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Cafunfo
Sign in to saveCafunfo is a town, with a population of 90,000 (2014), in North-Eastern Angola (Lunda Norte Province) dominated by the informal and formal diamond mining industries. The area has numerous alluvial diamond deposits.
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- Locality
- Cafunfo
- Region
- Lunda Norte
- Country
- Angola
- Population
- 90,000
- Timezone
- Africa/Luanda
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Angola
- Located in
- Lunda Norte Province
- Population
- 90000
- Elevation
- 850
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Cafunfo is a town, with a population of 90,000 (2014), in North-Eastern Angola (Lunda Norte Province) dominated by the informal and formal diamond mining industries. The area has numerous alluvial diamond deposits.
During the 1980s and 1990s it was the subject of heavy fighting between the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) or the Angolan Armed Forces on multiple occasions; and on at least two occasions foreign mineworkers were held hostage by UNITA during that period, including on one occasion involving a forced march to UNITA's headquarters at Jamba in the South of the country.
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