Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in west-central Angola and flowing about 1,125 km (700 mi) south and west to the Atlantic Ocean. It forms the Angola-Namibia border in its lower course.
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Angola's Cunene and Mocamedes provinces were liberated after years of SADF control.
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Angola's Cunene and Mocamedes provinces were liberated after years of SADF control.
CONTENTS 2008
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Fish life in the oshana delta in Owambo, Namibia, and the translocation of Cunene species.
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The southern provinces of Cunene, Huila, Namibe and Cuando Cubango have been worst hit by the intensive downpours which come after a lengthy drought.
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Cunene, which has an HIV/AIDS rate of 9.12 percent, and the northern region of Uige where the rate is 4.8 percent, according to the health ministry.
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The minister said the rise in infections of HIV - the virus that causes AIDS - was especially strong in the coastal provinces of Luanda and Benguela as well as in the province of Cunene which borders Namibia.
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Delagoa River; the Cunene (Nourse) River, the Orange River, and others, which would be first-rate streams in Europe, but are mere dwarfs in the presence of the four African giants.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Cunene, Huila, Malanje and Kwanza Norte showed that at least five people were falling victim to mines daily in each province.
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In the southern Cunene province, he visited Ongiva, which had been subject to frequent attack by the former SA Defence Force.
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Cunene province, 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) south of Luanda, the paper said.
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