The Social & Inclusive Business Camp 2021 for young African Social Entrepreneurs.

The Social & Inclusive Business Camp is an acceleration and capacity building program dedicated to entrepreneurs presenting a project with an impact on the African continent and having the desire to develop their activity (scaling up).

It is a hybrid support program, comprising:

3 months of remote coaching on a dedicated online platform, alternating interactive virtual classes with international experts and educational resources to be consulted independently;

1 week of intensive Bootcamp in Marseille , France, in partnership with the EMERGING Valley Summit (event dedicated to emerging innovations between Europe and Africa);

The possibility for each participant to be followed by a mentor , experienced alumni of the program;

Networking , through integration into an active and ambitious international community of 200 entrepreneurs and networking with investors and financial partners during the Bootcamp.


Since the first edition in 2017, the SIBC has supported 200 entrepreneurs with an impact on the African continent in their scaling up, the measurement of their social performance and their preparation for fundraising.

The program is organized around 4 key themes:

Leadership, governance and team: better define its purpose and act, structure its
governance and organize its teams for successful growth;

Scale up: adapt your business model and build your scale up strategy to multiply its impact;
ESG & Impact: define its ESG policy (Environmental, Social and Good Governance criteria) & Impact and measure its social performance;
Investment preparation: specify your financing needs, understand investors' expectations and prepare your fundraising.


Eligibility criteria:

To apply, the company must meet all of these criteria:

Be a legally registered business;

Click Here to apply https://bit.ly/3wDbtJr

ANGOLA GUEST OF HONOUR AT 8TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Lubango - Angola will attend the eighth edition of the International Film Festival “Arquiteturas Film Festival”, set for 1-6 June, in Lisbon, Portugal.

The country, which will participate in the event as guest of honour, is expected to present 11 cinematographic contents.

The activity will take place at São Jorge cinema and is an initiative that looks at the landscapes, projects, ideas and experiences of the world.

Emphasise will be place on Angolan content such as “Ar Condicionado”, “O Herói”, “Para Lá dos Meus Passos ”and“ Mulheres ”, announced the organisation of the event.

Speaking to Angop from Lisbon on Thursday, one of the Angolan representatives to the event, the actor Sílvio Nascimento, said that all the films to be shown were produced in Angola and by Angolans.

He considered an “honor for the country and for that peculiar moment of Angolan film”.

The six-day event will enable the Angolans to present 11 cinematographic works at the festival, ranging from documentaries, fiction films, animation and experimental works produced from 1975 to 2020

PRESIDENT GETS MESSAGE FROM CHAD COUNCIL LEADER

Luanda – The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, Thursday in Luanda, received a message from the leader of the Chad Transitional Military Council, Mahamat Idriss Deby.

The message was delivered by Ahmed Kogri, envoy of the leader of the Chad Transitional Military Council running the country’s affairs since the fall on the battlefield of President Idriss Deby Itno, in April this year.

Ahmed Kogri would not speak to the press at the end of the audience.

President João Lourenço is currently at the head of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and is, in that capacity, regularly informed on the situation in that member country.

The situation in Chad worsened in late April this year, following the death of Idriss Déby Itno, who succumbed to wounds sustained on the battle front during fighting against armed opposition forces.

He died a day after he was declared winner of the presidential election of 11 April.

As a result, a Transitional Military Council was put in place to take up the affairs of the country, before forming a transition government on 2 May, to run the country until new elections are held within 18 months.

A civil war has been raging on in Chad since December 2005, involving government forces and several armed groups.

PRESIDENT APPOINTS COMMISSION FOR A. NETO’S CENTENARY

Luanda – President João Lourenço Thursday in Luanda appointed an Inter-ministerial Commission to organise the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of the Founder of the Angolan Nation, António Agostinho Neto.

According to a press release from the Civil Affairs Office to the President of the Republic, the Commission is tasked with preparing a due celebration of the event.

The note further states that the Commission is made up by the heads of the Civil and Military Affairs Offices to the President of the Republic, respectively, as coordinator and deputy-coordinator.

The two will be assisted by the ministers of Territory Administration, National Defence and Motherland Veterans, Transports, Education, Telecommunications and External Relations.

The ministers of Finance, Education, Youth and Sports, Culture, Tourism and Environment are also part of the Commission.

The Commission has been assigned to draft a budget for the celebrations, prepare, organise and coordinate locally and abroad, all operations for the celebrations.

António Agostinho Neto was born on 17 September 1922, in Kaxicane (Icolo e Bengo, near the capital Luanda), and died on 10 September 1979. He proclaimed Angola’s Independence from the Portuguese colonial power on 11 November 1975.

PETRO BEAT AS SALÉ, QUALIFY FOR BAL SEMI-FINALS

Luanda – Angola’s Petro de Luanda qualified on Wednesday for the semi-finals of the African Basketball League (BAL) taking place in Rwanda, after beating Morocco’s AS Salé 79-72.

Petro de Luanda face Egypt’s Zamalek on Friday for the semi-finals.

Thursday's quarterfinal matches will oppose Tunisia's Monastir vs Senegal's Douanes and Rwanda's Patriots vs Mozambique’s Ferrovia de Maputo.

The final will be played on Sunday.

SOUTH AFRICAN GROUP TO INVEST USD 100 MILLION IN CABINDA

Cabinda - Troper, a South African business group, plans to invest about USD100 million in Cabinda in the near future in the agri-livestock and solar energy sectors.

The aim of the South African business delegation, which arrived in Cabinda Thursday, is to find openings and business opportunities with entrepreneurs from these two sectors and with the authorities of the provincial government, in order to create partnerships and investment opportunities in these two sectors.

In view of this, the head of Trooper's delegation, John Kayira, and the operations manager, Verónica Shale, met with the governor of Cabinda, Marcos Nhunga, where they put forward several ideas on business, partnership and investment opportunities in Cabinda.

John Kayira, who is part of the Angola-South Africa Business Forum, said that the trip to Cabinda was an opportunity to see in-loco the existing investments in these two sector and interact with local authorities and businesspeople about business and partnership opportunities in the agri-livestock and solar energy sectors.

FORMALISATION OF INFORMAL ECONOMY STARTS IN JUNE

Luanda - The implementation of the pilot project for the formalisation of the informal economy is due to start in June, Angop has learnt.

This was announced Thursday by National Director of the Population Policies Office, Adriano Celso Borja, who said that the process will begin from unofficial “Marcado do 30” Market, located in Viana municipality, Luanda.

 

Speaking to the press at the end of a working visit to the Market, Adriano Borja said the visit allowed to check the speedup of the market activity.

 

He announced plans to make final decision to launch, in this site, a registration and formalisation campaign of the economic activities and to accommodate the mobile brigades that will execute the registration.

 

He announced the creation of nine brigades made up of six people each, in a total of 54 members, that will perform the registration with appropriated technologic means.

 

This will include a joint administrative services such as Unique Company Window, Directorate of Registries and Notaries, General Tax Administration and the National Institute of Social Security.

 

The pilot Project for the formalisation of the informal economy, coordinated by the Ministry of Economy and Planning, will start with the registration of operators and followed by the effective formalisation that includes, in addition to the legalisation of documents, the finance inclusion and therefore the regulation of the activity, covering approximately two million of informal operators in Luanda province.