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José Miguel Ribeiro’s feature debut “Nayola,” one of two Portuguese full-length animation pics screening at Annecy Animation Film Festival, portrays the fate of a grandmother, a mother and her ...

Women’s education in Angola has improved meaningfully in recent decades, but gender disparities still persist, particularly in higher education and literacy, which should be addressed. Primary school ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Louisiana Illuminator) - Anticipating a housing crunch, Louisiana’s prison system last week moved 18 incarcerated women into a building at the all-male state penitentiary at Angola.

Clad in sky-blue kevlar body armor with a thick protective visor over her face, 22-year-old Catarina Sanhala inches slowly forward, swinging her handheld metal detector slowly back and forth as she ...

Angola's civil war left 1,100 active minefields. The attitude had been that clearing mines is man's work until a nonprofit stepped in. Now nearly... Clad in sky-blue kevlar body armor with a thick ...