Examples of using Cuango in English and their translations into Arabic
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Other mining equipment came from Luzamba in the Cuango Valley.
The Cuango was the high point of UNITA ' s mining operations, in revenue terms.
This problem has been quite acute in Cuango(Lunda Norte Province) and Luau(Moxico Province).
It is noticeable that UNITA has targeted at least three of the highest value areas in Angola for mining,mines in Cuango, Malange and Mavinga.
Mining in the Cuango Valley: the Cuango Mining Corporation and the DeDecker brothers.
Teams of divers broughtin from South Africa and Namibia systematically stripped the Cuango river bed of diamonds from diving platforms on the river.
The localities covered included Cuango and Negage, two of the five strategically important areas previously under UNITA control.
UNITA itself is said to have bought little mining equipment beyond basic tools for digging pits,although it had access to equipment removed from the Cuango Valley.
UNITA took a diamond stockpile from the Cuango, thought to be valued at $250 million, but, given the size of the workforce, this could well have been larger.
UNITA maximized its income, as reported by the Panel of Experts, by taxing the movement of all money and diamonds by dealers,as well as all other goods brought into the Cuango.
Before the imposition of sanctions, was the Cuango Mining Corporation created by David Zollmann, a junior partner in the Antwerp firm of Glasol.
This low number is surprising, given the disposition of the mines andthe number of attacks carried out in Lunda Norte, and around the Cuango region in particular, until the end of the war.
These included Cuango, Mavinga and Negage, three of the five strategically important areas previously under UNITA control.
Although UNITA has been mining diamonds since the 1980s,it was only following occupation of the Cuango Valley in November 1992 that the movement began producing diamonds in very large quantities.
It should be noted that the Cuango Valley mining operations ceased six to nine months before the adoption of Security Council resolution 1173(1998), which imposed sanctions on UNITA ' s diamond trading.
While State administration hasbeen extended to three strategically important areas- Cuango, Mavinga and Negage- it still remains to be extended to UNITA strongholds in Andulo and Bailundo.
Of UNITA ' s three major wars, two were launched at a time of major recession in the diamond industry, in 1980 and 1992. When the third recession started in late 1997,UNITA withdrew from the Cuango Valley mines.
UNITA launched attacks on the Cuango Valley and other mines, although the important Catoca kimberlite is much less vulnerable and was not attacked.
There is little doubt that the delay in extension of State administration tomajor strategic locations such as Andulo, Bailundo, Cuango, Mavinga and Negage is a result of political considerations.
UNITA mined in Tembo-Aluma on the Cuango River border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and areas around the upper Cuango River.
Both the Cuango Mining Corporation and the De Decker brothers pulled out of Luzamba in October 1997 when the United Nations gained access, although UNITA mining operations around Luremo, to the north, continued until August 1998.
Ashton Mining of Australia, a partner in the consortium now mining the Cuango, estimated that diamonds valued at $2 billion were removed from the Cuango during this period.
This study centres on UNITA control of the Cuango River border between Bandundu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malange/ Uige Provinces in Angola, and of the right bank of the Lui River, a tributary of the Cuango, where UNITA still remained as of February 2002.
The northern region, including Tembo-Aluma on the Cuango River border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is discussed in the case study of UNITA diamond sales in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; there may also be small mining operations east of the River Lui.
UNITA had large scale industrial mines in the Cuango Valley for the five years that it controlled the valley, in what was effectively the world ' s largest diamond smuggling operation, given that UNITA ' s" mining rights" were based on force majeure and later negotiations to legitimize these rights failed.