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  • UIGE, Angola Dec 16 Sapa-Reuter Angola's ceasefire is hanging thread in te northern town of Uige where government troops are encamped just a grenade's throw away from their UNITA rebel foes.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The United Nations came to Negage and government-held Uige a few days ago - an important step toward reopening two cities so closely knit they were usually referred to as Uige-Negage despite the 20 kilometers (12 miles) that separate them.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • A rebel statement released in Lisbon, Portugal, urged the rapid deployment of U.N. military observers to hot spots such as Uige and the central highlands around Huambo, the rebel base seized in a massive government assault last week.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • A rebel statement released in Lisbon, Portugal, urged the rapid deployment of U.N. military observers to hot spots such as Uige and Huambo.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • UNITA does allow flights into cities it holds, such as Uige, 250 kilometers (155 miles) northeast of Luanda.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Whilst in the country he will dedicate two schools, attend a Eucharist in a football stadium in Uige, and visit a shrine in memory of clergy and others killed during the struggle for independence from Portugal and in the subsequent civil war.

    Visit to South Africa and Angola 2007

  • Since then, Silva said, the phenomenon has followed poor migrants from the northern Angolan provinces of Uige and Zaire to the slums of the fast-growing capital, Luanda.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Christopher 2007

  • Uige, about 160 kilometers to the south, is another story.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Christopher 2007

  • Whilst in the country he will dedicate two schools, attend a Eucharist in a football stadium in Uige, and visit a shrine in memory of clergy and others killed during the struggle for independence from Portugal and in the subsequent civil war.

    Visit to South Africa and Angola 2007

  • Uige was in 2005 the epicentre of an epidemic of Marburg haemorrhagic fever, a virus similar to the dreadful Ebola, that killed close to 230 people, including some 20 medical workers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

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