Editing Foreign relations of Angola (section)

=== Africa ===
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|{{flag|Cape Verde}}||30 October 1977<ref name=":02"/>||See [[Angola–Cape Verde relations]]

Cape Verde signed a friendship accord with Angola in December 1975, shortly after Angola gained its independence. Cape Verde and [[Guinea-Bissau]] served as stop-over points for [[Cuban troops]] on their way to Angola to fight [[UNITA]] rebels and South African troops. Prime Minister [[Pedro Pires]] sent [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People|FARP]] soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of [[Angolan President]] [[José Eduardo dos Santos]].<ref name="b">{{cite book|last=Lobban|first=Richard|year=1995|title=Cape Verde:Crioulo Colony to Independent Nation|url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00lobb_0|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00lobb_0/page/111 111]–112|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810829183}}</ref>
* Angola has an embassy in [[Praia]].
* Cape Verde has an embassy in Luanda and a consulate in [[Benguela]].
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|{{flag|Democratic Republic of Congo}}||17 October 1978<ref name=":02"/>||

Many thousands of Angolans fled the country after the civil war. More than 20,000 people were forced to leave the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally. Angola sent a delegation to DR Congo's capital [[Kinshasa]] and succeeded in stopping government-forced expulsions which had become a "tit-for-tat"<ref name="Bearak 2009" /> immigration dispute. "Congo and Angola have agreed to suspend expulsions from both sides of the border," said Lambert Mende, DR Congo information minister, in October 2009.<ref>{{cite news|title=Congo and Angola 'end expulsions' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8304282.stm|date=13 October 2009|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2009-10-13 | location=London}}</ref> "We never challenged the expulsions themselves; we challenged the way they were being conducted – all the beating of people and looting their goods, even sometimes their clothes," Mende said.<ref name="Bearak 2009">{{cite news|last=Bearak |first= Barry|title=Congo and Angola Agree to End Expulsions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/world/africa/14angola.html|date=13 October 2009|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2009-10-13}}</ref>
* Angola has an embassy in [[Kinshasa]].
* DR Congo has an embassy in Luanda.
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|{{flag|Kenya}}||<!--Date started-->||See [[Angola–Kenya relations]]
* Angola has an embassy in [[Nairobi]].
* Kenya has an embassy in Luanda.
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|{{flag|Mozambique}}||5 July 1975<ref name=":02"/>||See [[Angola–Mozambique relations]]
* Angola has an embassy in [[Maputo]].
* Mozambique has an embassy in Luanda.
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|{{flag|Namibia}}||18 September 1990<ref name=":02"/>||See [[Angola–Namibia relations]]

Namibia borders Angola to the south. In 1999, Namibia signed a mutual defense pact with its northern neighbor [[Angola]].<ref name="Situation Report">{{cite web
|first=Vincent
|last=William
|url=http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/publ/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RSDCOI&id=3ae6a6cb8&page=publ
|title=Namibia: Situation Report
|publisher=United Nations High Commission on Refugees
|access-date=2006-08-26
}}</ref>
This affected the [[Angolan Civil War]] that had been ongoing since Angola's independence in 1975. Namibia's ruling party [[SWAPO]] sought to support the ruling party [[MPLA]] in Angola against the rebel movement [[UNITA]], whose stronghold is in southern Angola, bordering to Namibia. The defence pact allowed Angolan troops to use Namibian territory when attacking [[Jonas Savimbi]]'s UNITA.
* Angola has an embassy in [[Windhoek]] and consulates-general in [[Oshakati]] and [[Rundu]].
* Namibia has an embassy in Luanda and consulates-general in [[Menongue]] and [[Ondjiva]].
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|{{flag|Nigeria}}||15 March 1976<ref name=":02"/>||See [[Angola–Nigeria relations]]

Angolan-Nigerian relations are primarily based on their roles as oil exporting nations. Both are members of the [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries]], the [[African Union]] and other multilateral organizations.
* Angola has an embassy in [[Abuja]].
* Nigeria has an embassy in Luanda.
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|{{flag|South Africa}}||17 May 1994<ref name=":02"/>||See [[Angola–South Africa relations]]

Angola-South Africa relations are quite strong as the ruling parties in both nations, the African National Congress in South Africa and the MPLA in Angola, fought together during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War. They fought against UNITA rebels, based in Angola, and the apartheid-era government in South Africa who supported them. Nelson Mandela mediated between the MPLA and UNITA factions during the last years of Angola's civil war.
* Angola has an embassy in [[Pretoria]] and consulates-general in [[Cape Town]] and [[Johannesburg]].
* South Africa has an embassy in Luanda.
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|{{flag|Zimbabwe}}||15 October 1982<ref name=":02"/>||See [[Angola–Zimbabwe relations]]
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