Africa-Press – Angola. The city of Huambo hosts, on Thursday, the central event of the celebrations of the 22nd anniversary of Peace and National Reconciliation, which is marked under the motto “4th of April, together for the inclusive growth of the Country”.
With a stage in the Osvaldo de Jesus Serra Van-Dúnem multipurpose pavilion, inside this city, the event will be presided over by the Minister of State and Head of the Military House of the President of the Republic, Francisco Pereira Furtado, representing the Head of State, João Lourenço.
In the press release, this Tuesday, the Government of the province of Huambo considers the 4th of April as a date that marked the turning of a dark and bitter page in the history of a people, whose disagreement with the belligerent forces of they once prevented it from growing and growing a Nation permanently in struggle.
However, as a result of common sense and the highest patriotic sense, the country achieved Peace, with agreements obtained first in the city of Luena, province of Moxico and then in Namibe, with the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding Complementary to the Luena Agreements, have lasted until the present date, thus allowing the development and modernization of a prosperous, united and indivisible Angola.
“As we celebrate the 22nd anniversary of Peace and National Reconciliation, the Angolan Executive, led by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, reiterates its firm commitment to continue materializing State policies, aimed at the economic and social well-being of the people Angolan and do everything to preserve and maintain this hard-won achievement”, says the statement.
Likewise, according to the document, the Executive reiterates the appreciation of the brave freedom fighters and veterans of the Fatherland who, with their selfless dedication and tenacity, broke through the trenches of struggle, the barriers of incomprehension and ideological distance, placing a end to military hostilities.
According to the program, the event will be preceded by the lighting of the Facho da Paz and the laying of the wreath in Largo Doutor António Agostinho Neto.
The anniversary marks 22 years, since on April 4, 2002, the military leadership of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and the former UNITA forces (FALA) initialed the Luena Memorandum of Understanding, complementary to the Lusaka Agreements, putting an end 27 years of armed conflict.
Huambo City
The city of Huambo, inaugurated by the then governor-general of Angola, the Portuguese general José Mendes Ribeiro Norton de Matos, on September 21, 1912, following an administrative order issued by ordinance no. 1040, dated August 8 of the same year , is the capital of the province with the same name, located in the Central Plateau of Angola, with just over two million 700 thousand inhabitants, distributed in 11 municipalities.
Each of these municipalities has a specific and determining weight in the social and economic development of the region, whose labor characteristics are more inclined towards agro-industry.
Considered, in the past, the living city of Angola, the name of the city is due to the excellent hunter Wambo Kalunga, from the region of Seles, province of Cuanza-Sul, who settled, in the 15th century, in the territory of Caála, in this province, in the areas of Ussombo, Makolo and Kondombe.
Named New Lisbon in 1928, it regained its previous name after National Independence, proclaimed on November 11, 1975.
The city of Huambo was a hub of economic, industrial and agricultural development and a center of excellence in the academic field, particularly in the area of agricultural and veterinary research.
The municipality of Huambo, one of 11 in the province with the same name, has an estimated population of 934 thousand 127 inhabitants, distributed across three communes (Calima, Chipipa and Sede, the latter with six sectors, in a total of 433 neighborhoods).
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