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Friday, 15th May, 2020

The Government wants Angolans to show

unity, integrity and discipline in their
commitment to fight against the coronavirus
pandemic.
This is expressed in a message from Ministerial
Departments addressed to the Angolan
Families, during the celebration of International
Family Day today.
The message jointly signed by the Ministries of
Social Action, Family and Promotion of
Women, Education and Culture, Tourism and
Environment, appeals to the families for dignity
and promotion of moral values based on love,
dialogue and understanding amongst members.
The document highlights the Executive's
actions aimed at improving the well-being of
Angolan families, with stress to the Integrated
Local Development Plan and Combat Poverty
and the Social Monetary Transfer Programmes,
financed by the European Union and the World
Bank.
In the field of Education, the document advises
families to take advantage of confinement for
conveying collective values, such as the
education of future generations as there is more
time for family interaction.

The message stresses that the Education sector

will continue to work to strengthen relations
between school and family, and it is updating
the regulations of the Parents' Commissions,
Guardians and School Councils.

As for the cultural domain, the note states that

the preservation of culture, crucial to the
conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems,
necessarily entails family engagement in the
transmission of values.
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Separately, Reverend Pedro Kinambuta,
President of the Family Federation for the
World Peace and Unification in Angola, states
that family is the school of peace, although
family has issues we ought to raise our kids.

RD ………………… Pedro Kinambuta 1

The Reverend goes on to say that at times there
´s violence in the family due to lack of true
love.
RD …………… Pedro Kinambuta 2
That was Reverend, Pedro Kinambuta,
President of the Family Federation for the
World Peace and Unification in Angola.
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Angolan State hopes to save one billion
kwanzas a year with the merger of government
departments that started two months ago.
This was said recently in Luanda by the
minister of State and head of the Civilian
Affairs Office to the President of the Republic,
Adão de Almeida. In March this year Angolan
government cut down on the number of
ministerial departments from 28 to 21.
In this regard, minister Adão de Almeida said
with this measure the government seeks to
rationalise its administrative structures.
Speaking to journalists on the fringes of the
Cabinet Council’s extraordinary session, the
minister explained that the purpose is to
channel the money being used in the
administrative apparatus to the social sector,
with more investment in education, health and
other services of public interest.
Adão de Almeida said the operation will lead to
an overall downsizing of managerial posts from
559 to 313. However, he explained, the mergers
do not imply cutting down on manpower as
there will be no layoffs.
The operation has until now led to the merger
of the ministries of Defence with Former
Combatants, Culture with Hotels and Tourism,
Telecommunications and Technologies of
Information with Social Communication.
The Ministry of Agriculture has merged with
that of Fisheries, Commerce with Industry and
Public Works has combined with Territory
Administration.
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The first phase of the 2019/2020 agricultural
season recorded a gross production deficit of
34,824 tons, with 1.1 million tons of various
products being harvested this period, said
recently, the local head of the Institute for
Agrarian Development, Victorino Chonguela.
Speaking to ANGOP, the head of the IDA
department in this province said they have
recorded a deficit of 3.2 percent reduction in
gross production, compared to the previous
season.
He pointed the excessive rainfall as the main
cause, mainly because it had considerably bad
impact on the growing of vegetables and
potatoes.
Victorino Chonguela also highlighted the small
amount of fertilizers available, compared to the
2018/2019 agricultural season, coupled with
incidence of pests and diseases.
The central Huambo province has a population
of 2.5 million inhabitants, mostly peasants, who
make farming potentially as the main source of
income.
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The governor of eastern Lunda Sul province
Daniel Neto recently encouraged farmers in the
region to increase production in order to
increase incomes and guarantee the subsistence
of families, as well as the diversification of the
economy, through agriculture.
The governor was speaking during a working
visit to the agricultural farms of Chilala,
Armindo Moreira and Kazua, soa as to assess
the degree of production, as well as the basic
social conditions of the residents.
On the occasion, he stressed that the promotion
of agricultural production helps to make the
region self-sufficient in food and contributes to
the materialisation of the programme to fight
hunger and poverty.
The governor informed that the Provincial
Government of Lunda Sul will continue to
create support policies for farmers, with
agricultural inputs to increase production and
the success of activity in the region.
Daniel Neto urged farmers to increase
production above 150 tonnes of various
products, allowing enough food for the capital,
which is the main consumer of the province.
During his visit, the official handed over
agricultural inputs and various seeds to the
heads of the said farms.

The province of Lunda Sul has potential in the

cultivation of corn, rice, sunflower, cassava, in
addition to vegetables and fruit.

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There are six winning companies for
prospecting and exploring diamonds, iron and
phosphate according to the mining code.

Some of them are Mimbos Resources of

Cabinda and Cimenfort Industrial of Zaire,
Ishangol de Camafuca-camanzambo and
Somipa Consortium from Lunda Norte and Sul.

According to the Ministry of Mining Resources,

Oil and Gas, the companies should in the
coming days negotiate and sign contracts for
closing the competition.

Endiama aims to put Angola among the three

largest Diamond-producing companies until
2020, banking on private partners.

Onto the World News, now

Scientists at the World Health Organization say

nearly a quarter of a billion people in Africa
could contract coronavirus within the first year
of the pandemic.
But they think more people will survive it than
in the US and Europe because so many
Africans are young. Their study, published in
BMJ Global Health, says between 150,000 and
190,000 Africans could die from Covid-19.
It says 5.5 million people would need hospital
treatment, overwhelming services already
struggling to treat malaria, tuberculosis and
HIV.
Coronavirus has been relatively slow to spread
in Africa but has already taken hold in camps
for displaced people in South Sudan.
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Vivine Uwizeye, also known as "Miss Vivy", is
the only coronavirus patient to have been
publicly identified in Rwanda.
It happened when a photo of the beauty queen
on a hospital bed in critical condition went viral
on social media last month.
The model and mother-of-two, who was voted
Miss Rwanda Plus-Size in a 2011 pageant, says
she still holds the crown because no contests
have been held since.
Speaking to the BBC, Ms Uwizeye is open
about her four-week stint in a treatment centre
for coronavirus.
"After days of symptoms I started struggling to
breathe, on 16 April I was taken to a hospital
emergency ward, the next day I was hit with the
bad news."
Two days after her diagnosis she was taken to a
specialist Covid-19 ward on the outskirts of the
capital, Kigali.
"I was the only one in critical condition at the
centre, every day doctors did their best treating
me," she says, adding that staff also offered
mental health support because "every patient
was scared".
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Israel is set to get its first Ethiopia-born
minister, with the nomination of a female MP
brought there in a secret operation in the 1980s.
Pnina Tamano-Shata has been chosen by
incoming deputy prime minister Benny Gantz,
who is forming a unity government with PM
Benjamin Netanyahu.
The new government is expected to be sworn in
on Sunday after a delay over ministerial
appointments. Israel's Ethiopian-Jewish
community often complains of discrimination.
Incidents of police using force against Israelis
of Ethiopian origin - including fatal shootings -
have led to street protests and clashes in recent
years. The 140,000-strong community is among
the poorest in the country and suffers from high
rates of unemployment.
However, many second generation Ethiopian-
Israelis have become successful across society,
achieving notable positions in the military,
judiciary and politics.