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 Government of Japan has donated USS 103,088, to support a water purification system in Quindenuco in Uige Province, ANGOP has learned. According to a press release from the Japanese embassy that reached ANGOP, the donation is in favor of local Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Angolan Action in …
Luanda — The National Environment Quality Plan for 2015-2020 designed to improve and standardise the characteristics of the air, water and soil was reviewed on Tuesday in Luanda. This was during the 13th session of the Cabinet Council's Real Economy Commission chaired by the vice president, Manuel Vicente. Speaking to …
Londuimbali — At least 36 new cases of HIV/AIDS were diagnosed from January until the first half of November this year, in the commune of Alto-Hama Hospital, 66 kilometers north off Huambo city, compared to 15 recorded in the same previous period. Speaking to ANGOP, the head of the Centre …
Ana Paulino, a 40-year-old street vendor in Luanda, balances plastic cans of water four times as heavy as a bowling ball on top of her head every morning and night for quarter-mile trips to the nearest well. That’s a burden shared by many women in the capital of Angola, sub-Saharan …
Luanda — About half of the Angolan population has come out of the absolute poverty line, said Wednesday in Luanda the head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos. The president who quoted independent studies, was delivering a state-of-the-Nation message at the opening of the 3rd Session of the National Assembly's …
Luanda — The Environment Ministry, together with the ruling party women wing (OMA) signed Wednesday in Luanda a cooperation accord for the implementation of a project aimed at the integration of rural women in environmental matters. The cooperation accord was signed by the minister of Environment, Fátima Jardim, and by …
Angola and southern neighbor Namibia signed an accord to manage the Cuvelai river basin whose waters are shared by the two southwest African countries, according to state-controlled Jornal de Angola. Two-thirds of the 150,000-square-kilometer (58,000 square mile) watershed is in Namibia, a land marked by the Kalahari desert that’s one …
Angola, sub-Sahara Africa’s third-largest economy, is targeting potable water supplies to its provincial capitals by the end of 2017, Jornal de Angola reported, citing Water and Energy Minister Joao Baptista Borges. All residents in the 17 provincial capitals outside Luanda, the nation’s capital in the province of the same name, …
Angola plans to spend $139 million to upgrade the water distribution centers and build new reservoirs in the capital, Luanda, Jornal de Angola reported, citing Energy and Water Minister Joao Baptista Borges. The first phase of the project is due to be completed next year, with the rest a year …
NIGERIANS are now living longer by eight years even as coronary (ischaemic) heart disease, lower respiratory infections (such as pneumonia) and stroke top the list of 20 major causes of premature deaths globally. According to the World Health Statistics 2014 published at the weekend by the World Health Organisation (WHO), …
Spells of drought in southern African this year have hit agricultural output and hurt economic growth in countries such as Zambia and Angola, underscoring the lingering importance of farming to the resource-rich region's prosperity. Cutting their 2013 economic growth estimates, both oil producing Angola and copper producer Zambia have cited …
Government accused of playing down the crisis, which has affected 1.8 million people, to protect its economic reputation The Angolan government has been accused of being in denial over a drought that has affected 1.8 million people because the crisis threatens to tarnish the country's image as a booming economy. …
Floods in the Angolan capital, Luanda, have killed at least nine people And left four missing, the state news agency Angop reported on Sunday, citing a local government official. The official told Angop the deaths were caused by destruction to houses during heavy rain on Saturday. He said some of …
More than 6 million people across Angola, Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe are at risk of severe food shortages because of repeated cycles of drought and flooding, the global humanitarian body IFRC said on Monday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said the crisis was passing largely …
The CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) and its partners in India, Angola, and Ethiopia have led successful social mobilization efforts to reach difficult-to-access populations critical for polio eradication. These include extremely poor rural and urban communities, ethnic and religious minorities who resist immunizing their children, and others such as newborns, …
Five countries in southern Africa have joined forces to launch a research centre that will work on combating climate change in the region. South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia signed a declaration on Wednesday to base the initiative in the Namibian capital Windhoek. The Southern African Science Service Centre …
Ahead of the World Bank's Spring Meetings here this week, government ministers from almost 40 developing countries are meeting with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UK International Development Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell, Chair of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation HRH the Prince of …
The level of hunger worldwide has dropped in recent years but 26 countries still face extremely dangerous food shortages and are threatened by rising prices, a major report said Tuesday. The Global Hunger Index, released by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), measures food insecurity. Its level has …
In the first week of August, the Angolan police arrested radio journalist Adao Tiago for reporting on a bizarre wave of mass fainting. Since April, over 800 people, mostly teenagers, have fainted after complaining of sore throats and eyes, shortness of breath and coughs. Angola’s interior minister Sebastiao Martins claims …