Day: June 29, 2023

National Assembly (parliament) Speaker Carolina Cerqueira is taking part Thursday in the International Day of Parliamentarianism celebrations in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.

The Angolan politician, who arrived in Portugal Wednesday, is due to speak on Friday at the second official session of the Portuguese Parliament.

The commemoration programme includes receptions to be hosted by the mayors of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, and Sintra, Basílio Horta.

The International Day of Parliamentarianism is celebrated every year on June 30, the date on which the Inter-Parliamentary Union was created in 1889, an organisation comprising all parliaments.

This year’s theme is “Parliaments for the Planet” and aims to mobilise parliaments and parliamentarians to take action regarding climate emergency.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

Angolan head of State João Lourenço Thursday appointed Ângelo de Barros da Veiga Tavares to the position of Inspector General of State Administration (IGAE), the Presidency’s Office has announced.

Prior to his appointment, Ângelo de Barros da Veiga Tavares was sacked from the position of advisor to the President of the Republic.

On the other hand, the Head of Executive Power appointed Maria Juliana de Carvalho Van-Dúnem de Fontes Pereira as Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Angola (BNA).

In the same decree, the president terminated the mandate of Maria Juliana de Carvalho Van-Dúnem de Fontes Pereira, as executive director of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Angola.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

Angolan minister of Interior Eugénio Laborinho Wednesday in Luanda described the cooperation relations in police field with Cabo Verde as excellent.

At the meeting with the Cabo Verdean Minister of Communities Jorge Maurício dos Santos, the minister said that the cooperation between the two countries’ institutions is based on eight legal instruments.

He mentioned the technical cooperation agreement on security issues and public order, signed on 28 July 2003, among others.

Eugénio Laborinho also referred to the memorandum of understanding between Angola’s Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Internal Administration of Cabo Verde, signed on 21 March 2012 in Praia.

The leaders analysed cooperation in the field of training of specialists for the national police forces from the two States.

The Angolan official said the implementation of the above legal instruments have allowed the training for the Police of Cabo Verde.

The training features areas of specialties, preventing and combat crime, sharing information and experience, including the exchange of delegations.

He referred to the ten police officers from Cabo Verde, who he said are currently attending a degree course at the Higher Institute of Police and Criminal Sciences Osvaldo Serra Van-Dúnem.

Eugénio Laborinho informed the Cabo Verdean minister of the existence, in Angola of 4,851 Cabo Verdean citizens.

He stressed that of this number, 43 hold a work visa, 68 have a temporary stay visa, 4,723 a residence permit and 17 are students.

In his turn, the Cabo Verdean official stressed Angola’s role in the CPLP, considering it a strategic partner for Cabo Verde.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

Angolan Head of State João Lourenço and the chairperson of the organisation of the Angola Red Cross (CVA) Delfina Cumandala analysed Thursday in Luanda the issues related to this institution.

Delfina Cumandala confirmed this to the press at the end of an audience granted to her, adding that she presented to the Angolan Head of State, as CVA honorary president, matters that plague the institution.

Among the issues, the chairperson mentioned the ongoing projects and those linked to the social conditions of employees.

She said currently institution is operating with the support from national and international organisations and companies, with a view to helping the drought victims in some regions of the country.

Delfina Cumandala was elected chairperson of the Angola Red Cross during the elections held in May this year.

Angola Red Cross was created on March 16, 1978 and recognised by the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) on October 1, 1986.

It is also affiliated with the Federation of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

The institution provides social and medical assistance to needy people.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

Members of National Assembly have been encouraged to strengthen the supervision of public accounts to boost the anti-corruption process underway in the country.

The call was made by director general of Action for Rural and Environment Development (ADRA), Carlos Cambuta, while addressing a training action designed for members of the Public Accounts Committees of SADC Parliaments on Thursday.

Cambuta noted that the National Assembly should increasingly focus on its function of overseeing the management of public resources.

“It turns out that this action is not yet in use as such, due to the Constitutional Court ruling that limits the supervisory function of the members of National Assembly”, he said.

The head of ADRA said in terms of supervision “there is every need to review the Judgment of the Constitutional Court regarding the impediment of the AN to exercise its true role”.

After considering the move as crucial in anti-corruption process, the official said that no restriction should be placed on the MPs so that they can , indeed,

play their true role.

He recalled that under Article 52 of the Constitution, citizens have the right to participate in public life and, as a result, to dialogue with local State institutions, to better understand the processes.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

Chief of Staff of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) Gen. Altino dos Santos Thursday suggested the creation of the National Maritime High Authority (AAMN) to facilitate the coordination of actions in favour of national interest.

General Altino dos Santos stressed the importance of AAMN at the conference on “national and regional maritime security, ahead of 47 anniversary of the Angolan Navy (MGA), scheduled for July 10.

Addressing the event, under the topic: perspectives in the face of new threats”,

the General Altino dos Santos said the creation of AAMN will ensure safety and control of navigation, preservation of natural resources.

The move will also ensure protection of underwater cultural heritage as well as the marine environment and prevention and combat of pollution.

He hopes that the body will also have, among its responsibilities, maritime signaling and navigational aids, inspection of the economic use of resources, protection of mangroves, maritime rescue and on the coastline and public health, as well as the fight against drug trafficking, terrorism, piracy and illegal migration.

The FAA Chief of General Staff assured that the Navy is in better conditions to carry out its role of defending the maritime space from any aggression.

He stated that it is prepared, in coordination with the other branches of the FAA, to ensure that there is a blue, clean, safe sea, with plenty of food and wealth for the people and a leverage factor for the national economy.

He said that MGA can be proud that, in addition to the new ships and those that will gradually arrive in the country, a significant part of the works of expansion and modernisation of the naval base of Soyo, the largest in infrastructure of the branch, since the National Independence, will be concluded.

He defended a permanent inspection of the oceans to avoid shortages of fish products and less income for the national economy.

The General stressed that unreported and unregulated illegal fishing constitutes a serious threat to economic sovereignty and to the population, and therefore must be fought.

General Altino dos Santos advocated the need to publicise, from an early age, the Angolan maritime potential among national citizens, regarding leisure capacity, clean beaches, blue waters, water sports, the need to preserve the environment, and its economic advantages.

The Chief of Staff praised the country’s efforts towards the decarbonisation of the environment, the reconstitution of the coastal ecosystem, with the massive planting of mangroves, important for capturing carbon and releasing oxygen, as well as being a place for the reproduction of species.

In his speech on “operational perspectives on maritime security”, the commander of the Angolan Navy (MGA), Admiral Valentim António, considered international cooperation essential to guarantee the safety and protection of the seas.

In turn, the Admiral Valentim António pointed out as the main challenges the fight against piracy and smuggling of human beings, drugs and weapons to guarantee the safety of the seas and avoid negative repercussions on the economies of the States.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)