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Africa: Angola Defends UN Activities Adjustment

Luanda — Angola defended Monday in New York the adjustment of the UN-Women activities, in order to help the member states, mainly Africans, to reach “relevant tangible results” for the current Covid-19 context. This standing was expressed by Angola’s permanent representative to the United Nations, during a speech, on behalf of the African Group accredited

Africa: How the Resource Curse Has Played Out in Nigeria and Angola

In weakly institutionalised contexts, natural resource wealth tends to be a curse instead of a blessing. Where citizens are relatively powerless to hold ruling elites to account, resource wealth undermines development prospects. To the contrary, where citizens are able to exert constraints on the use of executive power, resource wealth can generate development outcomes that

ANGOLA/CONGO : Relations between Sassou and Lourenço become ever more poisonous

Presidential advisors in Angola now suspect Congo of colluding with the separatist Frente de Libertação do Estado de Cabinda (FLEC). Source link

SOUTH AFRICA/ANGOLA : Macron forced to postpone southern Africa tour yet again

Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Angola and South Africa planned for the first quarter of 2021 has been postponed to late March at the earliest. Source link

Angola Readies to Join Continental Trade Area

Luanda — The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) opened last Friday, January 1, 2021, which is an initiative of the African Union (AU) that foresees an increase in trade among member countries. The Republic of Angola may not start, on that same day, to carry out free trade under the Agreement, taking into account

Angola: Reforms in Angola Arouse Interest in Kenya

Luanda — Angolan ambassador to Kenya Syanga Abílio said Wednesday that the East African country’s investors were interested in investing in Angola. According to the diplomat, who was speaking on the LAC breakfast programme, investors from Kenya are very interested, driven by the reforms taking place in the Angola. The diplomat highlighted Kenyans’ interest in

ANGOLA/GHANA : Covid tests, an unexpected windfall for Israeli-Swiss group Mitrelli, China's BGI and Nigeria's Peters family

In recent months, a new breed of visitor has been crowding into the highly chic, privately owned Luanda Medical Center (LMC). They are the air travellers who are obliged by Source link