Angola News

Capital flight in Angola, in 2011, was amounted at 1.7 billion kwanzas, according to the director of the Studies and International Relations Office of the Finance Ministry, Joo Boa Francisco Quipipa.

For the first time since the end of war, in 2002, the Angolan government has soldiers to patrolling the streets of a town and conducting house searches and arrests.

The United States and other countries are seeing a rise in lab-confirmed dengue cases in people who have traveled to Luanda, Angola's capital, and health providers should be aware that the disease in Africa is endemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today.

On April 1, 2013, the Public Health Directorate of Angola announced that six cases of dengue had been reported to the Ministry of Health of Angola .

The Provincial Court of Luanda adjourned today, June 14, the trial of journalist Domingos da Cruz, accused of inciting civil disobedience, for an article he wrote in 2009.

The Angolan National Insurance Company will promote on Monday in Luanda a Strategic Reflection Meeting with its collaborators, so as to analyse the results achieved in face of the guidelines defined by the campaign in 2011.

The Angolan president, Jos Eduardo dos Santos, and the provincial governors Friday in Luanda approved the report on the implementation of the Programme of Rural Development and Combat of Poverty and recommended the reinforcement of concerned resources under the 2014 budget.

The minister of Environment, Ftima Jardim, stressed Thursday in Luanda that the Mayombe forest will find axes of trans-border co-operation among the members of that initiative .

After covering two thirds of the first stage of the route to next year's Fifa World Cup, Uganda's pursuit for Brazil still holds some worthy lifeline.

For the first time since 2010, Tokyo is not the most expensive location for international job assignments, having been surpassed by Oslo, Norway, according to a new survey by ECA International, a global human resource consulting firm.

The Angolan Head of State, Jos Eduardo dos Santos, sworn in this Wednesday the new counsellor judges of the supreme and audit courts and new Assistant Attorneys General, recently appointed last Monday here.

Two years ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Angola's President Eduardo dos Santos agreed on a 'strategic partnership.'

Alert Namibia & Angola Severe drought in Namibia & Angola Geneva, 10 June 2013 1. Brief description of the emergency and impact Prolonged dry spells in Southern Africa have led to a food and water crisis in Namibia and Angola where the respective governments have called on the international community for support.

The deputy governor of central Huambo province for Political and Social Affairs, Guilherme Tuluca, Friday here highlighted the importance of the creation of juridical and labour norms that govern the relation between workers and employers.

A seminar on "Reorganisation and Modernisation of the Public Procurement Market" will take place on Thursday in Luanda, under the Ministry of Finance.

More than Akz 9.0 million have been invested by the central Bie province Government in the construction of 12 houses in the administrative centre of Kuquema, some 20 kilometres south of the capital city, Kuito, Angop learned recently.

The economic commission of the Cabinet Council analysed on Thursday, in Luanda, matters on the memo of monetary and exchange market evolution related to May 27 to 31, 2013, under the leadership of President Jos Eduardo dos Santos.

A German business team is working on Friday in Lubango City, southern Huila Province, aimed at seeking partnerships, ANGOP has learnt.

The Angolan head of State, Jos Eduardo dos Santos, said that the process for his succession in the presidency of Angola will start from the ruling MPLA party, upon the election of a new leader.

The minister of Geology and Mining, Francisco Queiroz, was sworn in this Friday, in Luanda, new staff of the Ministry.