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The MPLA flag has a yellow star in the center on a horizontal red and black background. It was created in 1959 by António Alberto Neto and was adopted by the party in 1960. In November 1975, a rival government, the Democratic People's Republic of Angola , was also established.
In the center of the flag is a shield with a golden pelican feeding its young in a purple field. The golden border of the shield contains five small blue shields with white dots and four red crosses of the Order of Christ. Above the shield is a mural crown and below the shield is a white scroll with the word "ANGOLA" written on it.
The national emblem of Angola reflects the recent past of the nation. It includes Marxist imagery found on the device (as can be seen when compared with other examples of socialist heraldry ), expanded from what is found on the national flag .
Angola, [a] officially the Republic of Angola, [b] is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Lusophone ( Portuguese-speaking ) country in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa .
Flag of Angola See also: List of Angolan flags The flag has two horizontal bands of red and black with the Machete and Gear emblem in gold in the center consisted of a five pointed-star within a half gear wheel crossed by a machete (resembling the hammer and sickle used on the Soviet flag).
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This flag represented Cabinda in the UNPO between 1997 and 2011. [1] Apart from FLEC-Renovada, whose flag was white with a central stripe divided into three colours (green, yellow and black, with a red ring in the middle of the flag), these factions continued to use the original red, yellow and blue flag.