Sources: Angola
Every source cited on this case’s published pages, with where it is used. Organisation and government sources are labelled as perspectives.
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Reference work · Independent publication
Alvor Agreement (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the Alvor Agreement's collapse by mid-1975 into a three-way civil war and the rival 11 November 1975 independence proclamations by the MPLA (Luanda), FNLA (Ambriz/Carmona/Uíge) and UNITA (Huambo/Nova Lisboa).
Cited on: Angola, History: Angola · Source record
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Reference work · Independent publication
Angolan Civil War (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the 1975-2002 civil war between the MPLA, FNLA and UNITA, citing published estimates of 500,000 to over 1,000,000 deaths and about 4 million people displaced.
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Reference work · Independent publication
Angolan War of Independence (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the 1961-1974 war of independence, including one published tally of roughly 9,000 Portuguese and 30,000 insurgent deaths, and the disputed casualty figures for the 1961 Baixa de Cassange bombing (ranging from about 100 to claims of up to 20,000).
Cited on: Angola, History: Angola · Source record
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Reference work · Independent publication
Angola–United States relations (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the United States' veto of Angola's UN membership application at the 23 June 1976 Security Council meeting, motivated by the presence of Cuban troops in Angola, and its decision to abstain rather than veto when the application was reconsidered in November 1976.
Cited on: Angola, History: Angola · Source record
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Reference work · Scholarly work
Shillington, Kevin, Encyclopedia of African History (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005)
Scholarly reference encyclopedia giving the Alvor Agreement and the 11 November 1975 date of Angolan independence; consulted via its citation rather than the book itself, since the book text was not directly available to this research pass.
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Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation
United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly resolution 31/44: Admission of the People's Republic of Angola to membership in the United Nations (United Nations, 1 December 1976) link
Records the decision to admit the People's Republic of Angola, taken at the 84th plenary meeting on 1 December 1976.
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Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation
United Nations Security Council, Security Council resolution 397 (1976) and related decisions (United Nations, 22 November 1976) link
Recommends Angola's admission to UN membership, adopted 22 November 1976; the same compiled document records that the Council had failed to recommend Angola for membership at an earlier meeting on 23 June 1976, before reconsidering the application in November.
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