Uíge (pronunciation: /wiːdʒ/; Kongo: Wizidi[3]) is one of the eighteen Provinces of Angola,[4] located in the northwestern part of the country.

In the beginning of the 20th century, the Kongo kingdom still existed on paper and the court in M'banza-Kongo was maintained, but had lost any effective power.

While part of the production came from European (mostly Portuguese) owned plantations, most producers were Bakongo smallholders; in both cased, they relied on forced or "contract" labour from the Ovimbundu.

[6] Rebels of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) had even occupied the province for short spells during renewed civil war in 1990s.

[6] Beginning in October 2004 and continuing into 2005, Uíge Province was the centre of an outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, a disease closely related to Ebola.

[12] The province is characterized by pastoral terrain and rich soil, with an area of 58,698 square kilometres (22,663 sq mi).

[12][13][6][14] The province's Beu Forest Reserve covers an area of 1,400 square kilometres (540 sq mi).

[17] The economy of the province is basically of traditional agricultural farming of coffee, beans, cassava, grain, peanuts, cotton, and wood.

[13] Plantation and production of coffee contributed largely to the economy of the province and also Angola during colonial times.

[12] Coffee production (in Uíge, Luanda, Cuanza Norte and Cuanza Sul provinces of Angola) was started by the Portuguese in 1830s and soon became a cash crop; the popular crop grown was robusta coffee (in its 2000 and odd plantations in Angola, owned mostly by the Portuguese).

The project has been taken up under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in 2008 between Hansa Resources Limited of Canada and Angala Petroleum Services (S.A.R.L).

Several other minerals, such as cobalt, gold, lead, manganese, silver, vanadium, and zinc, have also been found in this region.