Africa-Press – Angola. The working visit of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, to Malanje province is one of the highlights of last week’s political news.
During two days in that part of the north of the country, the President found out about the operation and the level of production of the Quizenga Lutete farm, a project of the Angolan Executive aimed at the production of corn, soybeans and the professional training of young producers, budgeted at more of 100 thousand US dollars.
As part of the visit, the Executive Power Holder was at Biocom where he got in touch with the factory’s production chains, from cutting sugar cane, through the sugar and ethanol processing area, to sugar storage.
Also in Malanje, he met with the local government, having received information about the internal “life” of the province, and at the end he announced that social infrastructures will be built in Malanje, with emphasis on a general hospital, a centrality with more than 2,500 homes, and a Higher Institute of Agronomy, the latter in the municipality of Cacuso.
He made it known that the Executive will also invest in the construction of hospital units at primary and secondary level in the remaining municipalities of the province.
The President of the Republic visited the Feira do Campo de Malanje 2023, an exhibition on the agricultural potential of the 14 municipalities in the province, where he received detailed information on the level of production in those locations and the process of resuming cotton production in Cunda-dia -Base.
Following work in the province, but now in the country’s capital (Luanda), the Chief Executive dismissed the deputy governor of Malanje for the Political, Social and Economic Sector, Domingos Manuel Eduardo.
Still in the presidential domain, the week’s news featured the audiences granted by the Head of State to the apostolic nuncio appointed to Pakistan, Dom Germano Penemote, of Angolan nationality, and the president of the Board of Directors of National Geographic, Jill Tiefenthaler.
With the priest, appointed by Pope Francis as nuncio last June, the President of the Republic spoke about matters linked to the religious mission he will begin in Pakistan, while with Jill Tiefenthaler he addressed issues related to studies on the potential of the River Basin. Okavango River.
During the period in question, the stay in the country of the Attorney General of the Republic of Mozambique, Beatriz Buchili, who, among other activities, was received by the President of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, with whom she discussed aspects relating to the contribution of the Angolan Parliament for the Mozambican judicial sector
During the week, UNITA announced that it is considering suspending its participation in the Commission for the Implementation of the Reconciliation Plan in Memory of the Victims of Political Conflicts (CIVICOP).
In a communication made in Luanda, the party leader, Adalberto Costa Júnior, explained that the intention results from an alleged “disregard for the CIVICOP regulations and the objectives that were the basis of its creation” and defended the creation of a truth commission and reconciliation.
The last seven days were also marked by activities, at the highest level, across borders, with the participation, in Equatorial Guinea, of the Angolan statesman, João Lourenço, in the Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC), which suspended the organization’s Gabon, until it returns to normal constitutional order.
Held in the Ecuadorian town of Djibloho, within the scope of the Central African Peace and Security Council (COPAX), the summit was called following the coup d’état that took place in Gabon, on 30 August, which deposed the elected President, Ali Bongo Ondinga.
The participants at the summit decided to temporarily transfer the headquarters of ECCAS to Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea, until the reestablishment of constitutional order in Gabon.
For her part, the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, represented the country at the African Climate Summit, in Nairobi, Kenya, where she defended the promotion of a fairer and more balanced global partnership, within the framework of the challenges of changes climate.
Speaking at the forum, Esperança da Costa stated that investments in climate projects in Africa benefit Member States and contribute to global climate stability.
He considered, however, the determination of the continent’s countries as “key to success in combating climate change”.
After Angola’s participation in the adoption, by consensus, of the Nairobi Declaration, the leader reiterated the country’s commitment to fulfilling the new African agenda that will be submitted to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention – COP28, taking place in December nearby, in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
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