The Angolan government has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to bring the Africa Cup of Nations to their country for the first time.
But while four new stadia and an improved infrastructure will be left behind, many in Angola feel the money should have been spent elsewhere.
The vast majority of young would-be footballers in Angola have little or no access to proper training facilities and often struggle just to get a decent meal every day. Andy Richardson reports from Luanda.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"