MPLA in Luanda wants unity and organization

 The ruling MPLA party in Luanda wants unity of all militants and a better organisation to face current and future challenges, according to its first secretary Joana Lina.

Joana Lina, who was speaking this Saturday during a field visit of the executive committee of the party's provincial committee to several members of action committees in the municipality of Cazenga, under the programme "EME in Movement", asked the militants for discipline and cohesion from the base to the top, taking into account the great challenges that MPLA has to face.

She stressed the need for the militant to be close to the community and to support initiatives to combat the new coronavirus, complying with biosecurity measures to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, the partisan official called for the mobilization of residents for campaigns to collect rubbish inside neighborhoods, as it is one of the preventive health measures in this rainy season.

In his turn, the itinerant secretary of the party in Luanda, Bento dos Santos "Kangamba" noted that the MPLA continued to work to resolve the problems of the communities.

In Cazenga, MPLA has 104,458 militants, distributed in 1,786 action committees.

The "EME in Moviment" programme, which started 15 days ago, has already passed through the municipalities of Cacuaco and Viana and is headed by Luanda's first secretary, Joana Lina.

Angola's credibility on peace goes back to Agostinho Neto

 Addis Ababa - Angola's permanent representative to the African Union, Francisco da Cruz, said that the country's credibility, in terms of Peace and Security and Conflict Resolution, was also the result of the first steps taken by António Agostinho Neto after he proclaimed National Independence on 11 November 1975.

Francisco da Cruz , also ambassador to Ethiopia, was speaking Friday during a video conference on the "Life and Work of Agostinho Neto," the first President of Angola, marking the "Day of the National Hero," celebrated on 17 September.

Addressing the diplomatic dimension of Agostinho Neto, the ambassador considered that there is today a different southern Africa, thanks to the commitment of Angola, so "Africa accepts us as a country of principles and engaged in issues of peace and security.

For the diplomat, Neto's quote, according to which "In Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa is the continuation of our struggle" defined the diplomatic agenda of Angola, having as fundamental pillars not only the defense of its strategic interests but also its commitment and contribution to the development of relations between peoples and nations.

The non-alignment policy then outlined, allowing friendly relations with other peoples of different regimes to the Angolan, helps to understand the efforts of Agostinho Neto in establishing relations with the USA and, in 1978, with the neighbouring Zaire (now DRC), which provided a new reality of cooperation and a dynamic of solidarity with the latter.

According to Francisco da Cruz, for Agostinho Neto Angolan diplomacy would follow the nation's wishes for peace and cooperation for economic development, as well as serve for liberation and peace in the world.

Besides the anti-colonial struggle, he was always concerned about creating conditions of dignity and progress for Angolans, animated by the feeling that, "the most important thing is to resolve people problems," he added.

The diplomat said that Agostinho Neto had the conscience and belief that it was not enough to be pure and just cause, being necessary that purity and justice exist in each citizen.

Covid-19: Angola with 90 new infections, five deaths

 Ninety new infections and five deaths is the statistical balance sheet for the last 24 hours announced this Sunday by the health authorities.

According to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, during the updating session, there were 88 cases notified in Luanda and two in Cabinda province.

Mufinda said that the list of new patients, whose ages range from three to 99 years old, included 47 men and 43 women.

In relation to the five deaths, he noted that these were four Angolan citizens and one of Eritrean nationality, all resident in Luanda province, two of them male and three female.

With these data, Luanda province has a cumulative of 3,655 positive cases and 144 deaths, Benguela 44 positive and three deaths and Cabinda with 86 positive cases.

The epidemiological table also shows Bengo with seven positive cases and one death, Bié with five positives, Cunene with four cases, Huambo with 35 cases and two deaths, Huíla with four cases, Kwanza Norte with 25 cases and four deaths, Kwanza Sul with five cases and one death, Lunda Norte with one case, Lunda Sul one case, Malanje one case, Moxico three cases, Uíge one case and Zaire with 114 cases.

The provinces of Cuando Cubango and Namibe are the only ones without a positive case record.

The country has 3,991 positive cases, with 152 deaths, 1,445 recovered and 2,394 active.

Of the active, one is in critical condition with invasive mechanical ventilation, 11 severe, 50 moderate, 62 with mild symptoms and 2,282 asymptomatic.

Four hundred and fifty-four patients are under follow-up in treatment centres.

ILO Global Media Competition 2020 on Labour Migration and Fair Recruitment (Fully Funded Fellowship to ITC-Turin in Italy and $1,000+ cash Prize )

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The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching its sixth annual Global Media Competition to recognize exemplary media coverage on labour migration and fair recruitment.

The competition aims to promote quality reporting on labour migration issues. It will give awards to two published media pieces. For the first time it will also give prizes for two ‘synopses’ of stories to be developed on labour migration or fair recruitment.

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The winners will be able to choose between cash (US$1,200 in the published media piece and US$500 for the synopsis category) or a paid fellowship to participate in course in 2021 on a fair recruitment or labour migration at the ILO’s International Training Centre 

The competition will also award one prize to a student journalist for a synopsis on the topic of labour migration and/or fair recruitment of migrant workers.

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Meghan Markle On Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death: ‘Honor Her, Remember Her, Act For Her’

As millions around the globe mourned the death of “hero” Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Meghan Markle remembered the Supreme Court associate justice Saturday as a “true inspiration.” 

“With an incomparable and indelible legacy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will forever be known as a woman of brilliance, a Justice of courage, and a human of deep conviction,” the Duchess of Sussex said in a statement shared with HuffPost. 

“She has been a true inspiration to me since I was a girl,” the duchess added. “Honor her, remember her, act for her.”

Ginsburg died Friday surrounded by her family in Washington after decades of being treated for cancer, the Supreme Court said. She was 87. 

The liberal icon, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, was just the second woman to sit on the nation’s highest court and the first Jewish woman to do so.

In a statement, Chief Justice John Roberts mourned the nation’s loss of “a justice of historic stature.”

“We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague,” he said Friday. “Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice.” 

In the days before her death, Ginsburg told her granddaughter that her “most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” according to NPR.   

President Donald Trump said that he wished to nominate Ginsburg’s replacement “without delay.”

“We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “We have this obligation, without delay!”  

Following Ginsburg’s death, there are now five  conservative judges, all appointed by Republicans, and three liberal judges, all appointed by Democrats. 

Covid-19: Angola reports 53 new infections, two recoveries

Luanda - The health authorities announced that 53 new infections and two recovered in the last 24 hours have been registered.

According to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, who was speaking at the usual update session, these were three cases registered in Lobito municipality, Benguela province, two in Cabinda and 48 in Luanda.

Of the new patients, Mufinda said, whose ages range from 2 to 86, 28 are male and 25 female.

The recovered patients are all from Luanda province.

With these data, Luanda province has a cumulative of 3,567 positive cases and 139 deaths, Benguela 44 positive and three deaths, and Cabinda with 84 positive cases.