Gavin Hayman, campaigner with Global Witness, considers some of the lessons from the organisation's report on the exploitation of the Angolan civil war to loot state revenues from the oil industry. The missing money appears to be more than the entire international humanitarian relief effort and he argues that in countries such as Angola, transparency is necessary if international relief efforts are not to be endlessly undermined.

Responsibilities include setting up a new project location in Luanda and Menongue (Kuando Kubango); establishing co-operation with national authorities, church institutions and NGOs; responsibility for regular contacts with partners in Angola and head office Cologne; representing Malteser vis-à-vis national authorities, NGOs, donors, church and international institutions; planning and co-ordinating successful and timely implementation of all project activities; financial management: overall responsibility for project budgets.

The president of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, wants the Southern African Development Community to focus more on gender development, as his country takes over the SADC Presidency.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said last Friday it was "very concerned" over a decision by the Angolan government to close all reception areas of former UNITA rebels and their families by the end of the year.

Five thousand refugees from Meheba refugee camp in Solwezi have gone back to Angola following the signing of the peace accord in that country in September.

The Angolan government aims to move all former UNITA rebels and their families out of reception areas and into a new phase of resettlement by the end of the year, a senior official told IRIN.

An internal report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has found that nearly $1bn disappeared from Angolan Government finances last year. The sum is far greater than the value of humanitarian assistance sent to the country this year and the report adds that over the past five years a total of over $4bn are unaccounted for.

Lead IMC's activities in Angola, while assuring positive implementation, effective coordination, and appropriate support for IMC programs. Oversee project logistics, finance and administrative support and actively prioritize standards for monitoring and evaluation. Graduate degree in Public Health, Public Policy, or related field preferred.

Angola needs an extensive and urgent demining programme to kick-start development and reconstruction after 30 years of war, national demining coordinator Balbina Silva says.

The ruling MPLA party in Angola has slammed a report from Médecins Sans Frontières, a humanitarian non-governmental organisation. MPLA information secretary Noberto dos Santos deplored the attitude of the report and said its authors were "meddling in internal issues of the Angolan State". The report detailed how both the government and UNITA had used civilians as weapons of war.

Angolan refugees arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are staying in "very poor conditions" in the eastern town of Luau, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.

After several months of negotiations Angola's former rebel group UNITA was unified this week, paving the way for national reconciliation and the implementation of outstanding aspects of the 1994 Lusaka peace agreement.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a lead role in SC-UK's innovative programme in Angola. Angola is currently undergoing significant change as a result of the recent cease-fire and peace process, and as Deputy Programme Director, you would have a key role to play in developing and implementing SC-UK's response to the changing context. In Angola since 1989, SC-UK's Angola programme currently has an annual budget of approximately £3million and 250 staff.

Both the government and Unita carried out deliberate violations of international human rights law that constituted war crimes during the Angolan civil war, but the United Nations and the international community failed to intervene in the crisis. Since the end of the conflict the international community has shown themselves to be just as incapable of dealing with the suffering of civilians and understanding the urgent human need that exists in the country, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) which has released two reports showing how Angolan civilians were abused as a strategy of war.

A TV story and a briefing paper released by WWF underscores the controversy behind the European Union's policy to buy fishing rights from developing countries, such as Angola. According to the conservation organization, this allows the EU's heavily subsidised fleets to operate in, and profit from, other countries' waters, as they have already fished out Europe's own stocks.

As the peace process begins to take root in Angola, displaced communities have turned to indigenous forms of therapy as a way of dealing with the psychological scars left behind by nearly three decades of civil war.

GOAL has been working in Angola since 1993, responding to humanitarian needs arising from one of Africa's longest running conflicts. Since that time, GOAL's programmes have had a strong emphasis on health. GOAL has worked in Saurimo since late 1993. In 1993 / 94 GOAL implemented an emergency health programme (using GOAL employed staff) which subsequently developed from 1994 to 2000 into a joint emergency programme with the local Ministry of Health (using MoH staff). Activities under this programme were handed over the MoH and a national NGO in early 2001.

The UN World Food Programme has announced that the number of Angolans in urgent need of food aid has increased to 1.8 million, compared to 1.5 assisted in September. The increase is putting additional pressure on the already limited resources available to assist those in need.

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos opened a two-day summit of southern African leaders with a call to bolster regional peace efforts. "We have made regional efforts to end armed conflicts, but we still have much to do to achieve stability," Dos Santos said.

About 570,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have resettled or returned to their areas of origin in Angola over the past five months, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest situation report.