The Angolan Development Bank allocated $112,3 million to finance 146 projects in the fisheries sector; 123 are already operational, and the others, including a factory producing fishing nets and related materials, nearing completion

The World Health Organisation is leading a mission to eradicate dracunculiasis - or Guinea worm disease, a crippling parasitic disease - in Angola, one of the five countries where it has not yet been eradicated

The largest amount of oil in almost 4 years will be exported in August, showing why the country decided to leave OPEC; shipments will rise to 1,23 million barrels per day, OPEC tried to impose a production limit of 1,1 million barrels per day on Luanda

The second phase of the polio vaccination campaign took place in 11 provinces of the country for children under the age of five; the goal of the campaign was to immunise more than three million children thanks to 7.000 trained teams

Growing use of minors in gold mining in the municipalities of Jamba and Chipindo, in the central province of Huila, has been reported by the National Institute for Children