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- Government
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- Long-form name: People's Republic of Angola.
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- Type: Marxist people's republic.
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- Capital: Luanda.
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- Administrative divisions: 18 provinces (provincias, singular--
- provincia); Bengo, Benguela, Bie, Cabinda, Cuando Cubango,
- Cuanza Norte, Cuanza Sul, Cunene, Huambo, Huila, Luanda,
- Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul, Malanje, Moxico, Namibe, Uige, Zaire.
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- Independence: 11 November 1975 (from Portugal).
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- Constitution: 11 November 1975; revised 7 January 1978 and
- 11 August 1980.
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- Legal system: based on Portuguese civil law system and customary
- law, but being modified along socialist lines.
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- National holiday: Independence Day, 11 November (1975).
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- Executive branch: president, chairman of the Council of
- Ministers, Council of Ministers (cabinet).
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- Legislative branch: unicameral National People's Assembly.
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- Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Tribunal da Relacao).
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- Leaders: Chief of State and Head of Government--President
- Jose Eduardo dos SANTOS (since 21 September 1979).
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- Political parties and leaders: only party--Popular Movement
- for the Liberation of Angola-Labor Party (MPLA-Labor Party),
- Jose Eduardo dos Santos; National Union for the Total Independence
- of Angola (UNITA), lost to the MPLA with Cuban military
- support in immediate postindependence struggle, now carrying
- out insurgency.
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- Suffrage: universal adult at age NA.
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- Elections: none held to date.
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- Member of: ACP, AfDB, CCC, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), ICAO,
- IFAD, ILO, IMO, INTELSAT, ITU, NAM, OAU, SADCC, UN, UNESCO,
- UNICEF, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO.
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- Diplomatic representation: none.
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- Flag: two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black
- with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed
- star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the
- style of a hammer and sickle).
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