Month: June 2022

Ondjiva – At least 4,99 explosive devices were deactivated during the first quarter of this year by demining operators in Cunene province.

The information was provided Wednesday by the liaison officer of the National Mine Action Agency in Cunene, Mário Satipamba, noting that the material included 23 anti-personnel mines, eight anti-tank mines, 365 devices and remnants of war, 101 small caliber ammunition and two metals.

Satipamba said that the devices were deactivated in the municipalities of Cuanhama, Ombadja, Namacunde and Cuvelai, during specific demining actions.

He added that the undetonated explosive devices were found as a result of a popular complaint and others in suspicious areas, particularly in the Môngua commune, where every year there are records of deaths from incidents with mines.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – The Minister of Youth and Sports, Ana Paula do Sacramento Neto, asked for precautions to avoid that the National Junior Female Handball Team athletes feel psychological pressure, ahead of the World Championship, to be held from June 22 to July 3, in Slovenia.

According to the official, this risk stems from the fact that handball is a winning sport, also at this age group, with successive victories in African Championships and appearances in World Championships.

Speaking to the press on the sidelines of the ceremony of handing over the Flag of the Republic of Angola to the National Team for the event, she asked, however, for greater commitment from the athletes so that the final result is satisfactory.

The national team head this Friday (03) to Hungary, where they will hold the second phase of preparation.

It is expected control games with the national teams of the United States, Brazil, Hungary, Romania and South Korea.

In the World Cup in Slovenia, Angola is in group E, alongside Lithuania, Romania and the Czech Republic.

Angola is the current African champion of the category (counting with nine trophies), a feat achieved last February in Guinea Conakry.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Menongue – The acting governor of Cuando Cubango, Bonifácio Cassanga, reiterated today, Wednesday, in this city, the need to value the families, for constituting the fundamental base of the society, natural means for the growth and welfare of the child.

Thus, the practical execution of the rights contained in the eleven commitments for children will continue to be part of the priorities of the local government, with a view to their full and multifaceted development, with emphasis on free education, medical care and protection against all forms of exploitation.

This position of the deputy governor was expressed in the act that marked the “International Children’s Day”, which is marked today, having pointed out that this reason leads to an increase in all the municipalities and communes of classrooms, teacher training, construction of children’s centres and community education.

The Cuando Cubango director of the National Children’s Institute, Lérias Natália Mutango Biwango, called on all public and private institutions, families, churches and civil society in general to transmit values, information and behavioural norms of social and cultural interest to children.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – The Angolan National Football Team have made an auspicious start to the qualifiers for the 2023 African Nations Cup, in Côte d’Ivoire, after beating CAR, 2-1, Wednesday, in a match played at the 11 de Novembro stadium, in Luanda.

The match is for the first round of group (E).

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Talatona – The Minister of Social Action, Family and Women Promotion, Faustina Inglês Alves de Sousa, repudiated today, Wednesday, the acts of violence against children, practiced by parents or close relatives.

According to the government official, who made this statement during the opening speech of the ceremony on the occasion of the International Children’s Day, which is commemorated today under the slogan “All Together for the Protection and Full Development of Children”, her portfolio will increase and improve the levels of knowledge on children’s rights.

Regarding the 11 commitments of the Children’s Act, she mentioned that at least nine of them have already been well addressed and that children have the right to school and health.

Faustina Alves de Sousa considered that the number of children who are in homes and are not adopted is worrying because most people prefer to adopt children under the age of five.

On the other hand, she urged people to adopt children from the age of seven onwards, because they also have the right to a home, affection and love.

For his part, the representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), Giovani Diamato, said that children deserve quality education, medical assistance, vaccination and adequate nutrition.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – Angola has already created the conditions to host the headquarters of the Permanent Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Community of the Portuguese Language Countries (AP-CPLP), which will be close to the National Assembly (Angolan parliament), in Luanda.

The information was advanced Wednesday by the president of the National Monitoring Group of the Portuguese Language Countries Virgílio de Fontes Pereira at the end of a meeting with the group of ambassadors from the CPLP member states.

The MP made a positive evaluation of the installment process of the headquarters of the Permanent Secretariat of AP-CPLP in the country’s capital.

The official made known that Angola committed itself a lot to the installation and functioning process of the Secretariat having in 2019 set four priority objectives which is related to the assurance that the AP-CPLP Permanent Secretariat would be available in the National Assembly Palace.

The MP assured that the premises in question are available and were visited by the delegation of the CPLP Executive Secretariat headed by its secretary, Zacarias da Costa, who is in Luanda for working reasons.

According to the source, the second objective was to create organizational conditions so that as soon as there was permission for the installation of the permanent secretariat with the appointment of the Secretary, the institution could have a ground work done not to have deadlocks for its opening.

Virgílio de Fontes Pereira emphasized that this process was made through the constitution of an Installing Committee that works in the facilities of the future permanent secretariat that is in charge of all organizational aspects.

On the other hand, the Executive Secretary of the CPLP informed that the Permanent Secretariat of the organization has been exploring ways of working with the AC-CPLP as it shares common themes, such as the fight against violence, exploitation of minors and child labor, mobility issues, among others.

Currently, Angola chairs the rotational presidency of the Community of the Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), organization that was created in 17 July 1996, in Lisbon and is composed by nine member states.

The CPLP comprises Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor.

Source: Angola Press News Agency