ANGOP ECONOMIC DESK EDITOR DIES

 Angola Press Agency (ANGOP) Economic Desk editor, Agostinho Pascoal Quilemba, died of disease on Tuesday in Luanda.

Born in Luanda on 1 July 1979, Quilemba was the son of Pascoal Domingos José and Domingas José Quilemba. He joined ANGOP in 2001.

The 41-year old Agostinho Quilemba, a graduate in economics, was one of the agency’s new generation professionals, having been appointed Economic Desk sub-editor in 2007.

In 2018, he became the Economic Desk editor, the position he held until he died on Tuesday of disease at Luanda’s Sagrada Esperança clinic.

Agostinho Quilemba was an exemplary, competent and innovating editor who led a team of promising young journalists in boosting and diversifying the ANGOP’s economics contents.