Angola

1. A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.

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   Social assistance payments are being digitized for the first time under Angola’s first poverty-targeted cash transfer project, Kwenda, which started in May 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments initiative, the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice, or FCI, and the Social Protection and Jobs engagements in Angola have come together to advance the agenda on payments digitization.

   2022 March 15, “Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments: How is Angola Reaching the Poor and Vulnerable During COVID-19?”, in World Bank, United States, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2025

   1. historicalA former colony of Portugal, Portuguese Angola, also known as Portuguese West Africa and officially the State of West Africa, from 1575 to 1975.
   2. The People's Republic of Angola, from 1975 to 1992.
2. The Louisiana State Penitentiary.

   “Who wanna get stuck in Angola with Lana Lee? She was bad enough on the outside. Shit.”

   1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN

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   In 2021, a judge found that Angola was providing inadequate medical care to its incarcerated population.

   2025 September 3, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devon M. Sayers, “Trump administration to open new ICE facility at notorious Louisiana prison”, in CNN

3. An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
4. A city, the county seat of Steuben County, Indiana, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas, United States.
6. A village in the town of Evans, Erie County, New York, United States.

plural Angolas

1. Synonym of angora (“type of cat”).

   Synonyms: angora