Day: January 30, 2023

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MPs recommend greater attention to social sector

Huambo – MPs of National Assembly in the central Huambo province’s electoral constituency on Monday recommended the government to pay more attention to the health, agriculture and construction of roads during the 2023 financial year.

This was at the end of a meeting with the governor of Huambo province, Lotti Nolika,

The ruling MPLA party MP Adérito Chimuco said the government should increase the number of technicians in health units and make more medicine available to them.

The MP spoke of the need to permanently distribute fertilisers and other agricultural inputs to rural workers to increase production levels to combat poverty and aid economic diversification.

He also defended the reconstruction of roads and construction of bridges for better circulation of people and goods.

On the other hand, Chimuco spoke of the need to increase the budget for Huambo, saying that the region is the fourth most populated of the country, after Luanda, Huila and Benguela, with over 2.7 million inhabitants.

Monteiro Eliseu of UNITA said he has been in permanent interaction with the government of Huambo to defend the interests of the population, mainly in promoting common wellbeing.

The draft State Budget for the provincial government of Huambo for the 2023 economic year is estimated at 130.7 billion kwanzas.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

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Flooding of Luando river affects 20,000 families in Luquembo

Malanje- At least 20,000 families from the communes of Capunda, Quimbango and Cunga Palanga, municipality of Luquembo, have been isolated from other parts of the province of Malanje since last Thursday, due to the overflow of water from the Luando river, caused by heavy rains that hit the region.

The information was released on Monday by the municipal administrator of Luquembo, Alcino Siabala, stating that the water also cut traffic lanes and flooded crop fields belonging to peasant families.

In view of this tragedy, the municipal administration calls on the provincial government to come to the aid of the victims, whose situation is very touching.

For two years, this is the second time that the waters have overflowed the beds of the Luando River. The last flood occurred in 2020 and affected 9,000 families.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

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US multinational DAGAN LTD checks investment opportunities in Angola

Luanda – A delegation from US multinational company DAGAN LTD began a week-long visit to Angola on Sunday, with the aim of exploring the Angolan market so that they can soon invest in the agriculture and fishing sectors, mainly.

The delegation which is composed by the two presidents of the corporation, namely Sharon Amar and Assaff Bagg, as well as the vice-president of the group Talila Klainman, is to meet Monday morning with the minister of Agriculture and Forestry, António Francisco de Assis, the minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Carmen do Sacramento Neto, and in the afternoon they will meet with the board of the Agency for the Promotion of Private Investment and Exports (AIPEX).

During the visit, which will run from 29 January to 5 February, the US delegation, which arrived on Sunday, plans to travel to the centre-west Benguela Province to meet with provincial government officials and representatives of fishermen’s associations from the centre-south region of Angola.

After the two-day stay in Benguela, starting 4 February (public holiday), a visit to an agricultural project is scheduled, located in the area of Catete, east of Luanda Province, where there are several national and foreign initiatives.

Speaking briefly to ANGOP, Talila Klaiman said that the search for spaces to invest in Angola aims to respond to the national strategy of attracting investors to the agriculture and fishing sectors, which is now motivated by the new business legislation recently approved in Angola.

According to the official, they are looking for land that is in nearby areas to operate in both sectors, also looking for good logistical support, water and electricity, so that investments can be extended to livestock, saltpans, logistics and other areas.

She said that the DAGAN LTD group was founded in Israel, around 40 years ago, and that it also has investments and businesses in China and in Latin American countries and in this way they are now working to make room in Africa with projects to invest in Angola.

According to ANGOP, the group´s visit was a result of audiences that the Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, António Francisco de Assis, granted to the US businesspeople during his visit to Washington (USA), from 13 to 15 December, 2022, as part of the government’s policy to attract investments at this time of economic diplomacy in Angola.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

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Minister recommends consumers’ environmental awareness

Luanda – Environment Minister Ana Paula de Carvalho on Monday in Luanda spoke of the need to launch consumer awareness aimed at tackling the issue related to the waste the country is experiencing.

At the opening ceremony of the National Waste Conference, the minister said the Angolan Government approved an environmental education strategy focused on awareness as a way of preventing the production of waste.

She said that the strategy also included the development of campaigns to encourage citizens to adopt good practices, based on reduction, reuse, recovery and recycling.

The minister stressed the role of growing awareness of the impact of human action on the environment which, according to her, has driven the green economy, defined as one that results in improved well-being and social equity, reducing risks to the environment and ecological scarcity.

“The Investment and innovation should be encouraged, thus sustaining growth and favouring the emergence of new business opportunities and job creation, with an increasing efficient use of resources,” she reiterated.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

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