06/October/2007
President`s 65th Birthday Congratulation Messages Continue Flowing
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Messages of congratulation to the head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, on his 65th birthday on August 28, continue reaching Angop.
In a message sent to the head of State, Angolan ambassador to Guinea Bissau, Brito Sozinho, says ...

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Premier Receives San Tomean Government Chief
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Angolan prime minister, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, and the San Tomean government chief, Tomé Vera Cruz, Monday in Luanda held an informal meeting believed to have focussed on the relations between the two countries...

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Angolan Citizens Should Play Active Role in Economic Growth Process
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Angola’s assistant minister of the prime minister, Aguinaldo Jaime defended Friday, here, a pro-active role of the citizen in the economic growth process underway in the country.
The official stressed that in this phase in which the ...

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Cuba: Angolan Statesman Advocates New Forms Of Co-operation
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The Angolan Head of State, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, in Havana, Cuba, defended the need to review the forms of co-operation between Angola and Cuba, for the well-being of the two peoples.
Jose Eduardo dos Santos was speaking after his ...

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Angola: Oil industry Should Re-launch Other Economic Sectors
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The assistant executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Angolan João Caholo stressed the need of using the oil industry to re-launch other sectors of the economy, capable of attracting a large number of man power.
"Oil cannot guarantee great hopes of employment. The country can use it as a bridge to launch other sectors ...

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Technology Ministry to Set Up Chemical Security Commission
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The Ministry of Science and Technology wishes to set up a national commission to manage products and chemical security in the country.
The intention is contained in the final communiqué of the round table on Nanotechnology-Nanoproducts and Management of chemical products, promoted this Friday in Luanda by the National Technical Centre.

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Moxico: Sonangol Centre to Store Three Million Litres of Fuel
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The regional reserve centre of the Angolan Oil Company (Sonangol) in eastern Moxico province being built since last year will have a capacity to store three million litres of fuel and fill 3,000 gas cylinders, Angop learned ...

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Brazil`s Exports to Angola Rise by 60 Percent
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Exports from Brazil to Angola rose by 60 percent in 2006, going from Usd 520 million in 2005 up to Usd 836 million last year.
The information was released Tuesday in Luanda by Angolan Finance minister, José Pedro de Morais ...

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Angola is Fourth Biggest African Importer of Brazilian Products
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Angola is the fourth African nation that imported various products last year from Brazil, informed here, the Brazilian ambassador to the country, Marcelo Vasconcelos.
Speaking to ANGOP in the light of Brazil`s 185th independence anniversary to be commemorated on September 07, Marcelo de Vasconcelos affirmed that after South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt, Angola bought more Brazilian products in 2006 ...

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Cunene: Government to Build Schools in Xangongo District
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The government of southern Cunene province will built, this year, in Xangongo district five primary schools and same number of health centres, in the light of the Public Investment Programme (PIP) in that region.
The administrator of Ombadja district, Domingos Tabi, who announced this fact Thursday, said that each school will have six classrooms, whereas the health centres will have the capacity to hospitalise six patients each ...

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Angola Needs Statistics in Industry, Transport Sectors
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Angola is still in need of reliable statistics enabling an appraisal of its energy needs in the sectors of industry and transports, said in Luanda, Angolan deputy minister of Planning, Carlos Lopes.
The deputy minister was presenting the topic ...

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Moxico/Polio: Over 40,000 Children Immunised in Alto-Zambeze, Luau Localities
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At least 47,821 children from below the age of five were vaccinated against poliomyelitis in the districts of Alto-Zambeze and Luau, eastern Moxico province, in the framework of the third phase of the immunising campaign, held from August 31 to September 02, 2007, ANGOP learnt from a health source ...

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Cuba: Co-operation Accords, Memorandum Signed
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Ten co-operation accords and understanding memorandums were signed in Havana, meant to boost economic, commercial ties and deepen friendship and solidarity between the Angolan and Cuban peoples and States, ANGOP has learnt ...

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