Day: September 11, 2024

Angola’s Sagrada Esperança team arrived Tuesday in Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria, to face Enugu Rangers, as part of the first leg game of the qualifying round for the group stage of the African Champions Clubs League, scheduled for next Friday, at 3pm, at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium.

Before Friday’s game, Sagrada Esperança plans to have two training sessions, the first for recovery on Wednesday and the second for the pitch recognition at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium.

In the first preliminary, Sagrada Esperança eliminated Saint Louis from the Seychelles Islands, after winning in both legs (by 1-0 and 3-0).

However, this is the second time that Sagrada Esperança will compete for access to the group stage of the Champions Clubs League, after having done so in 2022.

In its first participation, the Angolan team qualified for the group stage, where it was eliminated by Wydad from Morocco in the round of 16.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

At least 194 citizens from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were repatriated in recent days, by the Migration and Foreigners Service (SME) in the Province of Cabinda, for illegal entry and stay in the national territory.

The repatriation took place at the Yema border post, state a note from the institutional communications and press office of the Provincial Delegation of the Ministry of the Interior in Cabinda sent to ANGOP.

The group includes 144 men and 50 women found in various locations in the region, as part of control and inspection actions against foreigners in an irregular migration situation.

The SME in Cabinda controls more than a thousand DRC citizens, of which 401 have resident status and 1,127 have work visas.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

The T-Mariz farm, a private initiative, located in the town of Luando, in the Province of Moxico, plans to produce wheat flour and rice in the 2024/25 agricultural season.

According to the farm’s owner, Teresa Vieira Mariz, an area of 20 hectares is being prepared in an experimental phase for the production of the aforementioned crops.

Teresa Vieira Mariz, also known as the ‘queen of cassava’, given her ‘strong’ commitment to agricultural production, said that annually the farm has had a harvest of more than 500 tons of cassava and 50 tons of corn, which have supplied the food markets in the provinces of Moxico, Lunda-Sul and Lunda-Norte, as well as Luanda.

For the new agricultural year is projected a production of 150 hectares of cassava, 70 hectares of corn and 20 hectares of sweet potatoes, among other crops.

The manager, who was speaking as part of a field visit by the OMA (Angolan women’s organization) secretary general, Joana Tomás, to verify the work carried out, in the scope of the ‘Kudima’ proje
ct, said that the goal is to acquire more equipment, in order to increase production levels.

‘I’m already at that level, but I would like to be able to do a lot’, Teresa Mariz said.

In turn, Joana Tomás committed to advocating so that more women involved in agriculture have access to bank credit to increase the volume of food production in the country.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Some 394,822 children under five years of age were vaccinated against polio in the province of Bié, in the third phase that took place from the 6th to the 8th of this month.

The local authorities’ forecast pointed to 382,211 children, with the availability of 451,300 doses.

The information was given on Wednesday, to ANGOP, by the head of the department of public health and control of endemic diseases, Isaías Sambunga Cambissa.

According to the official, 568 teams were involved in this project, with a total of three thousand and 40 technicians, including advisors, coordinators, supervisors, registrars, mobilizers, data managers, logisticians and vaccinators.

He praised the involvement of traditional authorities and religious entities in mobilizing the population, given that the campaign was carried out door to door, in health units and outposts set up in neighborhoods.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

The polio vaccination campaign in the province of Bengo exceeded the forecast of 87 thousand 685 children, with the immunization of 91 thousand 143 children.

The information was provided to the press Wednesday, by the director Bengo Provincial Health Office, Domingos Raul Golão, justifying the improvement in vaccination coverage with the increase in vaccination teams, the intensification of mobilization and the good preparation of the campaign by the health authorities.

Domingos Raul Golão added that the data provided is still provisional, so the numbers may change in the coming days.

In the 3rd phase of the campaign carried out from 6 to 8 September, 103,000 doses were made available and involved more than 800 agents, including vaccinators, mobilizers, supervisors, registrars and coordinators, in a total of 197 vaccination teams.

Poliomyelitis, also called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease transmitted from person to person, mainly through the fecal-oral route.

Source:
Angola Press News Agency

The vision of Angola’s first president, António Agostinho Neto, on the economy and social welfare, is perfectly aligned with the current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations Organisation (UNO).

This was stated by university lecturer Lando Emanuel Pedro, for whom Neto had a clear idea when he proclaimed agriculture as the basis and industry as the decisive factor for the country’s sustainable development.

Addressed by ANGOP on the life and work of the National Hero, the academic recalled that the Sustainable Development Goals call for global action aimed at eliminating poverty, protecting the environment and climate and ensuring that people enjoy peace and prosperity.

‘Agostinho Neto already had the vision that in order to eradicate hunger and poverty it was necessary to invest in agriculture and industry, the latter sector to enable the transformation of the products produced and thereby generate a value chain, more income and jobs,’ he emphasised.

According to the source, t
he SDGs are aligned with social welfare by ensuring not only production, but also sustainable transformation and consumption.

He also noted that this vision is in line with the policies that have been created by the Angolan Executive aimed at diversifying the national economy and therefore the country’s sources of income, by investing in agriculture, industry and other productive branches in a sustainable way.

‘Producing and transforming products is the right way to go, but in a sustainable way, without damaging the environment and jeopardising future generations,’ he said.

The country is observing National Hero Day to mark the death and birth of António Agostinho Neto.

The first President of Angola was born on 17 September 1922 in the village of Caxicane, Icolo e Bengo and died of illness on 10 September 1979 in Moscow, Russia.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Angola and Sweden on Tuesday in Stockholm signed a memorandum of understanding on co-operation in the energy sector, following a meeting on political consultations, as part of the strengthening of the partnership between the two countries.

The agreement, according to a press release distributed to ANGOP on Wednesday, was signed by the Secretary of State for Energy, Arlindo Manuel Carlos, and Hakan Jevrell, Secretary of State for Trade of the Kingdom of Sweden.

The meeting on Political Consultation Angola/Sweden was co-chaired by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Esmeralda Mendonça, and the State Secretary to the Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hakan Jevrell.

The occasion was used for the parties to analyse bilateral, regional and multilateral aspects, with a focus on issues related to the political and security situation in the Great Lakes region.

Within the bilateral framework, the parties looked at the economic p
anorama, emphasising the Energy, Transport, Agriculture, Fisheries, Education and Tourism sectors as drivers of economic partnership.

The meeting also discussed the importance of the Lobito Corridor, which links Angola’s southern regions with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the north-west with Zambia.

Speaking at the ceremony, Esmeralda Mendonça said that she hoped the parties would be more engaged, especially on development issues for the Lobito Corridor, as well as sharing knowledge on the management and implementation of commercial, industrial and economic development mechanisms.

As for multilateralism, the parties analysed the state of political and diplomatic relations between Angola and the European Union, based on the principle of reciprocity and mutual respect.

Esmeralda Mendonça’s trip to Stockholm was the result of the need to update existing commitments between the two countries in order to boost development and establish new cooperation strategies.

The source said that the working
meeting was a symbol of the fruitful relationship between the two countries, which dates back to the early days of Angola’s independence, and which has increasingly evolved to new levels of socio-economic development.

Source: Angola Press News Agency