[ANGOP] Luanda -- The President of the United States, Joe Biden, arrived in Luanda on Monday afternoon for a three-day state visit, focused on consolidating the strategic partnership.
[New Era] Washington -- Outgoing US president Joe Biden is headed to the Southern African country of Angola this week, fulfilling a key promise in a bid to shore up ties with the continent.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angolan President João Lourenço will meet Tuesday in Luanda with his US counterpart Joe Biden, who is on a three-day state visit to the country to consolidate the strategic partnership.
[VOA] Nairobi -- After promising to visit Africa two years ago at the U.S. Africa summit in Washington, President Joe Biden makes his first presidential trip to the continent where he is visiting Angola with a quick stop in Cabo Verde. Analysts in Africa say the trip should've come sooner and some are asking why Angola is the primary destination - given its troubling human rights record.
[RFI] US President Joe Biden arrived in Angola on Monday, delivering on a promise to make an official trip to Africa before leaving office. The journey, likely his last one overseas as president, centres on an ambitious railway project aimed at challenging China's grip on central Africa's mineral exports.
[HRW] First-Ever US Presidential Visit to Angola Should Highlight Human Rights Concerns
[ANGOP] Moçâmede -- Some 122,000 tonnes of fish were caught between January and November this year in the province of Namibe, an increase of 33,000 tonnes compared to the same period last year.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- A cruise ship named "Norwegian Sky" docked Monday at the Port of Luanda with 1,936 tourists of various nationalities for a period of nine hours.
[White House] MODERATOR: All right, hello, everyone. This is Jessica Kosmider with the NSC press team. Thank you so much for joining us today, the day after Thanksgiving, for a background call to preview the President's trip to Angola.
[VOA] Washington -- When U.S. President Joe Biden visits Angola in early December, he will put into focus his legacy infrastructure project aimed at securing crucial supply chains on the African continent. Called the Lobito Corridor, the project is the centerpiece of his administration's strategy to counter China's clout in global development.
[VOA] The White House -- U.S. President Joe Biden is "excited" to make his first trip to the African continent next week and will first stop briefly in the small island nation of Cabo Verde before making landfall in the Southwest African nation of Angola, a top White House official told VOA Friday.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The visit to Angola by the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, starting this Monday, is deserving special attention in the international media.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The raising of the levels of bilateral cooperation between Angola and the United States emerges as the greatest trophy expected for Angolan diplomacy, with the unprecedented official visit, this month, of President Joe Biden to the country.
[Chatham House] Should Donald Trump fail to back the Lobito Corridor project, João Lourenço's government has other partnership options in Europe and the Middle East.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola registers an annual average of 16,000 new HIV/AIDS infections and around 13,000 deaths associated with the disease, the Angolan Network of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Service Organizations (ANASO) has said.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, said in an interview published Thursday by the US newspaper 'The New York Times ' that Angola has always worked to have a close relationship with the United States of America, within the framework of mutually advantageous co-operation.
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- President Joe Biden's visit to Angola is intended to amplify how U.S. leadership impacted trade, investment, and Infrastructure in the region, and highlight the "remarkable evolution" of the U.S.-Angola relationship, senior White House officials said in an online briefing. Scheduled from December 2 to December 4, 2024, it will mark the outgoing president's first African visit.
[AI London] Authorities in Angola must hold police officers accountable for killing, injuring or traumatizing dozens of people during protests between November 2020 and June 2023, Amnesty International said in a new report. Police must also stop attacking protesters and respect and uphold everyone's right to freedom of assembly.
[ANGOP] Dundo -- A total of 342 diamond stones of various carats have been seized in Chitato municipality, Lunda-Norte province, by the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC), in a micro-operation, in coordination with the National Police.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola's diamond potential and business opportunities are among the highlights of the country's participation in the 3rd International Diamond Conference, taking place from Tuesday to this Wednesday, in the city of Antwerp, Belgium.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- US President Joe Biden is 'very excited' about his visit to Angola, from 2 to 4 December, and chose the country because it is a regional leader and in recognition of the great transformations that have taken place in recent years.
[ANGOP] Cuvelai -- The National Police recovered a total of 145 head of cattle in southern Cunene province during the fourth phase of the operation dubbed "Okwamena Eliko mo Cunene" that runs from October 22 to November 22 this year, the local Police spokesperson commissioner Alberto Paulo said Tuesday.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, on Tuesday congratulated Yamandú Orsi Martinez on his election to the position of President of Uruguay.
[ANGOP] Dundo -- The director of the Provincial Education Office in the province of Lunda-Norte, Ricardo Ferreira, said on Monday that the process of regularizing remote area service subsidies for teachers is in the conclusive phase.
[ANGOP] Luena -- The facilities of the Social Security Institute of the province of Moxico were, on Tuesday, reinaugurated by the Minister of National Defence, Former Combatants and Veterans of the Fatherland, João Ernesto dos Santos 'Liberdade'.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The proposal for the General State Budget for the 2025 financial year, under discussion by the specialty committees of the National Assembly, reserves financial resources to pay for the demolition of buildings in a degraded state and at risk of collapsing, during the first half of next year.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Strategic Plan for the Media has already been implemented in 72 percent, lacking only the programme to modernise the public media, the Secretary of State for Social Communication, Nuno Caldas, said on Tuesday in Luanda.
[ANGOP] Huambo -- The deputy secretary of the Organization of Angolan Woman (OMA) in Huambo province Maria Catuvala on Monday reiterated the call to denounce the sexual abuse of minors, most of which is covered up by the family itself, out of shame or fear.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- A message from the President of Sudan, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan Abdel Rahman, to his Angolan counterpart, João Lourenço, was delivered Sunday night to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António.
[Namibian] Amid reports of Angola's first confirmed case of mpox in its capital, Luanda, the Namibian government says the country currently has no vaccines for the viral disease.