Day: July 18, 2022

Luanda – Angolan Public Television (TPA) has launched, this Monday in Luanda, its channel TPA-News, which will operate 24 hours a day.

The launching ceremony took place at the Camama Production Centre, in the presence of the Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Mass Media, Manuel Homem.

In his brief intervention, Minister Manuel Homem highlighted the importance of the new channel, its challenges and the aspect of training staffs capable of keeping the channel on air, with the desired quality.

The event was also attended by the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Mário Augusto da Silva Oliveira, for Mass Media, Nuno Albino, and for Finance, Dalva Ringote.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Dundo – Twenty-two trainers of future polling station members in Lunda Norte province, started being trained today, Monday, in Chitato municipality, with a view to the general elections on 24 August.

For five days, the trainers will learn about the constitution and composition of the polling station, tasks linked to the agents, the delivery of material, identification and composition of the electoral ballots, ballot papers, among other issues.

At the opening of the training, the commissioner of the Provincial Electoral Commission, Marcolino Cassinda, called on trainees to make the most of the knowledge they were given, taking into account the importance of the role of the agents and/or members of the polling station in the electoral process.

He informed that next week, the training of local trainers for the training of members of the municipal polling stations will begin in the municipalities.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – The Council of Ministers on Monday approved the creation of the National Demining Centre, an entity that results from the merger of several organisms focused on this activity.

In the scope of the ongoing reforms, the single demining entity merges the National Demining Institute, the Executive Commission for Demining, the demining brigades of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and the Military House of the President of the Republic.

The creation of the said National Demining Centre aims to ensure greater rationality and efficiency of the demining activity and the materialisation of the principle of rationalisation and administrative simplification in the sector.

In this 7th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers, which was guided by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, the Remuneratory Statute of the National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) was also approved.

The document defines the guiding principles of remuneration, in addition to establishing the indicative table of basic salary, allowances and other benefits applicable to members of the ANAC Board of Directors.

Also in the Transport area, the Council of Ministers approved a Presidential Decree that regulates, in the public domain, the lands of the coastline, in areas of jurisdiction of the maritime-port authorities, with the purpose of restoring the normal processing of the use of these spaces for the exercise of profitable economic activities in market conditions, observing competition and transparency.

Another document approved by the Council of Ministers was the National Road Statute, a technical-legal instrument that establishes the norms of use and protection of national roads and their surroundings, the adequate conditions for their management, exploration, maintenance and conservation.

The said instrument establishes a regime of applicable sanctions, in order to ensure the durability of the roads and the need for future development.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – The 37th edition of the International Fair of Luanda (FILDA/2022) ended today, Monday, its third day with the approach of renewable energy projects and the implementation of the Local Content Law in the oil sector.

The fair, with an estimated average of 4,000 visitors per day, offered the attendees the themes “Local Content in the oil sector and business opportunities,” “Financial products for the real sector,” and culminated with an analysis of “Digital inclusion as a factor for growth of the economy.

During the approach to the themes, the coordinator of the Local Content nucleus of the National Oil and Gas Agency (ANPG), Maura Nunes, said that the regulation of the regimes of Preference and Exclusivity of the Local Content in the oil sector brought more openness for national companies to invest in the sector, within the framework of provision of services and goods.

In terms of financial products, the deputy director of the Credit Monitoring Office of the National Bank of Angola (BNA), Ângela Nunes, stressed that around 718, 64 billion kwanzas had been effectively disbursed to the real sector of the economy, since 2019, by commercial banks via BNA instructives.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – The Inter-ministerial Commission for State Reform approved, on Monday, the insertion in a single document, of the data that currently appears in the car registration booklet and the car ownership registration title, under the scope of SIMPLIFICA 1.0 implementation.

According to a press release from the meeting of the body, chaired by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, the Incorporated Vehicle Title will make it possible to considerably reduce the time and costs spent by users in obtaining the two documents.

The commission also approved, for later consideration by the Council of Ministers, the preliminary draft presidential decree of SIMPLIFICA 2.0, a legal diploma that aims to carry on the continuous and systematic implementation of reforms of acts and procedures, focusing on the economic sector.

In this regard, the licenses or permits required for the exercise of activities are of particular importance, in order to increase the levels of confidence of citizens and companies in public services.

The aim is also to contribute to improving the business environment and guarantee interoperability between Public Administration services.

Source: Angola Press News Agency