Luanda – The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, on Friday in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, defended the joint efforts of African leaders to combat terrorism.
Speaking at the closing of the African Union Summit on Humanitarian Issues and Donors Conference, the President of the Republic stressed that the joint efforts would lead to the improvement of governance, besides the provision of human and material resources.
The Angolan Head of State said that the equipment would help to give prompt and effective responses to emergency situations that may arise in the continent.
President Lourenço said that the initiatives of African leaders should include strategies that seek to solve the problems of the continent’s inhabitants.
He defended the social inclusion and reinsertion of the excluded sectors of societies and people, in order to integrate them in the process of construction and development of the respective countries.
Regarding the donors’ conference, the Angolan statesman said that the results would become a guiding document for the common action of the countries that make up the African Union.
For President Lourenço, the results of the summit contain a very clear analysis of the whole humanitarian situation in the continent and objective indications on the steps to be taken by all leaders to overcome the difficulties arising from humanitarian emergencies in Africa.
In his speech, João Lourenço recalled that the crisis around the deficit of the world food production should be part of the set of concerns and of the collective effort, to identify measures against the impacts that result from that action.
Source: Angola Press News Agency