African Union (AU) Commissioner Josefa Correia Sacko reaffirmed in Harare, Zimbabwe, the need for the continent to develop human capacities and innovative practices to accelerate the implementation and scale-up of successful models to achieve resilient agri-food systems in Africa. According to a document from this African organization, sent today to Angop, Josefa Sacko was speaking […]
Month: October 2024
Suzana de Abreu elected first provincial secretary of the MPLA
The party’s IX Extraordinary Provincial Conference held this Wednesday in the city of Cabinda, elected Suzana de Abreu to the position of first provincial secretary of the MPLA in this northernmost region of the country. Elected with 99.2 percent of the votes, Suzana de Abreu replaces Mara Quiosa (current governor of Cuanza-sul), who led the […]
Angola has a plan to deal with FATF monitoring
Angola has an institutional action plan to deal with inclusion on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) monitoring list, the director-general of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Gilberto Capessa, reported this Wednesday in Luanda. The official was speaking to the press at the end of the meeting of the Supervision and Coordination Committee of the […]
SIC destroys cannabis cultivation field
The Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) in Lunda-Norte, destroyed today, Wednesday, a two-hectare cannabis cultivation field, known as Liamba, in the municipality of Xá-muteba. According to the SIC spokesperson in Lunda-Norte, Graciano Lumanhe, the action is the result of a micro-operation carried out by agents of this body, in that municipality, which is more than 500 […]
Chess: José Ribeiro wins ANGOP tournament – 49 years
José Ribeiro, from the Casa da Cultura da Assaca de Chess school in Sumbe, Cuanza-Sul province, won, this Wednesday, the first edition of the ‘ANGOP – 49 years’ tournament, with three points. In second and third place were Osvaldo Henriques and Erickson Henriques, who scored two points each. The tournament, played in quick matches, had […]