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9 unusual facts about Lobito


Académica Petróleos do Lobito

Académica Petróleos do Lobito, usually known as Académica Lobito, are a football (soccer) club from Lobito, Angola.

Africa–China economic relations

Angola and Zambia: the vital Benguela railway line built with the British and linking Zambia and RDC's copper mines to Angola's Atlantic port of Lobito, was to be rebuilt by the Chinese company CIF (the project was canceled after US$3b disappeared).

Cassinga

The client was the Compania Mineira do Lobito, the Lobito Mining Company, which developed an iron ore mine inland at Cassinga.

Lobito

It dates from 1905 and owes its existence to the bay of the same name having been chosen as the sea terminus of the Benguela railway to the far interior, passing through Luau to Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Marginella orstomi

The species is also related to Marginella huberti Clover, 1972, from Lobito, Angola.

Raul Águas

Raul António Águas (born 12 January 1949 in Lobito, Portuguese Angola) is a Portuguese retired football striker and manager.

Sindicato Angolano dos Camponeses e Operários

SINDACO remained based mainly in the Ovimbundu-dominated cities of Huambo and Lobito, whilst being marginalized in Luanda (where MPLA was monopolizing control over the trade union movement).

SS Adolph Woermann

At the outbreak of World War II on the homebound trip Adolph Woermann lay at Lobito in Portuguese Angola and was detained by the Portuguese authorities.

Tomaz Morais

Tomaz Eduardo Carvalho Morais (born in 6 April 1970 in Lobito, Angola) is a Portuguese rugby union coach and a former player.


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Nair Almeida

Nair Filipe Pires de Almeida (born January 23rd, 1984 in Catumbela), Benguela province, is an Angolan handball player who began her career in a small handball team called Escola de Andebol da Restinga, do Lobito (EARL).

Umbundu

Their homeland is the Central Highlands of Angola and the coastal region west of these highlands, including the cities of Benguela and Lobito.


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