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September 28, 2019
Prince Harry has met with the President of Angola as he continues his solo trip across the country which his mother Diana toured during an anti-landmine campaign more than 20 years ago.
The Duke of Sussex had an audience with leader João Lourenço at the presidential palace in Luanda, Angola on sixth day of his royal tour of Africa with wife Meghan and baby Archie.
Harry will later be visiting a hospital to see the work of a project spearheaded by the country’s first lady, Ana Dias Lourenco who he met yesterday.
The project focuses on preventing the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mothers to their babies in a country where high fertility, a young population and lack of awareness are driving infection rates up.
The Prince will move onto Malawi tomorrow, before joining back up with Meghan in South Africa on the tenth day.
Prince Harry has met with the President of Angola as he continues his solo trip across the country which his mother Diana toured by more than 20 years ago.
The Prince will move onto Malawi tomorrow, before joining back up with Meghan in South Africa on the tenth day.
Earlier yesterday the Duke of Sussex walked through a minefield in Dirico, Angola, during a visit to see the work of landmine clearance charity the Halo Trust.
Harry’s mother Diana visited a minefield in Angola in January, 1997. The Princess of Wales visited Huambo to bring global attention to the crisis of landmines and the people whose lives were being destroyed.
Like all those visiting the site, which is being cleared by The Halo Trust, the same landmine clearance charity that worked with Dianna, Harry had been given a safety briefing and told not stray of the cleared lanes, touch anything or run.
Speaking afterwards the prince said: ‘Landmines are an unhealed scar of war. By clearing the landmines we can help this community find peace, and with peace comes opportunity.’
He and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, also posted a message on their official Instagram page in which they honoured his mother’s work which ‘helped change the course of history’.
They added: ‘The Duke is humbled to be visiting a place and a community that was so special to his mother, and to recognise her tireless mission as an advocate for all those she felt needed her voice the most, even if the issue was not universally popular.’
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September 27, 2019
Huambo – Prince Harry acknowledged Friday in Huambo Angolans’ willingness and determination in the demining process, which has enabled national authorities to take safe steps to rebuild the country and improve the quality of life of citizens.
Speaking on the 28 May Avenue, where Princess Diana witnessed the start of the demining process in 1997, the Duke of Sussex considered demining a very difficult and life-threatening task.
“But that has to be done, because more than 60 million people continue to live under threat and risk of landmines … and you cannot turn your back neither give up the work that is being done,” he encouraged.
He presented as an example the fact that 22 years ago, in the same place, there was a minefield, which today is totally transformed, which, in his opinion, gives another impact to the life of the communities.
He also recalled that in January 1997, Princess Diana was in Angola, as a volunteer for the International Red Cross, having driven a push to the demining process, but there are still over a thousand minefields in the country to be clarified.
“I wish my mother was alive, because I am sure she would appreciate the transformation of this place, as well the commitment of the Angolans to have the country free from landmines by 2025, ” he said.
Prince Harry reiterated the British Royal House’s commitment to continue supporting the demining process in the communities, to allow the free movement of people and goods throughout the national territory.
On the occasion, the governor of Huambo province, Joana Lina, recalled that in 1997, as Secretary of State for the Promotion and Women’s Development she had the privilege of receiving Princess Diana.
Within the perimeter of more than 10 square meters visited by Princess Diana, currently the 28 of May Avenue, more than 28 antipersonnel mines and 313 explosive explosives were collected and destroyed, in a demining process carried out by the HALO Trust, which ended in 2005.
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Sandra Tigica tragically lost her leg, was pictured sitting on Diana’s knee and said that the meeting made her feel ‘complete’. Harry decided to end his moving trip to Angola by meeting Sandra, who is now 38.
The princess sat under a fig tree in an orthopaedic workshop in Luanda in 1997, after she walked through a cleared minefield to raise awareness of the use of weapons.
Ms Thijika said: “I think I met Princess Diana on a Tuesday, she came to the centre and wanted to see how a change of prosthetic limb was done.
“At the time I was very small, I was a very tiny girl and they started measuring my knee so they could see how a prosthetic would fit.
“Princess Diana was watching the process and she started crying as she watched me getting measured for a new prosthetic.
“After they measured my knee we went outside and sat by a fig tree and she was speaking to me and I felt very happy, I felt very complete to have the attention of a princess.”
Prince Harry, 35, today revealed the trip to Angola had been “emotional” as he made a speech in front of a tree named after his mother on Princess Diana Street.
He told crowds: “It has been quite emotional retracing my mother’s steps along this street 22 years on and to see the transformation that has taken place from an unsafe and desolate area into a vibrant community of local businesses.”
And he said he believed she would have kept going with her work in raising awareness around landmines – with 60million people still living in fear.
He told crowds: “I wonder if she were still alive today if that would be the case. I’m pretty sure she would have seen it through.”
And in a poignant moment, the new dad took a moment to sit under the Diana tree as he visited Huambo. The royal had earlier paid touching tribute to his mum as he recreated a similar photo in Dirico earlier this morning before remotely detonating a landmine.
This morning, Prince Harry donned body armour and a protective visor as he visited the de-mining site in Dirico, Angola.
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Minister Manuel Augusto, defended today in New York that “finding solutions to conflicts in Africa is not enough. It is necessary to identify the root causes that generate this instability ”. The Minister was speaking at the AU Peace and Security Council High Level Meeting.
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The young Angolan environmentalist, Adjany Costa, is part of a group of young people who received, on September 26, in New York, awards for their commitment and dedication to the protection of the Environment. The group is composed of seven young people, from Angola, Philippines, Brazil, Nepal, Russia, Lebanon and the United States, winners of the “Champions of the Earth” award 2019.
The “Champions of the Earth” Award, an initiative of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), was presented during a ceremony organized for this purpose, in one of the prestigious rooms in New York, during the week of the 74th UN General Assembly.
Attended the Ceremony, His Excellencies Ambassadors, Maria de Jesus Ferreira, Permanent Representative to the UN, in New York, and Sianga Abilio, Ambassador of Angola to Kenya and Permanent Representative of Angola to the UN, Nairobi.
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His Highness, Prince Harry, landed on the afternoon of Thursday, September 26, 2019, in Dirico, starting a work visit of about 16 hours to the municipality of the Province of Cuando Cubango.
During his stay in the Municipality of Dirico, Prince Harry will learn about the demining process and its benefits for the local population, as well as for the protection and conservation of biodiversity.
Upon his arrival, the Prince was received by the Provincial Governor, Júlio Bessa, who works since yesterday, Wednesday, in that locality in the supervision of His Highness’s accommodation conditions.
According to his work schedule, Prince Harry leaves the Municipality of Dirico (Cuando Cubango) at mid-morning on Friday, bound for Huambo Province.
Social Communication Office of the Cuando Cubango Provincial Government, on 26 September 2019.
Minister Manuel Augusto participated today, in New York, at the roundtable discussion on Trade and Investment in Africa, organizes by Deputy Secretary of State of the United States of America, John J Sullivan.
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