C.D. Univerdidade Agostinho Neto | |
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Nickname | Os Universitários |
Leagues | BAI Basket |
Arena | (capacity: 1,500) |
Location | Luanda, Angola |
Team colors | white, maroon and black |
President |
The Clube Desportivo Universidade Agostinho Neto or simply CDUAN, formerly Centro Desportivo Universitário de Angola or CDUA, is a semi-professional basketball club from Luanda, Angola. On March 3, 2005, a decision was made by a General Assembly meeting that the club's name - Centro Desportivo Universitário de Angola (CDUA) - be changed to the current name. The club is attached and sponsored by the state-run Agostinho Neto University, with the university chancellor serving as the club's chairman. [1]
Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city in Angola, and the country's most populous and important city, primary port and major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative centre. It is also the capital city of Luanda Province and the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world.
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a west-coast country of south-central Africa. It is the seventh-largest country in Africa, bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and largest city of Angola is Luanda.
The Agostinho Neto University is a public university based in Luanda, the capital city of Angola.
.ao is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Angola. It is administered by the college of engineering of the University of Agostinho Neto.
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Lúcio Lara served as General Secretary of the MPLA during the Angolan War of Independence and Angolan Civil War. Lara, a founding member of the MPLA, led the first MPLA members into Luanda on November 8, 1974. He swore in Agostinho Neto as the first president of the country.
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Agostinho Neto Pioneer Organization is a pioneer movement in Angola. Founded as the Pioneers in 1975, the organization took the name of the nation's first president Agostinho Neto at its second conference in November 1979, following Neto's death. OPA is led in its day-to-day affairs by the MPLA Youth.
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The Agostinho Neto Airport was an airport located near the town of Ponta do Sol on the northern tip of the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde. The airport was named after Agostinho Neto, an Angolan politician who lived on the island during his exile. On 7 August 1999 TACV Flight 5002 from São Pedro Airport to Agostinho Neto Airport crashed, killing all 18 occupants. For safety reasons, the airport was closed in the 1990s. Since then, Santo Antão does not have an airport. There are plans to build a new airport near Ponte Sul, west of Porto Novo. Construction should start in 2020.
The Youth of MPLA is a major mass organization within the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour, along with the Organização da Mulher Angolana, União Nacional dos Trabalhadores Angolanos and the Organização de Pioneiros de Agostinho Neto.
Fractionism was a political movement in Angola during the 1970s.
Neto may refer to:
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