2007 in Angola

Events from the year 2007 in Angola

Incumbents [ edit ]

June 28: A TAAG-Angola Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in northern Angola resulting in the death of at least five passengers on the same day the European Union bans the airline from European airspace . ^[4]

August 21: The governments of Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are negotiating over a line demarcating each nation's respective rights to petroleum in the Atlantic Ocean . The DRC is expected to gain exploration rights to billions of untapped barrels worth of oil. ^[5]

September 21: Angolan police arrest Jomo Gbomo , the head of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta , a rebel organization in Nigeria .

August 2: Holden Roberto , 84, founder and leader of the FNLA (1962?1999), after long illness.

^ James, W. Martin (1 March 2018). "Historical Dictionary of Angola" . Rowman & Littlefield – via Google Books.
^ James, W. Martin (2018). Historical Dictionary of Angola . Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538111239 .
^ "Virtudes e Fraquezas do Parlamento cessante" . ANGONOTICIAS .
^ "Five killed, 66 hurt in Angolan airline crash-landing" . News Limited. Archived from the original on December 11, 2008 . Retrieved 2008-03-02 .
^ "DRC, Angola to demarcate petroleum exploration zone" . People's Daily . Retrieved 2008-03-02 .

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Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Reunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)