Africa Angola Angola is betting on small businesses to diversify and transform its economy, now oil-dependent, and address unemployment, estimated at 30,2% among people over the age of 15
Africa Angola The country aims to maintain and increase oil production above 1,18 million barrels per day and position the gas sector to account for 25% of the country's energy needs by 2025 by calling for investment in exploration and production
Africa Angola Angola signed its fourth National Planning Framework for 2024-2029, the framework for medium-term planning of technical cooperation between a member state and the IAEA
Africa Angola Angola's central bank intends to increase its exposure to the euro due to rising interest rates in the currency bloc, said a spokesman for Banco Nacional de Angola
Africa Angola The Angolan parliament wants to ban the mining of cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets, according to the report on the discussion of the bill
Africa Angola Angola's central bank has begun a digital transformation project to modernise its technological infrastructure: implementing the latest innovations, it will replace the legacy system and introduce new functionalities critical to its operations
Africa Angola In December 2023, APOPO, with over two decades of history in humanitarian mine action, reached an extraordinary milestone by achieving a total of 100 million square metres of landmines cleared over the years
Africa Angola A 5% salary increase for civil servants has ben announced, with the aim of partially restoring their purchasing power and recognising their dignity in return for services rendered
Africa Angola The country produced an average of around 1,098 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2023, making it the third largest producer in Africa, behind only Nigeria and Libya, according to Angola's National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency
Africa Angola Angola, defeated in a long dispute with Saudi Arabia producers over oil production quotas, has left the Organisation of Petroleum Exporters, of which it had been a member since 2007
Africa Angola Electric cars will grow by 100% in 2024, from 2.000 cars to 4.000 units, according to projections by Addison Matos, executive chairman of Cve Angola, a company that has opened the first charging point for electric vehicles in Luanda
Africa Angola The first chapel built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Angola is now officially open; the new meeting house was built some 17 months ago to become a place of worship for three wards
Africa Angola The country's meteorological and geophysical systems have been modernised to provide rapid responses to populations affected by continuous natural disasters