The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, left Luanda on Sunday to Paris, for a three-day official visit to the Republic of France. According to a press release from the Civil Office of the President of the Republic, the Head of State will then make an official visit to the Kingdom of Belgium. In France,
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The President and CEO of the Dannish group Haldor Topsoe announced on Monday in Luanda, the construction of a factory in Soyo municipality, Zaire province with the capacity to produce two million tons of fertilizer per year. The project is valued at two billion dollars, totally private and will be built in three years, according
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Angola marks today the 41st anniversary of its admission as a full member of the United Nations. According to a press release by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the admission of Angola as a member of the UN on December 1, 1976, was based on the resolution 397/76. The press release notes that “for being
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The Republic of Angola was elected on 16 October by the United Nations General Assembly in New York, as member of the UN Human Rights Council, for the period 2018 – 2020. Angola was among the four candidates from Africa to the Council, alongside the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Senegal. In all, the
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On September 28 and 29, the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, nominated, by presidential decree, the heads of different government departments as follows: Manuel José Nunes Júnior, as State Minister for Economic and Social Development; Pedro Sebastião, as State Minister and Head of the Security Office of the President of the Republic Frederico Manuel
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The 220 members of the Parliament elected in the general elections held on August 23 of this year were sworn in at the National Assembly on September 28, for a five-year term. At the ceremony, the members of the Parliament took the oath of allegiance to the fatherland, received their individual badges, symbol of identification
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The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, was invested on Tuesday at the Square of the Republic, in Luanda, for a five years term. The winner of the general elections of 2017 on the MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola) ticket was invested by the President of the Constitutional Court, Rui Ferreira, before
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Angola is attending the 45th Ordinary Meeting of the Committee of Central Bank Governors (CCBG) of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which will go from September 12th until the 16th. The Angolan delegation is headed by the governor of the National Bank of Angola (BNA), Valter Filipe da Silva and includes directors and other
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A total of six political parties ran in the Angolan general elections held on August 23, namely, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), the Social Renewal Party (PRS), the National Patriotic Alliance (APN),
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The President of the Republic, José Eduardo dos Santos, under the terms of the Constitution and the Organic Law on General Elections, issued on April 25 a presidential decree, which calls for General Elections to fill the office of the President of the Republic and Deputies to the National Assembly, be held on August 23,
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