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.

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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.