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Angola Govt Engaged in Strategies Connecting Country to ICTs
Luanda - The minister of Science and Technology, Maria C'ndida Pereira Teixeira, said Friday that the Angolan Executive continue to implement the strategy connecting the country, in order to turn the information and communication technologies (Internet and broad band)' goals into reality. The Cabinet minister said so at the opening of series of lectures, ahead of the 2nd edition of ...
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Angola Oil Minister Stresses Global Development Related to Energy
Luanda - The global development necessarily depends on the supply and use of energy, said Friday in Luanda the Oil minister, Botelho de Vasconcelos. The Cabinet minister, who was speaking at the opening of the International Conference on Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development, also said that this requires not only the balance between supply and demand for the product, but also, and ...
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Angola Prosecutors Told to Perform Task With Strictness
Malanje - The Attorney General João Maria Moreira de Sousa, has told the magistrates of Public Prosecutor's Office to perform their tasks with rigor, with a view to safeguard the interests of the State. The magistrate launched the appeal Friday in Quessuam locality, 12 km from the capital of the northern Malanje province. Addressing the closing ceremony of the 8th Consultative ...
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Angola Culture Relaunches Cooperation With Unesco
Luanda - The Ministry of Culture and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) relaunched in Luanda, the cooperation program in the sector. The definition of Angola/Unesco Cooperation Programme, including scientific knowledge and socio-cultural development in the field, was the central theme of the meeting chaired by the minister of Culture, Rosa Cruz e ...
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Angola Good Harvest Expected in 20122013 Campaign
Menongue - The minister of Agriculture, Pedro Canga, said Thursday, in Menongue city, province of Kuando Kubango, ensured that the 2012/2013 campaign will be better compared to the 2011/2013 agricultural year, with the forecast of good harvests of several crops planted. The Cabinet minister , who gave this information when speaking at the opening of the 1st Consultative Council of the Ministry ...
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Angola Sending of Ambassador to Boosts Bilateral Ties - Diplomat
Ethiopia may soon send an ambassador to Luanda after having the consent by the Angolan authorities, which will lead to a more direct work as part of the relaunch of bilateral cooperation. This was said Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by the Angolan ambassador to the African Union (AU), Arcanjo do Nascimento. Speaking on the state of bilateral relations, the diplomat explained that actions ...
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Angola Minea Runs International Conference
Luanda - Energy and Water Ministry (Minea) will hold on 25-28 September in Luanda an International conference and fair on Energy and Water. The event takes place ahead of the meeting of ministers of Water of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), said MINEA in its note sent to Angop Friday. The meeting that is taking place at the Convention centre of Talatona gathers national ...
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Angola UCCLA Approves Report Accounts for 2013
Praia - Members of the Union of Capital Cities of Portuguese Language (UCCLA) who are attending the 29the General Assembly running since Thursday in Praia city, Cape Verde, have approved the report and accounts for 2013. This is contained in note released by the Organisation and delivered to Angop. According to the sources, the meeting of Executive Commission of UCCLA, directed by Luanda ...
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Angola Short Circuit Blamed for Mirex Building Fire
A short circuit caused by fluctuating electricity has been blamed for the fire that broke out at the Office of the Foreign Affairs minister, Georges Rebelo Chikoti, on Friday morning. The deputy chief of the Fire Department, Wilson Baptista, released the information Friday in Luanda. According to him, the fire partially destroyed some property. In the fight to put out the fire which lasted ...
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Angola AngolaU.S Photo Exhibition Closes
Houston - The week long photo exhibition held at the Houston Intercontinental University as part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Angola and the United States of America closed on Thursday. The exhibition with over 100 photographs comprised panels portraying the evolution of diplomatic relations between the two nations, starting from the accreditation ...
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Angola Daily Production of Eggs Estimated At 800000 Units
Menongue - Agriculture minister Pedro Canga last Thursday in Menongue City, south-eastern Kuando Kubango Province, said that the country's daily production of eggs is estimated at 800,000 units, with the possibility of increasing to 1.500 by the end of the year. According to the minister, who was speaking at the opening of the First Broad Consultative Council of the Agriculture Ministry, ...
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Angola Interior Minister Appeals for Citizens Commitment to Fighting Crime
Lubango - The minister of the Interior, ngelo de Barros Veiga Tavares, on Thursday in Lubango City, southern Huila Province, urged governmental organs and local citizens to collaborate closely with the new delegate of the Interior Ministry in the fight against crime. Speaking at a ceremony organised to present the new provincial delegate of the Interior Ministry, who is also the local ...
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Angola Vice President of Cubas Cabinet Council in Luanda
Luanda - The vice president of the Cuban Council of Ministers, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, is since Friday morning in Luanda for an eight days official visit to Angola, as part of the effort to have cooperation between the two countries reinforced. Ricardo Ruiz was welcomed on arrival at Luanda's "4 de Fevereiro" International Airport by Angolan Foreign minister, Georges Rebelo ...
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Cameroon FAO Gets Programming Unit For Cameroon
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) now has a programming unit for its intervention in Cameroon for the next five years. The document was endorsed in a workshop in Yaounde on Wednesday May 15 chaired by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jean Claude Eko'o Akoufane. The document is a guide for the organisation to improve its methods of ...
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Angola Coach Envisages Expansion of Hockey After World Cup
Luanda - The holding of the 41st World Rink Hockey Championship, scheduled for 20-28 September in Angola, may boost this sport countrywide, judging by the pronouncements made by provincial officials, said to ANGOP in Luanda the coach Antonio Gaspar. Speaking in an interview last Wednesday, the Portuguese coach reminded that the provincial governors are among the first people to defend that the ...
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Rwanda Best Schools in Reading and Writing Culture Scoop Awards
APE Rugunga has come first in a reading and writing competition that took place in 17 schools countrywide. Other top performers were Petit Seminaire Ndera, Lycee Notre Dame de Cîteaux, Christ-Roi Nyanza and HVP Gatagara. During an award ceremony held on Thursday, each of them received a Kindle e-book reader containing more than 400 e-books and other school material such as calculators and ...
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Cameroon Govt Lobbies For Justice Asuagbors Re-election at AU Human Rights Commission
The Minister of External Relations, Prof. Pierre Moukouko Mbonjo on May 15, 2013 presented Cameroonian born Justice Lucy Asuagbor to some African diplomats in Yaounde as Cameroon lobbies for her re-election as African Union (AU) Commissioner for Human and People's Rights of the African Union. She is Cameroon's candidate to the esteemed position for which elections are due May 23, 2013 ...
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Rwanda RGB to Use Sports to Entrench Governance
The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi was a result of bad governance, and to fight genocide ideology, Rwandans must promote principles and values of good governance. The Deputy CEO of Rwanda Governance Board, Fatuma Ndangiza, said this is the best way to achieve a just and free society. Ndangiza was speaking during a news briefing on Wednesday to explain a new initiative by RGB to work closely ...
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Cameroon Preparations For 20th May Celebrations Gather Steam in South West
The people of the South West are mobilising to celebrate the 41st edition of the National Day come Monday, 20 May 2013 on the theme; "The Army And the Nation, Working Together Towards Meeting Security Challenges for an Emerging Nation." Committees have been holding meetings to give the event the significance it deserves. In the South West Regional capital Buea, the Governor Mr. ...
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Cameroon Misty Haze Looms over Resumption of Professional League
The mist is yet to dissipate over the resumption of the championship this weekend. Though the president of the Professional League, Pierre Semengue and the association of elite club presidents jointly signed a communique scheduling the resumption of the championship for the weekend running from May 18 to 19, it is not certain whether the matches are going to take place. The problem this time is ...
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Rwanda Kisementi - the Shoppers Paradise
Kisimenti or Chez Lando as many folks like to call it is a fast-growing neighborhood in Remera, Gasabo District. It is famous for its many restaurants and bars with some of the establishments open 24 hours, 7 days a week. This vibrant business hub starts with Chez Lando (the hotel and popular restaurant), and slowly transforms as you move towards the Amahoro Stadium to Kimironko and Giporo, ...
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Kenya Swiss national decries high bail terms in porn case
court in Mombasa with luring 11 Kenyan women into prostitution has moved to the High Court to challenge the Sh1 million bond slapped on him on ...
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Kenya Kidero promises to work with Government
Speaking in his office at City Hall, Mr Kidero said he is prepared and anxious to co-operate with Jubilee's central administration despite being popularly elected on the opposition's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) ...
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Bob Marleys call to contemporary Africa
Gregory Mandizvidza is an illustrator in Zimbabwe. This is his tribute to the Jamaican reggae singer and guitarist Bob Marley on the occasion of his death anniversary. The musician died on 11 May ...
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Kerry to visit Middle East Africa in late May
US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to visit the Middle East and Africa later this month, the State Department announced on Friday.On May 21, Kerry will visit Muscat, the capital of Oman, and meet with senior Omani officials on a range of bilateral and regional issues, the department said in a statement.On May 22, the top US diplomat will visit Amman, the capital of Jordan, to meet ...
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Three major African airlines to launch new regional player
West and central Africa may soon have a regional airline to connect the countries of the region and feed the three largest airlines in Africa, especially South African Airways, which has dominance on the continent, although it has indicated it will not provide financial support to such a venture.
There are exciting plans afoot in the African aviation industry the continent’s three largest airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines, considering the establishment of a regional airline in central and West Africa that would feed the larger airlines on loner routes or what they call ‘truck routes’. Read more
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