In order to increase the safety of maternal and child health professionals and patients, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), through the “Project for the Improvement of Mother and Child Health through the Implementation of the Maternal Health Notebook Infantile (PROMESSA-CSMI) ”, will make the donation of biosafety means to health units in Luanda Province.

The act began this Tuesday, September 1st, 2020, at the Reference Health Center of Bom Jesus, located in the municipality of Icolo e Bengo, with the symbolic delivery made by the Chief Representative of JICA in Angola, Mr. MIYAMOTO Yoshihiro .

The event was attended by entities from the Provincial Health Office of Luanda, Municipal Directorate of Icolo and Bengo and members of the PROMESSA-CSMI Project. This key support of the Japanese people in the fight against COVID-19, will extend to all municipalities in the Province of Luanda.

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REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA
MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Office of the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF
HIS EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR DOMINGOS VIEIRA LOPES
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND ANGOLAN COMMUNITIES

DOMINGOS CUSTÓDIO VIEIRA LOPES was born in Luanda on April 1, 1959. He is married and has four children.

Career Ambassador, with an academic background that began at Cáritas Portuguesa (primary school) and at the then João Crisóstomo School (preparatory); in 1975 he passed through the Center for Revolutionary Instruction (CIR) of Tombo; attended 5th year of high school at Ngola Kiluange School and Pre-university Education at Mutu-Ya-Kevela School; attended the 3rd year of Law at Agostinho Neto University and graduated in Development Management and International Cooperation at the Modern University of Lisbon/Portugal.

During his professional career he held management and leadership positions at the then Secretary of State for Cooperation (SECOOP) where he was Head of the Planning and Finance Department (1982) and Head of the Global Planning Department (1984).

With the merger between MIREX and SECOOP he assumed the position of Director of the Planning Office of SECOOP (1987) and Head of the Programmes and Projects Department of the Economic Affairs Office of MIREX (1990).

He was National Liaison Officer and Coordinator of the SADCC/SADC Committee of Experts. In this capacity, he participated in seven Summits of Heads of State and seven Ministerial Conferences with international cooperation Partners.

He coordinated the Expert Group of Angola in the technical meetings that under the guidance of the Heads of State participated in the elaboration of the SADC Treaty signed in Windhoek-Namibia, in August 1992.

At the Secretariat of State for Cooperation he was Director for Africa and the Middle East (1992) and Director for International Organisations (1996).

At the Ministry of External Relations , he was Head of the Asia and Oceania Department of the Directorate for Bilateral Cooperation (2002); Advisor/Minister-Councillor at the Embassy of the Republic of Angola in the Kingdom of Sweden, Nordic Countries and Baltic States (2003); Head of America Department of the Directorate for Bilateral Cooperation (2008); Director of the Directorate for Bilateral Cooperation (2010); promoted to Career Ambassador (2010); Consultant at the Office of the Secretary of State for Administrative Organization (2012); Consul General of the Republic of Angola in Oporto/Portugal (2013); appointed Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities (2017).

During his career, he has participated in several activities such as

• Coordination of Bilateral Cooperation Committees;
• Participation in the negotiation of General Cooperation Agreements between Angola and Cuba (Vice President of the Republic) and Brazil (President of the Republic);
• Participation in the signing of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between Angola and the United States of America;
• Participation in various Commissions to draft the Organic Statute of the Ministry of External Relations;
• Coordinator of the Commission for the creation of the Cooperation Institute;
• Upgrading courses on Project Management in Angola, Brazil and China.

He understands and speaks English, Spanish and French.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF
HER EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR
ESMERALDA BRAVO CONDE DA SILVA MENDONÇA
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Esmeralda Bravo Conde da Silva Mendonça, born on July 2, 1963, in the then municipality of Rangel, Province of Luanda, is the daughter of Mário Conde Nunes da Silva and Iolanda António.

She attended primary school in Kibala, Kuanza-Sul province, where she was a boarding student at Lar da Mocidade Portuguesa.

Back in Luanda, she continued her studies and in 1978 finished secondary school at N’Zinga M’bandi School.

In 1993, she concluded the High Course in Labour Economics at the Centre for Labour Studies, in the city of Luanda, and in 2006 she graduated in Law from the Agostinho Neto University, also in the city of Luanda.

She has been a staff member of the Ministry of External Relations since 1983, having entered the diplomatic career in 1993, in the rank of Third Secretary.

She rose to the rank of Minister Counsellor in 2015, and Ambassador in 2019.

Throughout her career she has attended several professional training courses, in particular the Diplomatic and Consular Training Course, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal in 1997, the Professional Technical Upgrading Course for Diplomats, organized by the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of External Relations (IRI) in 2004, the 3rd Diplomatic Practices Course for the PALOP (African Portuguese-Speaking Countries), promoted by the Institute Rio Branco do Brasil, in 2011, in Maputo city, Republic of Mozambique.

She also attended the X Course of International Relations Organized by the Higher Institute of International Relations “Raul Roa Garcia” in Habana – Cuba in 2012 and the IV Course for African Diplomats, promoted by the Alexandre Gusmão Foundation of Brazil in Brasilia in 2013.

Ambassador Esmeralda Mendonça actively participated in several works and missions at the Ministry of External Relations (MIREX), highlighting the latest duty, as Coordinator of the Secretariat’s Work at the International Conference on Maritime and Energy Security in 2015, Member for the MIREX Rotation Plan in 2018 and Member of the MIREX Public Tender in 2019.

She was part of the last two Angolan delegations to the 73rd and 74th Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) and was part of the team of International Observers of the Elections in the Federative Republic of Brazil in 2018.

She was also part of the Angolan delegations that participated in the inauguration Ceremony of the President of the United States of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in 2018 and the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, in 2019.

Ambassador Esmeralda Mendonça is married and mother of one child.

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BIOGRAPHIC SUMMARY OF HIS EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR TÉTE ANTÓNIO
MINISTER OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Ambassador Téte António, born on January 22, 1955 in the municipality of Bembe, Province of Uíge, has a Master’s degree in International Economic Relations by the University of Kiev / Ukraine.

He attended courses in Preventive Diplomacy at Columbia University, New York, in Conflict Management, Resolution and Mediation at the Jimmy Carter Center, and Diplomacy at the Cairo Ministry of Foreign Affairs Institute in Egypt, United Nations Law and Practice at New York University, USA.

Before being appointed Minister, he served as Secretary of State for External Relations, Representative of the African Union to the United Nations, in New York, Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the African Union Commission, Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Angola to the United Nations, in New York.

Ambassador Téte António was also a member of the Angolan delegation to the United Nations Security Council (2003-2004), Principal Expert during the Angolan Presidency of the UN Peacebuilding Commission; Adviser to the President of the 59th Session of the UN General Assembly (2004-2005); Director of the Office of the Vice Minister of External Relations (1999-2002); African Union Political Observer to the United Nations Mission for the Organization of a Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) based in El Aiune, Western Sahara from 1997 to 1999; Diplomat at the Embassy of the Republic of Angola in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Permanent Mission to the African Union (1993-1997), Official of the African Union and Specialized Institutions Department of the Africa and Middle East Directorate of the Ministry of External Relations and Employee of IMPORTANG assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

Ambassador Téte António joined several African Union election observation missions and attended several study missions to countries emerged from conflict by the UN Peacebuilding Commission; Participated in several meetings of the UN, African Union, South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Economic Commission of Central African States (ECCAS) and the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).

He speaks fluently and writes Portuguese, English, French, Russian, Kikongo and Lingala.

He co-authored the book entitled: “Angola at the UN Security Council (2003-2004), Experience and Practical Contribution to Conflict Resolution in Africa“.

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BIOGRAPHY OF HIS EXCELLENCY BORNITO DE SOUSA BALTAZAR DIOGO
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

Vice-President of the Republic of Angola, elected in the general elections of 23 August 2017, Bornito de Sousa Baltazar Diogo, was born on 23 July 1953, in Quessua, Malanje Province.

He is the fourth of six children of Catarina Manuel Simão Bento “Katika”, house wife, and of the Reverend Job Baltazar Diogo, former Political Prisoner, Primary School Teacher, linguist in the specialty of Quimbundo-Portuguese and translator of the Holy Bible, from Portuguese to Quimbundo.

He is married to Maria José Rodrigues Ferreira Diogo, he has four (4) daughters.

He did his primary education at the school “Amor e Alegria”, at the Methodist Mission of Quessua, and at the Central United Methodist Church School, in Malanje and Luanda, respectively.

The activity of his father, both as an evangelical preacher and as a political activist and teacher, led him to be in constant change. He was only six (6) years old when he moved to Quipedro, municipality of Ambuíla, Uíge province, where his father had been transferred as Pastor of the United Methodist Church.

In 1965, he moved to Luanda by train, where his father and his uncle, Dr. Luis Micolo, were in fixed residence after serving a prison sentence in the jail of PIDE, the colonial political police.

In the capital, he was admitted to Liceu Salvador Correia for secondary education, which he concludes at the Liceu de Moçâmedes.

He soon joins the fight for national liberation, as a clandestine militant of the then Angola People Liberation Movement (MPLA), in Marçal neighborhood , linked to clandestine student circles connected with Commander STONA, in the region of Kwanza-Norte.

At the time, some historical facts would end up being determinant for the formation of his nationalist conscience: the social convulsions of independence in Congo and the imprisonment of his father and his maternal uncle, Dr. Luís Micolo, lawyer, teacher, musician and distinguished personality of the Catholic Church of Angola.

In December 1970, with Baltazar Diogo, his older brother, he was notified to show up at a colonial police station just after the festive season. His father, Reverend Job Baltazar Diogo, even tried to protest to the colonial authorities, suggesting a “possible misunderstanding”, since his children were underage. It was the last supper in the company of his parents and siblings, until the attainment of the national independence, on 11 November 1975.

Arrested on January 2, 1971 by PIDE-DGS, in the then São Paulo Prison, he is transferred by boat to the Prison of S. Nicolau/Bentiaba, Namibe province, from where he would only be released in May 1974 following the Revolution of April 25, which dictated the fall of the Salazar regime in Portugal.

He has two degrees: one in Social Sciences, from the Escola Superior do Partido (The Higher School of the MPLA Party), and another in Law, from the Agostinho Neto University.

He is a Lawyer and Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law at the Faculties of Law of the Agostinho Neto University and the Catholic University of Angola and co-author, with Prof. Dr. Adérito Correia, of the collection “Angola – Constitutional History”.

He did political-military training at CIR Kalunga, Dolisie/ Loubomo, Republic of Congo, and at CIR Binheco, Maiombe Forest, Cabinda Province, 2nd Political-Military Region, being then transferred to Cabinda Province as Political Commissioner of the Administration and Services Company (CAS), of the 2nd Region Army General Staff.

He has been Political Commissioner of the Angolan Navy since 1976, when this branch of the then Angola People Liberation Armed Forces (FAPLA) was founded on 10 July, and in 1981 he became Deputy Head of the National Political Directorate of FAPLA.

He studied at the Higher Military Officers School of Huambo and General of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), in the Reform.

He was Deputy of the People’s Assembly and then Deputy of the National Assembly (Angolan Parliament), where he chaired the MPLA Parliamentary Group from 2000 to 2010, Deputy of theConstituent Assembly of 2010 and President of the Constitutional Commission.

He chaired the Legal Affairs, Rules and Mandates and Foreign Affairs Committees and was Vice President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific/European Union (ACP/EU) Parity Parliamentary Assembly.

His hobbies are Aviation (he has a Private Pilot License for Aircraft), Municipalities and Cities development and integrated management issues, Computing and new technologies, Recreational Naval pilotage, literature and sport.

He speaks Portuguese and English proficiently, as well as French and Spanish. His mother tongue is Quimbundo.

He served as Minister of Territorial Administration from February 2010 to September 2012 and was reappointed in October 2012.

On August 23, 2017 he was elected Vice-President of the Republic, in the MPLA candidacy led by João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola, and he took office on September 26, of the same year.

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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BIOGRAPHY OF HIS EXCELLENCY JOÃO MANUEL GONÇALVES LOURENÇO
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

Mister João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, was born on March 5, 1954, in Lobito city, province of Benguela, son of the late Sequeira  João Lourenço, nurse of profession, and of the late Josefa Gonçalves Cipriano Lourenço, dressmaker. Married to Ana Afonso Dias Lourenço and father of six born sons.

He has attended primary and secondary school in the province of Bié and in the capital city, at the former Luanda Industrial School and at the Luanda Industrial Institute. From 1978 to 1982 received military training in former Soviet Union and specialized in heavy artillery. He also holds a Master degree in Historic Sciences, in that country. He speaks English, Russian and Spanish fluently.

From August 1974, he has participated in the National Liberation Struggle led by MPLA having concluded his first political-military training at the Centro de Instrução Revolucionária CIR ‘Kalunga’ (Revolutionary Instruction Centre) in the Congo Brazzaville. He has integrated the first MPLA combatants group that entered the national territory in 1974, through Miconge, to reach Cabinda city.

In the eve of Independence, he has participated in Ntó-Iema combats in Cabinda province and other localities, against the invasion of the army of the Republic of Zaire that intended to occupy the territory of that province of Angola. He has also served as a Political Commissioner of the former FAPLA (People´s Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola) in several ranks and as a Political Commissioner of the 2nd Political Military Region of Cabinda province.

During the 1980s of the 20th century, he has participated in several military operations in the centre of the country, namely the provinces of Cuanza Sul, Huambo and Bié. In 1983, he headed the Presidency of the Regional Military Council of the 3rd political Military Region. From 1989 to 1990, he has also served as Chief of the FAPLA’s Political Directorate. Presently, he is an (FAA) Angolan Armed Forces off-duty Three-Star-General.

Since 1985, he has integrated the MPLA Central Committee, became a member of its Political Bureau since 1990, and following the VII MPLA Ordinary Congress, held on 2016, he is elected Vice-President of the MPLA. He had previously performed as 1st Secretary of the Political Bureau and also as Secretary of the MPLA Political Bureau for Information and Economic and Social Sphere.

Concerning governmental functions, at the age of 29, he had been indicated in 1983 to serve as Provincial Commissioner of Moxico, equivalent to Provincial Governor, nowadays. Later on, from 1986 to 1989 as Provincial Commissioner of Benguela. In 2014 by Presidential Decree, he had been appointed as Minister of National Defence until the beginning of the 2017 electoral campaign.

At parliamentary level, Mister João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço was the Chairperson of the MPLA Parliamentary Group, from 1991 to 1998 and afterwards as Chairperson of the National Assembly Constitutional Committee, having performed the functions of First-Vice-President of the National Assembly, from 2003 to 2014.

Mister João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço in his free times enjoys reading, playing chess, horse riding and he is an Information Technologies lover.

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August 17, 2020, Embassy of the Republic of Angola

Courtesy visit by H.E. Ambassador of Democratic Republic of Timor Leste, Ilidio Cimenes da Costa.

July 15, 2020, Tokyo

Signature on 7/15/2020 of the condolence book at the Cote D’Ivoire Embassy, for the death of former Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly

July 20, 2020, Embassy of the Republic of Angola

Ceremony held at the Embassy of the Republic of Angola on July 20, 2020, between H.E. Ambassador Rui Xavier and Mr. Kobayashi of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, on the re-delivery of all documents related to the comprehensive development contract for Namibe Bay, deposited at the Embassy on March 27, 2020.

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