Angola News

Luanda International Jazz Festival is proud to announce that the venue of the inaugural event is the Cine Atlantico instead of the Convention Centre, which was initially earmarked, but is unavailable.

The improvement in graphics and information contents in the new online service of the state-owned daily newspaper Jornal de Angola will help readers to have diversified and facilitated information.

Angola and Russia have signed six cooperation accords in various sectors during Russian President Dimitri Medevdev's one-day official visit to Angola at the weekend.

Russian President Dimitri Medvedev said on Friday said that his country will begin from now to pay greater attention to economic relations with Angola, mainly in the area of investments.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev thinks that the states that earlier had colonies in Africa should think about paying back the debt to the African continent.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is spending only a few hours in Angola, but has a lot on his agenda in the oil- and diamond-rich southern African country that has long had close ties to Moscow.

The minister of Home Affairs, Roberto Leal Monteiro "Ngongo" made Friday in Luanda, the delivery of 562 vehicles to support various organs engaged in the sector at the national level.

The programme that aims to spread fixed Internet all over the country would bring higher costs for the State and for those enterprises working with information technologies, affirmed this Friday, in Luanda, computer science expert, Rui Manuel dos Santos.

A new report issued by Human Rights Watch Monday calls for the Angolan government to end the arrest and torture of suspected rebels in the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda.

The minister of Economy, Manuel Nunes Jnior, said on Saturday in Viana district, in Luanda, that with the creation of the "Nosso Super" commercial network it was possible to reduce price hike in products part of the basic commodities of the national market.

The foundation stone for the construction of the new cold storage warehouse with the capacity of conserving 500 tonnes of farming products of the Angolan Firm for the Conservation and Trading of Perishable Products "FRESCANGOL", was laid this Tuesday, in Luanda, by the minister of Agriculture, Afonso Pedro Canga.

The world financial and economic crises slightly affected the concession program of micro-credit for family agricultures affiliated in Unaca-Confederation of Farmer Associations and Cooperative Companies of Angola, assured this Tuesday, in Luanda, the head of the organization, Paulo Uime.

Loans with large margin for risks processed by the Angolan BIC bank, are recording an increase on interest rate, said in Luanda the CEO of that insitution, Fernando Teles.

The deputy minister of Industry, Kiala Gabriel, Monday in Luanda said that despite the global financial and economic crisis, Angola still keeps on inspiring the confidence of investors.

Luanda is the most expensive city in the world for foreign workers, according to a survey.

In an attempt to reduce rural poverty, Angola's government plans to diversify its oil-focused economy by trying to restore the country's once-booming agricultural sector.

The Angolan Armed Forces 's pension scheme delegates in Malanje, Lunda Norte, Huambo and Kuando Kubango provinces were sworn in Friday, in Luanda, during a ceremony chaired by Defence minister, Kundi Paihama.

Luanda, Jun 4 Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos received on Thursday Cuban Ambassador Pedro Ross Leal, who was the bearer of a friendly message from Cuba.

An Angolan woman was rescued by police after being kept prisoner for eight years by her family, who believed she was a witch, Angolan state media reported on Thursday.

In the lobby bar of one of Luanda's few decent hotels, suited businessmen sit in deep leather armchairs waiting for a meeting in the oil-rich country which could change their fortunes.