Miners Find Giant Pink Diamond in Angola - The Largest in 300 Years
Miners in Angola have uncovered a giant pink diamond weighing 170-carats, which is the largest rose colored stone to be found in 300 years.
Miners in Angola have uncovered a giant pink diamond weighing 170-carats, which is the largest rose colored stone to be found in 300 years.
Forget strutting the runway with big hair and cheesy smiles. The Miss Landmine Angola competition leaves behind the superficiality and aims for promoting pride and beauty, despite imperfections.
The restoration of peace in 2002 has turned oil-rich Angola into one of the world's fastest growing economies and opened a new frontier for surfers, mostly from Luanda, who flock to the warm blue waters of Cabo Ledo to ride waves. Officials expect the country's warm climate, vast sandy beaches along with the recently restored peace to begin attracting visitors from abroad.
Thousands of kilometres of roads have been rebuilt after a civil war that ended in 2002, enabling farmers from banana plantations in the south to coffee producers in the north to bring their products to market on time and at affordable prices.
Cheetahs have returned to their former habitat, a national park in Angola, after a three-decade civil war devastated the area, according to a conservation group based in Namibia.
A brightly painted old shipping container with solar panels on its roof and high-specification filtration devices will soon be providing nearly 20,000 liters a day of clean, drinkable water to the area's 500 residents who currently rely on the dirty nearby river. If the pilot is successful, manufacturing will begin locally to roll out across the region.
The number of girls enrolling in primary school has soared across Africa in the last decade, according to a report released on Monday. With primary education now free in all but five African countries, there has been a boom in the number of children attending school, with Ethiopia and Angola showing the most dramatic improvements -- a 42 percent and 43 percent increase respectively from 2000 to 2011.
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