Day: September 14, 2021

Luanda – The former President of the Republic, José Eduardo dos Santos, returned Tuesday to the country, after staying for two years in Barcelona, Spain, ANGOP reported.

The former Head of State, who went to Barcelona in April 2019, landed at the 4 de Fevereiro International Airport, in Luanda, around 11am.

José Eduardo dos Santos, 79-year old, came to power as President of the Republic in September 1979, following the death of António Agostinho Neto.

He held office for 38 years, until September 2017, when he was succeeded by the current President of the Republic, João Lourenço.

In addition to being President of the Republic, José Eduardo dos Santos was Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Angola (FAA) and president of MPLA, the party that has ruled the country since the proclamation of national independence on 11 November 1975.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Ndalatando – The governor of Cuanza Norte province, Adriano Mendes de Carvalho, reaffirmed today in Ndalatando, the government’s continued commitment to re-launch the agro-livestock activity in the region.

For Adriano Mendes de Carvalho, the re-launch of this activity will allow the province to regain the golden era when coffee, cotton, sisal, palm oil, among other products, were decisive for the development of the region’s economy.

Adriano Mendes de Carvalho, who was speaking at a meeting with the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, also argued the need to turn the province into an important logistics centre for the country, capable of supplying the central, southern, eastern and northern regions.

He said that this was due to the province’s strategic location, which gave it the status of a hub.

He said the transformation of the region into the country’s logistics centre would boost the province’s ongoing development activities.

Cuanza Norte is located in northwest Angola, bordered to the north by the province of Uige, to the west by Bengo and Luanda, to the east by Malanje and to the south by Cuanza Sul.

The province is linked by many national roads which connect it with the Angolan capital, Luanda.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – A memorandum of understanding for training Angolan technicians in the transport sector and exchanging experience was initialled Tuesday in Lisbon, between the National Institute of Road Transport (INTR) and the Mobility and Transport Authority (AMT).

The document initialled by the Acting Director-General of the INTR, Énio Renato de Magalhães Costa, and by the Chairwoman of the Board of the Mobility and Transport Authority, Ana Paula Vitorino, includes the exchange of information and cooperation in terms of regulation, operation and supervision of road transport, particularly in terms of exchanging technological, technical and capacity-building experience.

With the memorandum, it is intended to strengthen and promote, on an equal basis, mutually beneficial cooperation in different areas in the field of road transport system, including road infrastructure, as well as the service of dangerous goods transport, freight and passenger transport, especially with regard to economic regulation of the various modes.

The areas of cooperation between the Parties under this Memorandum will relate to the regulation, operation and supervision of infrastructure and services, in the road mode, concerning passenger and freight transport, infrastructure technology and services, in the road mode, concerning passenger and freight transport.

The cooperation between the Parties provided for in this Memorandum may take forms such as exchange of information and documentation, by means of research reports, publications, consultancy, studies or other instruments.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – The 835 projects approved by commercial banks under the Programme to Support Production, Export Diversification and Import Substitution (PRODESI), since 2019, amount to an approximate value of Kz 729.4 billion, the Secretary of State for the Economy, Dalva Allen, said today in Luanda.

Speaking in her debut at the usual Briefing of the Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP), Dalva Allen noted that the projects approved provided for over 67,000 jobs.

She also said that 45 projects were under negotiation with the commercial banks, which ended the week without any new approval.

She noted that the 45 projects were linked to financial instruments notice 10/20 of the National Bank of Angola (BNA) 34 and PAC 11.

She said that the sectoral distribution of approved projects included agriculture with 388, commerce and distribution 203, manufacturing 118, livestock 45, aquaculture 43, sea fishing 32 and continental fishing 6.

Dalva Allen said that in the area of access to the internal market, the registration of producers on the National Production Disclosure Portal (PPN) continues. In accumulated terms, since it became operational, the Portal has 20,666 national producers, 1387 more than last week.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Cuito – State Secretary for Energy, António Belsa da Costa is working today in Bié province to check the progress of several projects related to the sector, namely in Cuito, Chitembo, Andulo and Nharêa municipalities.

António Belsa da Costa met with the provincial governor, Pereira Alfredo, visited several social infrastructures in Chitembo and the works of Cuito municipal hospital in Cunje commune.

Antonio Costa’s schedule for today includes a visit to the Camacupa dam, as well as the sector’s infrastructures in Andulo and Nharêa districts, 130 and 175 kilometres north of the capital, respectively.

Speaking to the press, after the audience with governor Pereira Alfredo, the secretary of State acknowledged that the sector is facing a lack of financial resources to materialise projects in several regions of the country.

He appealed to the clients of the National Electricity Company (ENDE), to pay for their consumption, in order to obtain resources that will be used in favour of the population.

However, he regrets the acts of vandalism that the sector has suffered by people of bad faith, calling for denunciation in order to hold the perpetrators accountable.

Source: Angola Press News Agency