Landmines

To find out about Angola's Landmine Impact Survey and the organisations involved, visit the Survey Action Center website.

To find out how much land has been cleared - and lots more information on landmines - read the latest Landmine Monitor Report and visit the U.N. Mine Action Service website.

Oil and diamonds

If you want to research Angola's oil dealings, a good place to start is Angola's state oil company Sonangol. There's a useful interactive map showing where different oil companies are working. To find it, click on "concessionary" on the drop-down menu under "Areas of activity". Elsewhere there is lots of information about the company.

For diamonds, a good starting point is Angola's state mining company Endiama, where you can find plenty of information about the corporation and the history of mining in Angola.

A really good detailed source of information about the financial side of both the oil and diamond industries is this 2005 IMF Angola report.

The International Monetary Fund produces regular reviews of the economy.

There is plenty of good information on the web about corruption in both industries. To track the highs and lows of Angola's world corruption rating, check out Transparency International's Corruption Index.

British-based campaigners with Global Witness have focused much of their work on targeting corruption in Angola.

Human Rights Watch produced an excellent report in 2004 on the links between corruption and human rights abuses, entitled Some Transparency, No Accountability: The Use of Oil Revenue in Angola and Its Impact on Human Rights.

A good academic report on the history of corruption in Angola is The Main Institution in the Country Is Corruption written in 2005 by Professor John McMillan of Stanford University.

Finally, a 2006 World Bank report on Angola's finances, Angola: Angola - Oil, broad-based growth, and equity, is a bit heavy-going but gives a good analysis of the problems involved.

Displaced people and returnees

The best sources of information on this subject are the usual suspects: the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR.

Health and education

In 2005, the World Food Programme carried out a detailed survey of life in Angola's central highlands, one of the most deprived areas in Africa. The report makes for some fairly grim reading, but gives plenty of detailed information about nutrition, education, health, housing, displacement, income and so on.

For general information about children's health and education, see the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) Angola page. And for an overview of the country's health, visit the U.N. World Health Organisation's website.

Maps

You can find maps of Angola in the United Nations Cartographic Section and on AlertNet.