palace, Helsinki [REDACTED] France Élysée Palace , Paris [REDACTED] Germany Bellevue Palace , Berlin Primary residence [REDACTED] Villa Hammerschmidt , Bonn Secondary residence [REDACTED] Georgia Orbeliani Presidential Palace, Tbilisi [REDACTED] Greece Presidential Mansion, Athens [REDACTED] Hungary Sándor Palace, Budapest [REDACTED] Iceland Bessastaðir , Álftanes [REDACTED] Republic of Ireland Áras an Uachtaráin , Dublin [REDACTED] Italy Quirinal Palace , Rome [REDACTED] Latvia Riga Castle , Riga [REDACTED] Lithuania Presidential Palace, Vilnius [REDACTED] North Macedonia Villa Vodno , Skopje Malta San Anton Palace , Attard Official residence [REDACTED] Verdala Palace , Siġġiewi Summer residence [REDACTED] Moldova Presidential Palace, Chișinău [REDACTED] Montenegro Blue Palace , Cetinje [REDACTED] Poland Presidential Palace, Warsaw Official workplace [REDACTED] Belweder , Warsaw Official residence [REDACTED] Portugal Belém Palace , Lisbon [REDACTED] Romania Cotroceni Palace , Bucharest [REDACTED] Russia Grand Kremlin Palace , Moscow Ceremonial residence [REDACTED] Kremlin Senate , Moscow Working residence [REDACTED] Serbia Novi Dvor , Belgrade [REDACTED] Slovakia Grassalkovich Palace , Bratislava Official workplace [REDACTED] Hohenlohe Hunting Lodge Recreational residence [REDACTED] Slovenia Presidential Palace , Ljubljana Also seat of government [REDACTED] Switzerland No official presidential residence. Seat of
6068-456: The rural workforce. Portugal's refusal to address increasing Angolan demands for self-determination provoked an armed conflict, which erupted in 1961 with the Baixa de Cassanje revolt and gradually evolved into a protracted war of independence that persisted for the next twelve years. Throughout the conflict, three militant nationalist movements with their own partisan guerrilla wings emerged from
6150-546: The size of France or of Texas. It lies mostly between latitudes 4° and 18°S , and longitudes 12° and 24°E . Angola borders Namibia to the south, Zambia to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north-east and the South Atlantic Ocean to the west. The coastal exclave of Cabinda in the north has borders with the Republic of the Congo to the north and with the Democratic Republic of
6232-408: The south, the rainy season begins later, in November, and lasts until about February. The dry season ( cacimbo ) is often characterized by a heavy morning mist. In general, precipitation is higher in the north, but at any latitude it is greater in the interior than along the coast and increases with altitude. Temperatures fall with distance from the equator and with altitude and tend to rise closer to
6314-1895: The state of the Union of South Africa . - panoramio.jpg|150px]] King's House, Durban Genadendal Residence , Cape Town South Sudan Presidential Palace , Juba Sudan Presidential Palace , Khartoum [REDACTED] Tanzania Ikulu , Dar es Salaam [REDACTED] Togo Palace of the Governors , Lomé Tunisia Carthage Palace , Tunis [REDACTED] Uganda State House, Kampala State House, Entebbe Zambia State House, Lusaka Zimbabwe State House, Harare , State House, Bulawayo current residence Zimbabwe House, Harare Blue Roof , Harare former residence Americas [ edit ] Country Building Notes Image Argentina Casa Rosada , Buenos Aires Government office [REDACTED] Quinta de Olivos , Buenos Aires Province Official residence Barbados State House , Bridgetown Official residence [REDACTED] Bolivia Casa Grande del Pueblo , La Paz [REDACTED] Brazil Palácio da Alvorada , Brasilia Official residence [REDACTED] Palácio do Planalto , Brasilia Official workplace [REDACTED] Chile La Moneda Palace , Santiago de Chile Official office [REDACTED] Palacio Presidencial de Cerro Castillo , Viña del Mar Summer residence [REDACTED] Colombia Casa de Nariño , Bogotá Official residence [REDACTED] Costa Rica Casa Presidencial, San José [REDACTED] Cuba Presidential Palace , Havana Has been
6396-508: The winning party at the parliamentary elections in August 2017 would become the next president of Angola. The MPLA selected the former Defense Minister João Lourenço as Santos' chosen successor. In what has been described as a political purge to cement his power and reduce the influence of the Dos Santos family, Lourenço subsequently sacked the chief of the national police, Ambrósio de Lemos, and
6478-462: The world, with China , the European Union , and the United States being the country's largest investment and trade partners. However, the economic growth is highly uneven, with most of the nation's wealth concentrated in a disproportionately small part of the population as most Angolans have a low standard of living ; life expectancy is among the lowest in the world , while infant mortality
6560-469: Was blocked by British and Belgian opposition. In this period, the Portuguese came up against different forms of armed resistance from various peoples in Angola. The Berlin Conference in 1884–1885 set the colony's borders, delineating the boundaries of Portuguese claims in Angola, although many details were unresolved until the 1920s. Trade between Portugal and its African territories rapidly increased as
6642-525: Was moved back to Flagstaff House in January 2013 by John Dramani Mahama . The original budget for the reconstruction of $ 30m was a grant from the Indian government . However, BBC journalist David Amanor reported the construction may have cost as much as $ 45–50m. Building of the palace was overseen by an Indian contractor who used Ghanaian sub-contractors. The re-construction of the presidential palace and building by
6724-432: Was nominally a possession of the Kingdom of Kongo . But in the 16th century it was seeking greater independence. Modern Angola was populated predominantly by nomadic Khoi and San peoples prior to the first Bantu migrations . The Khoi and San peoples were hunter-gatherers , rather than practicing pastoralism or cultivation of crops. In the first millennium BC, they were displaced by Bantu peoples arriving from
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