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Angola is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean. The exclave province Cabinda has a border with Republic of the Congo. A former Portuguese colony, it has considerable natural resources, among which oil and diamonds are the most significant. The country is nominally a democracy and is formally named the Republic of Angola (Portuguese: República de Angola, pronounced IPA: [ʁɛ'publikɐ dɨ ɐ̃'gɔlɐ]).

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Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum from Angola, gestures as he speaks to journalists prior to the start of the meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their new headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.

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Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum from Angola, gestures as he speaks to journalists prior to the start of the meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their new headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Sporting Braga's Jose 'Mossoro' Costa from Brazil challenges Rio Ave's goalkeeper Carlos Fernandes, right, from Angola in a Portuguese League soccer match at Braga's Municipal Stadium in Braga, Portugal, Saturday, March 13, 2010. Braga won 1- 0.

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Sporting Braga's Jose 'Mossoro' Costa from Brazil challenges Rio Ave's goalkeeper Carlos Fernandes, right, from Angola in a Portuguese League soccer match at Braga's Municipal Stadium in Braga, Portugal, Saturday, March 13, 2010. Braga won 1- 0.

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Sporting Braga's Jose 'Mossoro' Costa from Brazil challenges Rio Ave's goalkeeper Carlos Fernandes, left, from Angola in a Portuguese League soccer match at Braga's Municipal Stadium in Braga, Portugal, Saturday, March 13, 2010.

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Sporting Braga's Jose 'Mossoro' Costa from Brazil challenges Rio Ave's goalkeeper Carlos Fernandes, left, from Angola in a Portuguese League soccer match at Braga's Municipal Stadium in Braga, Portugal, Saturday, March 13, 2010.

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In this photo provided by Tom Davis shows the results of an IED that struck his humvee in 2006. Davis never saw the bomb that exploded underneath the Humvee he was riding in just a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006. He was only a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006 when a bomb exploded underneath the Humvee he was riding in, blasting the vehicle two stories into the air and leaving the Angola man with a broken back and a leg injured beyond repair.

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In this photo provided by Tom Davis shows the results of an IED that struck his humvee in 2006. Davis never saw the bomb that exploded underneath the Humvee he was riding in just a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006. He was only a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006 when a bomb exploded underneath the Humvee he was riding in, blasting the vehicle two stories into the air and leaving the Angola man with a broken back and a leg injured beyond repair.

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Tom Davis holds his daughter Lylli with two of his other children Isaiah, far left, and Elli looking on in the kitchen of the Davis home Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, in Fremont, Ind. He was only a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006 when a bomb exploded underneath the Humvee he was riding in, blasting the vehicle two stories into the air and leaving the Angola man with a broken back and a leg injured beyond repair.

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Tom Davis holds his daughter Lylli with two of his other children Isaiah, far left, and Elli looking on in the kitchen of the Davis home Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, in Fremont, Ind. He was only a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006 when a bomb exploded underneath the Humvee he was riding in, blasting the vehicle two stories into the air and leaving the Angola man with a broken back and a leg injured beyond repair.

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Tom Davis sits at the kitchen table with his daughter Lylli Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, in Fremont, Ind. He was only a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006 when a bomb exploded underneath the Humvee he was riding in, blasting the vehicle two stories into the air and leaving the Angola man with a broken back and a leg injured beyond repair.

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Tom Davis sits at the kitchen table with his daughter Lylli Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, in Fremont, Ind. He was only a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006 when a bomb exploded underneath the Humvee he was riding in, blasting the vehicle two stories into the air and leaving the Angola man with a broken back and a leg injured beyond repair.

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Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum from Angola, gestures as he speaks to journalists prior to the start of the meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their new headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.

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Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum from Angola, gestures as he speaks to journalists prior to the start of the meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their new headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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Togo's national football team goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale (L), injured in a rebel attack before the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, rests with friends at Lorient hospital on March 14, 2010, western France, after two months of hospitalization in South Africa. Obilale, 25, who plays for the French Pontivy team, was shot in the back and abdomen during the bus attack of the Togolese football team on January 8, 2010 by separatist rebels in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

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