We are celebrating the International Youth Day the young women of Africa!

Happy International Youth Day the young women of Africa! Education is an excellent tool for youth empowerment.

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a profound shock to our societies. In addition to the health crisis, it has disrupted education, livelihoods and social lives, increased care burden and led to rising levels of violence against women at home and in communities.

For youth, many of these impacts will be long-lasting and multi-dimensional. For example, 191 countries have implemented nationwide or localized school closures with 1.5 billion people not being able to go to school. The closures are expected to impact not only learning, but access to free or low-cost nutritional meals and essential social services and support. Even before the pandemic, globally 77 per cent of youth were estimated to be informally employed. Small entrepreneurs and those employed in the informal sectors are among the hardest hit by the economic shocks of COVID-19.

Youth are also leaders at the forefront of the crisis, pushing for equality, justice and dignity for all. Around the world, feminist youth and women’s organizations are supporting the design and implementation of response and recovery programmes. They are combating misinformation through grassroots campaigns, volunteering to support the elderly and vulnerable populations, and inventing inclusive solutions.

On International Youth Day, 12 August 2020, UN Women celebrates and recognizes the contributions of youth around the world, particularly during these difficult times of COVID-19.

The theme of International Youth Day 2020, “Youth Engagement for Global Action”, highlights all the ways that young people are enriching institutions, contributing solutions and shaping decisions in their communities, countries and globally.

Covid-19: Journalists called to help promote public health. Training on covid-19 for journalists and opinion makers

 Angolan Health minister Sílvia Lutucuta has appealed journalists to help the authorities with promoting public health, by publishing trustworthy information that influence and change behaviour.

Speaking at the end of a training programme for journalists and opinion makers on Tuesday, Sílvia Lutucuta admitted that the social communication professionals play a crucial role in mobilising and changing behaviour in the fight against the coronavirus.

“We need and count more and more on the contribution of the journalists community to help us touch Angolans’ hearts, by informing the population on the existence and gravity of covid-19 in the country,” said the minister.

She recalled that the drop in cases of covid-19 infections in the country depends much on the level of information and knowledge the citizens can have about the disease, as well as people’s strict compliance with the preventive measures.

Achieving this challenge in Angola, Lutucuta added, requires a clear, true and effective message from the media.

According to the minister, the country’s health authorities are available to work with the journalists and opinion makers, by sharing the necessary information to spread sanitary literacy within the population.

Sílvia Lutucuta reiterated the need for all citizens to join the fight against the novel coronavirus, seeking to interrupt the transmission chain, protect the health of the families, and reduce the social and economic impact of the disease on the lives of the Angolan people.

In view of the rise in the number of positive cases of covid-19 in the country, Sílvia Lutucuta appealed to citizens not to stigmatise those infected and instead act in solidarity.

The training programme sponsored by the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, was meant to equip journalists and opinion makers to promote a harmonised message that brings all citizens united in the fight against covid-19 that has so far killed 80 people in Angola.

During the training, the participants learned about the covid-19 projections for August and September this year in Angola, including the preventive measures required to curb the spread of the virus in the country.

According to projections announced at the meeting, Angola might reach 45,000 positive cases of covid-19 until September this year, should preventive measures not be strictly observed.

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Online goods auction yields Kz 71 million

 The General Tax Administration (AGT) raised 71 million kwanzas, with the online auction of 139 lots of various goods, held on July 12.

AGT's forecasts indicated that 29 million kwanzas would be collected for the State coffers.

More than a thousand taxpayers competed for "online purchases", whose market had computer, hospital, sports, industrial and automotive equipment, cosmetics, toys, beverages, clothing.

Construction materials, three-phase industrial engines, and household appliances were also included in the batch of goods auctioned online.

According to a note from AGT to which Angop had access, the goods sold were long ago in storage at the Customs Logistic Center of Kilometer 33, in Luanda.

With this auction, AGT "got rid" of those goods and started returning the containers to the shipping agents.

Traditional medicine completes health system in Angola

 The Commission for Social Policy of the Council of Ministers discussed this Tuesday the complementarity of traditional medicine in the National Health System, in a meeting led by the Minister of State for the Social Area, Carolina Cerqueira.

DISPLAY OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINES (FILE)

FAF gets FIFA and CAF aid

 The Angolan Football Federation (FAF) will receive US$1.8 million from the International Federation of the Sport (FIFA) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) due to the Covid -19 pandemic.

The information was provided by the president of the FAF, Artur Almeida e Silva, in a press conference held this Tuesday in Luanda.

According to him, yet in this month of August FAF will receive the first tranche of USD 1 million.

The second tranche, worth USD 500,000, will only be allocated in January 2021, through accountability.

As for the amount allocated by the African Football Confederation, Artur Almeida e Silva confirmed that it is USD 300,000, to be made available during the year.

Women's football will be entitled to USD 500,000, while each club in the first division will benefit from USD 16,000, from the second division USD 10,000. The provincial associations will receive each USD 12,000.

 The senior national team will benefit from USD 90,000.

According to the person in charge of FAF, only now the amounts will be available, since the degree of demand on the part of the creditors is quite strict with regard to the transfer of amounts.

These amounts will be distributed to clubs in the first and second division, the women's sector, provincial associations, training schools, professional associations linked to coaches, referees, beach soccer and indoor soccer.

Covid-19: 56 new infections, two deaths, six recoveries

 Fifty-six new positive cases of covid-19 have been detected in Angola in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1.735.

The information was released Tuesday evening in Luanda by the secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, who said in the same period, the country reported two deaths and six recoveries, bringing the totals to 80 and 575, respectively.

Delivering the daily covid-19 update report, Franco Mufinda said the number of active patients has risen to 1.080.

According to the official, two of the new infections were detected in northern Cabinda province, following a local transmission.

Mufinda stated as well the newly infected are patients with ages between 19 and 59 years, involving 43 males and 13 females.

Musician Carlos Burity dies in Angola

  Angolan musician Carlos Burity died this Wednesday in a health unit in Luanda, victim of illness.

The author of songs like "Malalanza", "Tia Joaquina", "Tona Cashi", "Manazinha" and "Mucangiami", died at the Girassol Clinic.

According to the artist's agent, Maló Jaime, the musician was admitted to the Emergency ward, already in serious conditions , where he ended up dying.

Carlos Fernandes Burity Gaspar started his musical career in 1968 and recorded hits like "Ixi Iami" and "Recado" in 1974.

Born in Luanda, in 1952, Burity joined the pop-rock band "Five plus one" in 1968, with Catarino Bárber and José Agostinho, the last of the Duo "Missosso, with Filipe Mukenga.

In 1974 he recorded, with the Semba Group, a selection of Angolan musicians that remained in the history of Angolan Popular Music, his first single, which includes the themes "Ixi Iami" and "Recado".