Examples of using Cuango in English and their translations into Russian
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Other mining equipment came from Luzamba in the Cuango Valley.
Mining in the Cuango Valley: the Cuango Mining Corporation and the DeDecker brothers.
When the third recession started in late 1997,UNITA withdrew from the Cuango Valley mines.
This problem has been quite acute in Cuango(Lunda Norte Province) and Luau Moxico Province.
Glasol also bought diamonds from UNITA's miners in buying offices across the Cuango.
It still controls a region of the Cuango above Luremo, which has lower quality diamonds.
Much of the actual mining was done by human labour at three major sites along the Cuango river.
These included Cuango, Mavinga and Negage, three of the five strategically important areas previously under UNITA control.
A more technical mining operation run by the Cuango Mining Corporation until 1997 was Project Muangai.
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.
The localities covered included Cuango and Negage, two of the five strategically important areas previously under UNITA control.
Teams of divers brought infrom South Africa and Namibia systematically stripped the Cuango river bed of diamonds from diving platforms on the river.
UNITA launched attacks on the Cuango Valley and other mines, although the important Catoca kimberlite is much less vulnerable and was not attacked.
UNITA forces were found in the Za-Muteba area at the base of the Cuango River-- considered to be a long-term mining site for UNITA.
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.
UNITA mined in Tembo-Aluma on the Cuango River border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and areas around the upper Cuango River.
In Lunda Norte andLunda Sul provinces, the Government maintained firm control over the diamond-producing areas of Cafunfo and Cuango and several other strategically important towns.
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 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.
Surowicz had previously been head diamond buyer for the Cuango Mining Corporation in the Luzamba region during the period of UNITA occupation and was licensed by UNITA.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is little doubt that the delay in extension of State administration to major strategic locations such as Andulo,Bailundo, Cuango, Mavinga and Negage is a result of political considerations.
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.
United Nations data on globally reported diamond imports from African non-producers shows significant falls from 1998, however, which may be attributable both to the effects of the embargo andto a significant reduction in the quantity of diamonds being mined by UNITA after it withdrew from the Luzamba region of the Cuango Valley at the end of 1997.
While State administration has been extended to three strategically important areas- Cuango, Mavinga and Negage- it still remains to be extended to UNITA strongholds in Andulo and Bailundo.
Despite persistent tensions,in particular in Cuango and Lucapa(Lunda Norte Province), as well as in Kuito, Huila and Malange provinces, which are the result of continuing acts of banditry, and troop movements by both parties, the military and security situation in the country remained relatively calm.