Host nation Angola is scheduled to kick off the tournament against Mali on Sunday in Luanda.
Luanda has been reckoned the world's most expensive capital, though Tokyo recently overtook it.
"Just around the corner is Luanda, " says Longwell, pointing to the headlands in the background.
Angola host Namibia in Luanda on 9 May in the next match in the competition.
Luanda's once shabby waterfront has been transformed after land was reclaimed from the sea.
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The Ivorian foreign minister visited Luanda, where he was received by everyone from the president down.
In Luanda, slum-dwellers complain that forced recruitment, a regular practice during the war, has started again.
Mr Leviev is building another factory in Luanda, Angola, partly hoping to curry favour with the government.
The two-hour flight from Luanda to the Namibian capital, Windhoek, felt more like a journey through the looking-glass.
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For the powerful types who watched Miss Luanda crowned, war has brought prosperity.
Her first business venture was an eatery in Luanda called Miami Beach Club.
Many diplomats, traders and others in Luanda believe the Angolan government is broke.
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According to western diplomats in Luanda, a stream of middle-ranking American officers has visited the capital in recent weeks.
The initial 4G roll-out includes the oil-producing region of Cabinda, as well as 15 densely-populated cities and towns including Luanda.
Hosts Angola played to a dramatic 4-4 with Mali as the competition began in the capital Luanda later on Sunday.
Unita demanded a re-run in Luanda, but a commission spokesman said this request was turned down for lack of evidence.
The members who chose to come to Luanda and take up political posts represent the moderate wing of the movement.
Some people mock Luanda's manicured lawns, but the government is pouring money into much-needed infrastructure in other parts of the country.
Defending champions Enyimba returned triumphant to domestic action after their Champions League set back against Petro Luanda of Angola last weekend.
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In Luanda, swanky office buildings are going up and informal shacks gradually being demolished as residents are relocated to new houses.
Polio is transmitted by faecal-oral contact, and a lot of this goes on in the crowded and unhygienic refugee camps around Luanda.
But if prices in Dubai seem inflated, they have nothing on Luanda.
Goncalves has been handed a contract that runs until the middle of 2006, football officials in the Angolan capital Luanda announced on Monday.
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In Luanda, people are coaxed to leave their shacks and move to brand-new houses built by Chinese contractors, but many move quickly back into town.
They also ambushed traffic on the coast road south of Luanda.
Mr Savimbi's second big breach of the agreement is his refusal to leave the central highlands to take up his position as opposition leader in Luanda.
On July 14th Mr Kabila was summoned to Angola's capital, Luanda, for a chat with President dos Santos, presumably to be asked to do something about this.
Mr Savimbi withdrew all of his credible representatives from Luanda last month, and despite entreaties from a stream of diplomats has refused to allow them to return.
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