Angola News

SABMiller will build a $125 million brewery and sparkling soft drinks plant in Angola, the brewing giant said today.

Luanda - The lack of employment in post-war Angola has encouraged entrepreneurs to flourish, according to a report published late on Wednesday.

After having assessed on Saturday the progress of the works in the provinces of Hula and Benguela, the delegation of the Confederation of African Football , led by the chairperson of the organisation, Issa Hayatou, visited to the stadiums of Chiazi and of Camama , having considered the construction works as satisfactory.

Luanda, Jun 30 The African Union approved of Sunday''s presidential elections in Guinea Bissau, which special envoy Angolan Joao Bernardo de Miranda called transparent, fair and clean.

One of British Airways' Boeing 777-200s has suffered wing damage after being struck while parked by a taxiing aircraft in Angola.

Luanda International Jazz Festival is proud to announce that the venue of the inaugural event is the Cine Atlantico instead of the Convention Centre, which was initially earmarked, but is unavailable.

The improvement in graphics and information contents in the new online service of the state-owned daily newspaper Jornal de Angola will help readers to have diversified and facilitated information.

Angola and Russia have signed six cooperation accords in various sectors during Russian President Dimitri Medevdev's one-day official visit to Angola at the weekend.

Russian President Dimitri Medvedev said on Friday said that his country will begin from now to pay greater attention to economic relations with Angola, mainly in the area of investments.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev thinks that the states that earlier had colonies in Africa should think about paying back the debt to the African continent.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is spending only a few hours in Angola, but has a lot on his agenda in the oil- and diamond-rich southern African country that has long had close ties to Moscow.

The minister of Home Affairs, Roberto Leal Monteiro "Ngongo" made Friday in Luanda, the delivery of 562 vehicles to support various organs engaged in the sector at the national level.

The programme that aims to spread fixed Internet all over the country would bring higher costs for the State and for those enterprises working with information technologies, affirmed this Friday, in Luanda, computer science expert, Rui Manuel dos Santos.

A new report issued by Human Rights Watch Monday calls for the Angolan government to end the arrest and torture of suspected rebels in the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda.

The minister of Economy, Manuel Nunes Jnior, said on Saturday in Viana district, in Luanda, that with the creation of the "Nosso Super" commercial network it was possible to reduce price hike in products part of the basic commodities of the national market.

The foundation stone for the construction of the new cold storage warehouse with the capacity of conserving 500 tonnes of farming products of the Angolan Firm for the Conservation and Trading of Perishable Products "FRESCANGOL", was laid this Tuesday, in Luanda, by the minister of Agriculture, Afonso Pedro Canga.

The world financial and economic crises slightly affected the concession program of micro-credit for family agricultures affiliated in Unaca-Confederation of Farmer Associations and Cooperative Companies of Angola, assured this Tuesday, in Luanda, the head of the organization, Paulo Uime.

Loans with large margin for risks processed by the Angolan BIC bank, are recording an increase on interest rate, said in Luanda the CEO of that insitution, Fernando Teles.

The deputy minister of Industry, Kiala Gabriel, Monday in Luanda said that despite the global financial and economic crisis, Angola still keeps on inspiring the confidence of investors.

Luanda is the most expensive city in the world for foreign workers, according to a survey.