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 International Business Bank (BNI), acting as Agent Bank, led the Banking Union, which granted fund to the Ministry of Finance by issuing Treasury Bonds for up to 10 years, in the amount of Kwanzas equivalent to USD 400 million, Angop learnt on Monday through a press release. …
Lusaka – The Southern African Development Community is losing an estimated $16-million per month through the rampant smuggling of the Pterocarpus Chrysothrix trees, used for fine timber and medicine mostly in the Far East Asia. This financial loss and threat posed to the slow growing species has prompted Zambian President …
Lubango - At least 1,178 people died of malaria over the last 15 months in southern Huila province. The information was released by the health authorities in the province, saying the above figure was part of 175,622 people admitted in medical units in the province. According to a report that …
Luanda - A detailed evaluation of the draft law that authorizes the incorporation of the National Society of Agro-Minerals, S.A., is being done on Wednesday by the Cabinet Council, under the guidance of the President of the Republic, José Eduardo dos Santos. It is a draft law presented by the …
The information was released recently in Benguela by the local nutritional programme supervisor, Flora Vanda, who mentioned 129 cases in equal period last year. Speaking to Angop, Flora Vanda said a large percentage of deaths was owed to patients reaching the hospitals too late and the lack of healing drugs …
The promise is from the Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, during the visit made on the spot, by the MPLA candidate for the President of the Republic, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço. The Cabinet minister also confirmed that the constraints that were conditioning the speed in the work, …
This was said Wednesday in Luanda by Zambian Agriculture minister, Dora Siliya, while speaking to Angop at International Airport shortly before leaving Luanda at the end of her three-day visit to Angola. The minister said that a delegation from her country will come to Angola to launch and define the …
The data were released Wednesday by director general of National Institute for Combat AIDS, Lucia Furtado. Lucia Furtado disclosed the data at a lecture on "Prevention, Treatment, Support and Reduction of HIV / AIDS impact on Families and Children", addressed to students of the Military Technical Institute (ISTM). Quoting data …
The minister was speaking to the press after behind closed door meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and plenipotentiary representative of Federal District of the Far East, Yuri Trutnev. The official said that the project is running as planned, exceeding 80% of execution. José Carvalho da Rocha …
Speaking at the presentation session of the electricity sector memorandum to the Bié province government, he assured that the construction of the new thermal power station will allow to reducing dependence on the supply of energy from the province of Huambo. According to the minister, the government will also recover …
Luanda - More than 1.4 million people in Angola, including many children, have been affected by a "chronic drought" that has increased the risk of disease, a UN report said Wednesday. Seven southern regions of Angola are affected, with the three border provinces of Cunene, Namibe and Huila hit the …
American's stocks of yellow fever vaccines are set to run out this summer, the country's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned. In the body's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report issued on Friday (28 April), it said it expected "a complete depletion of yellow fever vaccine available for …
The fall armyworm - which decimates fields as it marches ever forward - has spread to Angola as the caterpillar eats its way through southern Africa, a U.N. agency said. With Angola the latest country affected, only Lesotho and island nations in the region have escaped the pest, which devours …
Angola’s energy sector is set to augment as the government has approved a 18MW hydropower plant to be built in the northwestern region. The US-based clean energy company, Dominovas Energy Corporation has secured the rights to finance, build and operate the hydropower plant worth $90 million. According to a company …
Nigeria’s crude oil production fell by 156,900 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.269 million bpd in March, from 1.426mbpd recorded in February. Consequently, the country lost its status as Africa’s top oil producer to Angola, according to latest data from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). With the cumulative …
VILLAGERS in the Oshana region affected by the flash floods from Angola, also known as efundja, will have to wait a while longer before they can access health facilities and other amenities because water levels in their surroundings remain high. About seven villages in the Ongwediva constituency have been cut …
Democratic Republic of Congo's worst yellow fever outbreak in decades has ended two months after Angola declared its epidemic to be over, following a massive UN-backed vaccine campaign, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. No new cases have been reported in either country in six months, just over a year …
Luanda — A recycling plant dubbed "Angola Recicla", to value the solid waste, previously taken to landfills, was inaugurated on Monday in Luanda by the Environment minister, Fátima Jardim. Located at the Special Economic Zone, the factory will also serve to preserve and protect the quality the environment and create …
Ongoing deforestation is a pressing, global environmental issue with direct impacts on climate change, carbon emissions, and biodiversity. There is an intuitive link between economic development and overexploitation of natural resources including forests, but this relationship has proven difficult to establish empirically due to both inadequate data and convoluting geo-climactic …
Luanda - Angola on Friday declared the end of a yellow fever outbreak that killed at least 400 people, after an emergency United Nations vaccination campaign covering 25 million people. The outbreak erupted in December last year in the slums of the capital Luanda, spreading to 16 of Angola's 18 …
