Luanda, 15 January 2009 - Your Excellency the dean of the diplomatic corps, Your Excellencies the ambassadors and chargés d’affaires, Illustrious guests, Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you for the courteous and friendly words ...

Luanda – Prime minister Antonio Paulo Kassoma discussed with south african ambassador, Thumba Kubheka, issues related to cooperation between Angola and South Africa on infra-structures, energy and agriculture.

Angolan Finance minister, Severim de Morais, in central Huambo, spoke of the need for a strong private sector in the country, capable of meeting the society’s demands for goods and services.
The minister was speaking at the closing of the first national conference on the private sector that took place in Huambo for two days.

The works carried out in the domestic terminal of the airports of the cities of Luanda and Luena, the ongoing works in the cities of Dundo, Mbanza Congo and Kuito, reflect the efforts of the National Company for Airports and Air Navigation (ENANA), to improve the image...

With the licensing of 4,180 large and small public and private shops and service markets, including “Nosso Super” network of supermarkets, municipal markets and Logistics and Distribution Centres (Clod), trade stood in 2008 as one of the most active sectors of the Angolan...

The northern Cabinda Province wharf received last Friday a large vessel with more than 132 metres of length and 15 metres wide, ANGOP learnt from a note of the local managing board of the port.

Angola's minister of Agriculture, Afonso Pedro Canga, on here considered that the achievement of positive results in this sector demands greaterdiscipline, competence, rigour and professionalism by employees, ANGOP has learnt.
Making a speech at the yearend greetings ceremony, the official said the Agriculture Ministry has goals and results to achieve in 2009, in matters of forest and farming ...

The director of the agriculture and rural development department of the central Benguela Province, Abrantes Carlos Sequesseke, announced last Thursday that as from April 2009 the new cold-storage warehouse will start operating and that it will have the capacity of conserving 3,000 perishable products.

Luanda – The participants to the extraordinary consultative council of the Agriculture Ministry recommended last Friday in Luanda measures to reinforce the national agricultural machines, aiming at the increase of the cultivation areas.

The director of the Office of Study, Planning and Statistics of the Agriculture Ministry, Joaquim Duarte, Monday in Luanda said the Usd 350 million credit line, approved Thursday by the Government, responds to the farmers’ expectations.
The credit is intended to finance small and medium scale

The New Mining Code, expected to be approved in mid-2009 by the Cabinet Council, considered diamonds, gold and the radioactive minerals as strategic for the country, said in Luanda, the coordinator of the Technical Commission for Revision of Mining Legislation ...

The construction of 14 ceramics units in the country in 2009, in order to rise its current production of five million bricks monthly to over six million per month, the Unicerâmica firm intends to participate aggressively in the manufacture and trading of building materials and ...

The Angolan industrial sector has reached a growth estimated at Usd 350 million, against the Usd 200 million of 2007, as a result of State and private investments.
This was announced in Luanda by the Industry minister, Joaquim David.

The United Nations committee on economic, social and cultural rights expressed satisfaction at the progress recorded by Angola in past six years, aimed at meeting the millennium development goals.
This information is contained in the final report of the assessment process released last Monday in Geneva ...

Luanda- The chairman of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GCC), José Eduardo dos Santos, in Luanda discussed with the executive secretary of the regional body, Miguel Trovoada, the restructuring of aspects of its functioning.

Addis Abeba – The president of Libya, Muammar Kadhafi, (photo) in Addis Ababa was elected to lead the African Union (AU), replacing Tanzanian president, Jakaya Kikwete.
The election took place on in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia),

Stockholm - A seminar aimed at attracting investments for Angola will take place this year in Stockholm, the Angolan ambassador to the Nordic countries, Domingos Culolo, revealed thursday.
Addressing the new year greetings ceremony, the angolan diplomat regarded the work with angolan associations in the nordic countries and the strenghtening of diplomatic and bilateral relations with the countries ...

Economic and Military Stability. Everyone who knows Angola, comes across a new country today. A more dynamic and safer country, with political, military and economic stability, Angola is going through the most prosperous moment of its history.