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Gulf News Emirates serves key African oil nation as flights to Luanda come on stream Dubai Emirates' 18th destination in Africa, oil-producing Angola, came on stream yesterday with the launch of flights to Luanda. Among the delegation joining the inaugural flight from Dubai were Nigel Page, Emirates senior vice-president, commercial operations, Americas and Africa; Rui Mangueira, the Angolan Ambassador to the UAE; Julio Maiato, Angola's Consul General in Dubai, and Salah Sharaf, director general of the Sharaf Group. The three-a-week service means Emirates now serves Africa's two biggest oil exporters. The award winning carrier has been serving Nigeria since 2004 and went twice daily to Lagos in February. The new non-stop air link also comes at a time of aggressive trade growth between Dubai and Angola. In 2004, non-oil trade... [read full story]
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