Angola

President Lourenço presented the key policies he would implement if elected in August 2022, among which the diversification of the market economy, the fight against corruption and greater supply of health public services

63.000 families in the municipalities of Cuemba, Camacupa and Nhârea have, since February last year, registered to benefit from the Program for the Strengthening of Social Protection "Kwenda"

The three pay-TV operators in the market lost 276.000 subscribers between the end of 2020 and the end of the 3rd quarter of 2021; the causes are the economic crisis and the availability of illegal pay-TV services at six times lower prices

This year, farming families in the province of Bié will benefit from the donation of 30.000 breeding and rearing chicks, with the aim of directly contrasting hunger and poverty in the local communities

Angolan News Agency ANGOP won the award for Best Digital Platform 2021 at the first edition of the Marketing and Publicity Fair held in Luanda

Telecoms regulator Inacom could issue the first 5G licence by the end of the year, approved last month by a presidential order

The Minister of State for the Social Area reiterated the call for greater circulation of students and teachers between the countries of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, especially at university, post-graduate and doctoral level

The unemployment rate increased by 7,9% in the third quarter of 2021, according to data released by the country's National Institute of Statistics

The Finance Minister explained that the salary increase planned for the civil service, in 2022, aims to restore the purchasing power of families; any increase will be done according to the limits of the government's available financial capacity

An ordinance for the electrification of 13 out of 16 municipalities in the province of Uíge has been signed by the President and could encourage the emergence of small, medium and large enterprises in the region

Journalists from different public and private media, in Namibe, participated in a blood donation campaign promoted by the Namibe Provincial Office of Social Communications in the city of Moçâmedes

FAO will set up an artisanal factory for the production of animal supplements in Huambo as part of the MOSAP II project, which aims to minimize the difficulties faced by 1.420 small-scale farmers in accessing this commodity

650 farming families in the province of Uíge will benefit, until the end of this year, from mechanized help for the practice of family farming, as part of the Integrated Program for Local Development and the Fight against Poverty