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Jornal de Angola

Angolan newspaper

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ1704026 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jornal de Angola is the only daily newspaper in Angola since the independence of the country in 1975.

The organization uses wire feeds from ANGOP, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, EFE, and Prensa Latina. The newspaper is published in Luanda by Edições Novembro. In addition to the printed newspaper, it has an online edition.

Editorial summary

“Jornal de Angola” enters the record as angolan newspaper. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jornal, Angola and Angolan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-08-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jornal, Angola and Angolan.
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Why this record matters

“Jornal de Angola” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jornal, Angola and Angolan provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1704026. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jornal de Angola” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.