Isabel dos Santos quits Unitel board

 The entrepreneur Isabel dos Santos announced Tuesday that she has decided to leave the board of directors of the telecommunication operator Unitel.

 

 

Isabel dos Santos, who has been away from Angola, was part of the Unitel board of directors for 20 years.

Unitel is the largest mobile telecommunications operator in Angola, with over 10 million subscribers.

The company has in its shareholders structure, besides the Vidatel, the Geni (25%) and Sonangol, which holds 50% of participation.

"After 20 years dedicated to the creation, development and success of Unitel, I chose to leave the position of member of the board of directors of the company", Isabel dos Santos said through a press release.

The businesswoman, who holds 25% of Unitel's corporate structure, through Cidadela, says that "the conflict installed in the board of directors, as a result of relations between shareholders, at a time when the Angolan economy and the telecommunications market are going through adverse economic conditions" is counterproductive.

In the note, Isabel dos Santos stresses that the company's board of directors should be occupied by dedicated people with a team spirit, committed to rigorous and productive work, for the interests of the company, employees and customers.

She points out that in the years in which she led the operator, Unitel grew and made an investment of over USD 5 billion in the network, equipment and professional training.

 

 

Covid-19: Angola with 27 newly infected, two recovered

 Angolan health authorities have reported other 27 new positive cases and two recovered patients in the last 24 hours. 

 

The information was released Wednesday  by the secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda.

Addressing a daily covid-19 update briefing, Mufinda, mentioned, among the new cases, one in Huíla province which involves a citizen that violated the Luanda cordon sanitaire, and another in northern Cuanza Norte province’s Cazengo municipality.
 

The new infected, according to Franco Mufinda, are among the ages 01- 74 years old.

The list included 14 male and 13 female patients.

Angola records 1,762 positive cases, 1,105 active, 577 recovered and 80 deaths.

Among the actives, five are in critical condition, with invasive mechanical ventilation, 21 in severe condition, 22 moderate, 35 mild and 1,022 asymptomatic.

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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.