2007 in Angola

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Events from the year 2007 in Angola

Events

June

• June 28: A TAAG-Angola Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in northern Angola resulting in the death of at least five passengers on the same day the European Union bans the airline from European airspace.^[1]

August

• August 21: The governments of Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are negotiating over a line demarcating each nation's respective rights to petroleum in the Atlantic Ocean. The DRC is expected to gain exploration rights to billions of untapped barrels worth of oil.^[2]

September

• September 21: Angolan police arrest Jomo Gbomo, the head of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a rebel organization in Nigeria.

Deaths

• August 2: Holden Roberto, 84, founder and leader of the FNLA (1962–1999), after long illness.

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