Africa-Press – Angola. The Presidential Decree that determines an additional remuneration of thirty thousand kwanzas, starting from the 1st of June, for public servants and administrative agents of the general public service regime, marked the political news of the last seven days.
The document establishes, on the other hand, that staff working in higher education teaching careers and scientific researchers are entitled to additional remuneration.
Another highlight is the VI Ordinary Meeting of the MPLA Central Committee, which recommended to the Executive the intensification of actions to facilitate the export of energy surplus to the countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
According to the governing body of the party in power in Angola, there is still a need to grant guarantees of access to financing to support the implementation of structuring projects.
At the opening of the work, the president of the MPLA, João Lourenço, defended greater investment, preferably private, in the field of transport and distribution of electrical energy.
During the speech, the Executive Branch holder reaffirmed his commitment to the construction and rehabilitation of essential infrastructures for the country’s development.
It is also worth highlighting the signing of several decrees promoting, dismissing, appointing, waiving from active military service to retirement and transitioning to a situation of temporary inactivity, general officers, commissioners of the National Police and admirals, by the President of the Republic and Commander- in-Chief of the Angolan Armed Forces, João Lourenço.
On his weekly agenda, highlight the audiences that the Head of State granted to the special envoy of the Liberian president, Sheick Al-Moustapha, and to the minister of Foreign Affairs and African Integration and Ivoirians Abroad, Leon Adom Kacou Houadja.
Furthermore, the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, paid tribute to basketball player Ângelo Victoriano, who died on Saturday, in Luanda, due to illness.
On the other hand, the political news highlighted the II ordinary session of the National Commission for the Fight against HIV/AIDS and Major Endemic Diseases (CNLS-GE), led by the vice-president of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, where it was informed that Angola registered , in 2023, sixty-eight thousand and 268 cases of tuberculosis, with 503 deaths, 507 fewer than in the previous year.
Another focus is on farewell greetings from the Apostolic Nuncio in Angola, Giovanni Gaspari, to the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, after representing Pope Francis for three and a half years in the country.
The president of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, announced, in a message to her Zimbabwean counterpart, Jacob Francis Nzwidamilima, on the 44th anniversary of this country’s independence, the strengthening of cooperation between the two parliaments.
In another letter, he highlighted the role of Dom Giovanni Gaspari in strengthening relations of cooperation and friendship between the Angolan parliament and the Vatican.
They also echoed the statements made by the Attorney General of the Republic, Hélder Pitta Groz, that the unconstitutionality of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the “$500 million case” “does not discourage” investigations or the fight against corruption and the recovery of assets, rather on the contrary, it “strengthens the way in which the Public Prosecutor’s Office operates”.
The week just ended was also marked by the 1st Session of the Grand Mixed Cooperation Commission Angola Côte d’Ivoire, where several instruments were signed in Luanda to strengthen cooperation in various areas.
These are protocols that will raise the level of relations in the Interior, Territorial Administration, Tourism, Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, Health, Culture, Environment, Higher Education and Education sectors.
Emphasis on the Extended Consultative Council of the Ministry of the Interior, the responsible minister, Eugênio Laborinho, announced that sixteen thousand various crimes were registered in the first quarter of this year, two thousand 77 fewer than in the similar period.
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