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The original report was published in The Independent on Friday, July 1, 2011
Telecoms & ICT | Africa | Angola
         

Modernisation arrives in the post

Major upgrades to Angola’s postal system are designed to expand service coverage nationwide by 2012
While having a modern and well-functioning telecommunications system is vital to a nation’s economic development, a country also has to have a post office that permits people and businesses to move correspondence that can’t be e-mailed efficiently within the national territory and abroad.

Angola’s postal system is in the middle of a modernisation drive that will renovate 163 post offices around the country. The goal is to have national coverage by 2012, providing multi-purpose post offices where citizens can benefit from services including training programmes and internet access.

ANGOLA PROJECT TEAM:
Regional Director Saturnino Izquierdo, Project Director Gemma Gutierrez,  Editorials Pablo Mazarrasa

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LOCATION:
Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Namibia and Democratic Republic of the Congo

AREA:
total: 1,246,700 sq km
country comparison to the world: 23
land: 1,246,700 sq km
water: 0 sq km

AREA - comparative:
slightly less than twice the size of Texas

CLIMATE:
semiarid in south and along coast to Luanda; north has cool, dry season (May to October) and hot, rainy season (November to April)

POPULATION:
13,338,541 (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 70

CAPITAL:
name: Luanda

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 9.6%
industry: 65.8%
services: 24.6% (2008 est.)

AGRICULTURE - products:
bananas, sugarcane, coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, manioc (tapioca), tobacco, vegetables, plantains; livestock; forest products; fish

INDUSTRIES:
petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; fish processing; food processing, brewing, tobacco products, sugar; textiles; ship repair

EXPORTS:
$50.59 billion (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 55
$40.83 billion (2009 est.)

EXPORTS - commodities:
crude oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, coffee, sisal, fish and fish products, timber, cotton

EXPORTS - partners:
China 37%, US 24.5%, India 8.7%, France 8.3% (2009)