2015

According to Luís Mourão da Silva, CEO of the Electricity Regulatory Institute (IRSE), the National Electrification Program will bring electricity to 86 municipality throughout Angola by 2017. Speaking at the Conference on Energy Development for the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), Silva added that by 2025 Angola’s electrification rate will go from the current […]

The Embassy of the Republic Angola in Japan in close cooperation with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Angola held in Luanda from March 9 to 11, 2015 the second Angola-Japan Business Forum. This event came as a follow up to the Angola-Japan Business Forum held in Tokyo in September 4, 2013. The

The Angolan National Program of Urbanization and Housing aims to provide to the population, by 2017, about 213,000 houses and 14 new towns across the country to reduce the huge housing deficit. The information was released by the Minister of Territory Administration, Bornito de Sousa, at the closing ceremony of the 3rd International Conference on

The Angola Liquefied Natural Gas project (Angola LNG) is expected to resume its works by the end of this year, as the technical issues that stalled the project have been overcome. The plant, located in the City of Soyo, Zaire Province, is currently undergoing an overall technical evaluation as well as improvements to its entire

Angola will host on 22-26 June in Luanda, the meeting of the intercession of the Kimberley Process (KP) that will bring together more than 200 delegates from 82 countries. The event which has been held annually since the founding of the Kimberley Process (KP) in 2003, aims at assessing the activities undertaken thus far as

The Defence Minister of the Central African Republic (CAR), Marie Noel Kuoyara, thanked on June 5th, in Luanda, the Angolan Government’s support for her country to achieve political stability. Speaking to the press following a meeting with her Angolan counterpart, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, Kuoyara said that RCA and Angola are brother countries as it

A forum of the heads of the parliamentary groups of the ruling parties in the SADC region, was held on June 3 – 4, in Luanda. The forum aims to become a privileged venue for the ruling parties in Southern Africa region to discuss and seek joint solutions for issues affecting the region’s peoples and

The Republic of Angola, through its Ministry of Urbanization and Housing, was elected on May 25, in New York as a member of the governing board of UN-Habitat, for a four-year term, starting on January 1st, 2016. Angola will fill one of two vacancies to be opened in the Southern African region, with the end