Climate change is already affecting people’s lives and livelihoods in Angola, as well as the Angolan economy. The country is experiencing increasingly severe and frequent climate hazards, including the South’s worst prolonged droughts in decades. Climate change impacts also come with a heavy price tag: climate-related disasters (floods, storms, droughts) …
Luanda — The heavy rains battering across the country have caused huge damages and inundated many houses due to the poor drainage systems of the cities, said on Wednesday, in Luanda, the commander of the National Civil Protection and Fire Service, Bênção Abílio. The commissioner - who was speaking to …
Luanda — Three more people died from electric shock drowning, bringing the death toll from the three-day rains in Luanda to eight. On Monday, two children, aged between three and five years old, drowned in the Belo Monte neighborhood (Cacuaco Municipality), said the spokesman for provincial command of Fire-Fighter Brigade, …
Luanda - An emergency programme with prevention measures for several diseases, especially cholera, is being prepared by the Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in the framework of strengthening the Total National Sanitation Programme led by communities. The event was announced by the Environment minister, Paula …
PATNA: Dermatologists on Sunday stressed on the need to create awareness about leprosy and disintegrate it from other public health programmes. In 2005, India had officially declared to have eliminated leprosy when new cases fell to less than one per 10,000 population. But as per WHO's Global Health Observatory data …
The minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, said last Saturday that the programme - which will count on the contribution of the sectors of Environment, Energy and Water, Finance, Mass Media and Urbanisation - will guarantee, in short term, the reduction of malaria mortality in Angola. The official did not disclose …
The new entity is coordinated by the State Minister and Head of the President’s Civil Office, which also includes the Ministers of National Defense, Interior, Environment, Hotels and Tourism and the President’s aide for Local and Regional Affairs . The presidential order, which sets up the referred Executive Committee, requires …
According to the Presidential Order, published in the Statel Gazette on December 7, the funding aims to boost the economic and social development of the country through the re-launch of agriculture. The diploma, signed by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, is already in force, and it authorizes the …
According to a press release from Provincial Government of Luanda, the preliminary balance points to "some reptiles and other small dead animals". The fire also damaged the local vegetation. So far, "the note states," no case of death of large animals has been reported. The sources added that study conducted …
Luanda — The Hiv/Aids pandemic in Angola is spreading vertiginously, mainly in the provinces of Luanda, Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul, Cuando Cubango and Cunene. The information was disclosed by the executive secretary of the Angola's Aids Service Organisations Network (Anaso), Antonio Coelho. According to António Coelho, the Aids situation in …
Luanda — MORE than 1 200 people have died of malaria since the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in Angola this year. Most of the victims are children under five years of age, mostly in the central Huambo Province. Clementino Sacanombo, Huambo malaria programme supervisor, said the province was experiencing …
The Project that covers exploration of eucalypts, pine and cedar trees is meant to develop new forest fields in perimeters that belonged to the Angola Cellulose and Paper Company (CCPA) in Benguela and Huambo provinces. Speaking to Angop, the director of the undertaking firm Estela da Floresta, Bernardo Freitas, said …
An intense cholera outbreak has killed some 1 562 people in Eastern and Southern Africa since the beginning of the year. The deaths have been recorded from 104 095 outbreaks in Angola, Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Somalia accounts for 75 percent …
Uíge — At least 140 families of Quixicongo neighborhood in the outskirts of Uíge city were made homeless by the last windy rain that hit the region on last Sunday. According to the Quixicongo's chieftain, Simão Estêvão, the rain destroyed over 15 houses, having added that it is progress the …
This study is the first record of the use of animal products in traditional medicine in Angola. Data were obtained by performing interviews with the users of these products who use parts derived from wild mammals to treat 12 diseases. It was found that one or more products that were …
Angola’s civil war caused a massive population movement from rural conflict areas to low-lying coastal zones between 1975 and 2002. More than half of Angola’s 27 million people now live in urban coastal settlements, floodplains and steep ravines vulnerable to climate extremes. Climate related risks are worsening and it is …
GENEVA - The World Health Organization reports some progress is being made in reducing premature deaths from non-communicable diseases. But it says much more needs to be done to save the lives of nearly 40 million people who die every year from preventable causes. In this latest global assessment, the …
Malanje - The Ministry of the Environment plans to create an institute dedicated to the study, management, conservation and protection of the Palanca Negra Gigante (giant sable antelope), announced Tuesday in Malanje, the incumbent minster, Fátima Jardim. The initiative, according to the minister, should be installed in Malanje and will …
Moçâmedes — At least 1500 people in Bibala Municipality, south-western Namibe Province, are since last Saturday benefiting from the entrance into functioning of a new water supply system, built in the ambit of the integrated municipal programme of rural development and fight against poverty. Estimated at 25 million kwanzas, the …
At the event, Susana Martins, the project manager for the EU in Angola, said that the initiative aims to reduce hunger, poverty in the most vulnerable people, food and nutritional insecurity as well as strengthening family and sustainable agriculture in the provinces mostly affected by climate change. After presenting the …
The data were released Tuesday after National Traffic Council meeting chaired by the Vice President of Republic, Manuel Domingos Vicente. The Council’s spokesman, Ambrosio de Lemos, said that the country recorded less 3,950 accidents, less 921 deaths and a decrease of 3,168 wounded in 2016 compared to 2015. The Commissioner-General …
