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Saturday, 16th May, 2020

Angola maintains 48 positive cases, with two

deaths, 17 recovered and 29 active (clinically
stable), informed today, the Secretary of State
for Public Health, Franco Mufinda.
The laboratory, according to the Secretary of
State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, who
was doing the usual data update, processed six
thousand 353 samples, with 48 positive, five
thousand 803 negative and 502 being
processed.
In the institutional quarantine, he pointed out,
there are 798 people, being Luanda, with 53,
Malanje (five) and Cuando Cubango (two).
Franco Mufinda made it known that sixty
people in the institutional quarantine were
discharged across the country.
Of those infected, 21 are cases of local
transmission and the rest are imported,
involving Angolans and foreigners.
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Angola will produce, during this year, eight
million carats, two million less than the
previous years, announced recently the
president of the National Diamonds Company,
Ganga Júnior.
Speaking on the sidelines of the announcement
of the winners of the public tender for the
granting of mining rights, carried out by the
Ministry of Petroleum, Geology and Mines, in
Luanda, Endiama C.E.O said that the drop in
production is due to the limitations imposed by
covid-19 pandemic.
However, the source explained that the
company is working on its restructuring in
order to increase production and position itself
among the three largest diamond miners in the
world.
He explained that, for this purpose, the existing
mines are being improved, with emphasis on
the old Luvo concession and the exploration of
the Luaxi mine, although on an experimental
basis, it will soon begin increasing the
production capacity. In 2019, the diamond
sector in Angola produced just over 9.1 million
carats, exploited by 12 mining companies.
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Three hundred and eighty seven projects, out of
a total of 435 eligible for execution under the
Integrated Plan for Intervention in
Municipalities, already have the monetary
allocation released and paid to contractors that
are to materialize the undertaking, indicates an
official government source.
For this purpose, the Angolan Executive has
already released Akz 9.5 billion, for the year
2020, with a cumulative total execution of Akz
21.8 billion.
According to the report of the Inter-Ministerial
Technical Group for the Implementation of
PIIM, to which ANGOP had access recently,
the mentioned amount results from a portfolio
of 1,581 projects under the Public Investment
Programme.
This portfolio includes the construction and
equipping of schools, hospitals and health
centres and bridges, as well as the rehabilitation
and asphalting of national, secondary and
tertiary roads.
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China Telecom Global, an information
technology and communication company, has
chosen Angola Cables to be its preferential
operator to reinforce its long distance
connectivity services between Asia, Africa and
Latin America.
A press release that reached Angop today says
with this partnership, the two companies are
gearing up to launch an express transmission
route connecting China, South Africa and
Brazil, through the Southern Atlantic Cable
System.
The note also states that the two institutions
have also set up an interconnection network in
South Africa, taking advantage of the advanced
capacities of the two firms’ networks, thus
significantly improving the transmission
capacity between China, South Africa, Angola
and Brazil.
Africa is a fast growing market and China
Telecom Global has been developing service
capacity on this market since 2010, the release
also says.
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National and foreign businesspeople hope to
acquire tourist concessions in the Angolan
region of the Okavango Project, which could
become a major factor in diversifying the
economy through tourism.
The information was provided today, by the
chairman of the Board of Directors of the
National Agency of the Okavango Region, Rui
Lisboa, in an interview with Angop.
The Angolan Okavango region has great
tourism potential, encompassing territorial
portions of six provinces, namely Huambo,
Huíla, Bié, Cunene, Moxico and Cuando
Cubango.
He said that there was a manifestation of
investment by a foreign business group, in the
amount of $50 million, in an ecotourism
project.
Onto the World News, now
Eritrea has officially declared itself virus-free
after all 39 patients successfully recovered from
COVID-19. A Ministry of Health statement
said the 39th patient had been discharged from
hospital as of yesterday.
As of May 8, there were only two active cases,
one of which was discharged on the 11th before
yesterday’s final recovery and discharge.
Eritrea follows the likes of Mauritania and
Mauritius who have recorded full recoveries.
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Félicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted
suspects in the Rwandan genocide, has been
arrested near Paris, the French justice ministry
has announced.
Mr Kabuga was detained by gendarmes in
Asnières-sur-Seine, where he had been living
under a false identity.
The International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda has charged the 84-year-old with
genocide and crimes against humanity.
He is alleged to have been the main financier of
the ethnic Hutu extremists who slaughtered
800,000 people in 1994.