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[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola registered 310 new infections, 117 recoveries and 4 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
[Nairobi News] Innovators and SMEs in Africa are set to enjoy a global one-stop technology platform that will link them to possible sponsors for their innovative projects that can boost trade across Africa.
[New Zimbabwe] Some Zimbabweans living in neighbouring South Africa are using illegal routes to enter Zimbabwe for the festive holidays to avoid paying the exorbitant charges for Covid-19 tests.
These solutions were presented during a meeting held on Thursday in Luanda, in a promotion of the Union of Small and Medium Enterprises of Angola (UPME).
For Beatriz Franck, head of UPME, the Angolan government failed to contemplate, at this stage of the covid -19, entrepreneurs in fiscal relief.
Beatriz Frank said that entrepreneurs has suffered with the emergence of the pandemic of covid-19, leading many, in the last two months, to pay only 50% of the salary of their workers.
\"Our concerns will reach the President of the Republic who will find the best solutions for this sector that contributes a lot to the national economy,\" the head of UPME said.
UPME integrates 208 entrepreneurs, which makes up a total of 4,000 workers.
[DW] Police in Ghana say there have been dozens of incidents of violence during the divisive election. President Nana Akufo-Addo and former President John Mahama both claim to be on track for victory.
Russia's state arms seller Rosoboronexport announced in April the first contract to supply assault boats to a country in sub-Saharan Africa.
While this news might not have caught much international attention, this new deal adds up to a pattern: Russia is building its path to gain a foothold in Africa and broaden its export map for arms on the continent.
Russia's eye on Africa
Until now, Algeria remains the biggest recipient of Russian arms in Africa, followed by Egypt, Sudan and Angola.
In the new millennium, Russia was a predictable choice for Angola to sign new arms deals -- and within the last five years, Angola has become the third-biggest African client for Russian arms after Algeria and Egypt.
Soviet-era connections allowed Russia to secure its monopoly on arms deals, and Moscow completely wrote off Algeria's $5.7 billion in debt in 2006.
Luanda — Angola has detected three more cases of local transmission of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the number to 21.
The official added that the new infections are contacts of case 31, a Guinea Conakry national resident of Hoji ya Henda neighbourhood, Luanda's Cazenga district.
Mufinda stated that the new cases are a 36-year old male, and two females aged 24 and 22 who were in institutional quarantine.
With the three new cases, the total number of infections in Angola so far rises to 48, two deaths, 14 recoveries and 32 active patients in stable condition.
In institutional quarantine in the country, the official added, there are 688 people of whom 69 have been released in southern Cunene province (24), Luanda (28), northern Cabinda (three), central Bié (13) and northeastern Lunda Norte (one).
[New Zimbabwe] A MANICALAND provincial magistrate has ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to pay $151, 191 to a 15-yearold Mutare minor, Ernest Jamela, who was injured after a police officer unleashed dogs on him.
Ndalatando — A multidisciplinary committee of the Ministry of Health has been in Ndalatando, province of Kwanza Norte since last Wednesday, to monitor and test people living in the areas where the three positive cases of Covid-19 were detected.
The information was provided to Angop by the Vice-Governor of Kwanza Norte for the Political and Social sector, Leonor da Silva Garibaldi, who said that the team, which includes technicians from the rapid response and epidemiological surveillance office of the Ministry of Health, should work in the province for five days on testing and tracing contact of the three positive cases of Covid-19.
Leonor Garibaldi said that sanitary cordons have been imposed in two areas of the city of Ndalatando, namely the Indios street and Sambizanga neighbourhood, where local authorities are creating strategies to strengthen the supply of some basic services for residents, mainly drinking water and essential goods.
The director of the Provincial Health Office, Filomena Wilson, recalled that the three people detected with Covid-19 were evacuated to reference units in Luanda, while actions to locate and test all the people who remained in contact with these positive cases are underway.
The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 29 additional cases of COVID-19 have been recorded, taking the total number of cases recorded by Guyana to 6,105.
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[allAfrica] As of December 3, the confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries have reached 2,201,303. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 52,581 and recoveries 1,866,301.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- With the privatisation of 36 assets alienated and contracts for different units, the Angolan Government plans to collect 355 billion kwanzas.
[CAJ News] Luanda -- ANGOLAN police and the military have allegedly killed ten people as authorities implement coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions and quash anti-government protests.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angolan ambassador to Kenya Syanga Abílio said Wednesday that the East African country's investors were interested in investing in Angola.
Luanda — Sagrada Esperança is the second Angolan representative appointed to dispute the African Confederation Cup in Football, benefiting from Interclube's withdrawal, already communicated by a letter addressed to the Technical Sports Council, allegedly for financial reasons.
According to a statement from the Angolan Football Federation (FAF), the withdrawal of Interclube left Sagrada Esperança without competitors for the draw that should indicate the team to represent the country in the second largest continental competition of clubs.
In the current season, Sagrada Esperança reached the semi-finals in the Angola League Cup and was one step away from the final, in case of victory or draw against Interclube, in the second leg of the semi-finals, after winning 3-1 in the first leg.
The national champions in 2005 and the Angola Cup (1988 and 1999) have already participated in the Confederation Cup on three occasions, in 1992 (eliminated in the second phase), 1998 (first phase) and 2016 (quarter-finals).
On the date of the definitive interruption of the first division National Football Championship (Girabola2019/2020), Petro de Luanda occupied the first position and 1º de Agosto were second.
[Shabelle] Salaam Somali Bank, the first privately-owned bank in Somalia has sponsored for the fourth consecutive year a conference on Engineering Science and Technology [CEST] held in Mogadishu.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola reported the recovery of 117 Covid-19 patients and 81 new infections, the Health authorities announced Tuesday evening in Luanda.
[New Times] Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) on Wednesday, December 9, handed over 20 cows to 20 families of Cyanika Sector, Burera District, a donation previously pledged by President Paul Kagame.
[New Times] The Minister for Sports, Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju has said that a number of teams in the Rwanda football premier league are being investigated for allegedly giving fake Covid-19 documents.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The trilateral meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will resume on Sunday January 10, 2021 when experts from the three countries are expected to present identified common positions and differences, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[MAP] Biougra -- Public authorities of Chtouka-Ait Baha have announced a 15-day extension of the exceptional measures decided on November 24, to strengthen prevention against the spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19).
Luanda was founded by Portuguese explorer Paolo Dias de Novaes as St. Paul of Luanda in 1576. It became the capital of a Portuguese colony in 1586 and became the capital of independent Angola when the former Portuguese colony gained its independence in 1975. Luanda is also the largest city in Angola with an estimated 2009 population of over 4.5 million. The city is located in the northwestern region of the country on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The most common religions are Catholic, Baptist, and Methodist but missionaries of many faiths reside in Angola. The citys major sports are basketball, soccer, and tennis.
As major port city for Angola in the sixteenth century, Luanda became the center for commercial, political, and cultural affairs. The Portuguese also used Luanda as their major slave trading port until 1836. The end of slave trading caused a temporary decrease in Luanda’s economy and export activity but by the 1840s, the city exported palm and peanut oil, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, tobacco, and cocoa. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries Colonial Portuguese authorities invested in port and rail infrastructure to expand agricultural and mineral exports. By 1940, the city had 61,208 people including nearly 10,000 white inhabitants. After World War II new waves of colonists from overcrowded Portugal arrived. The growth of the European Quarter often meant the displacement of Africans to slums on the edge of the city.
Despite the poor housing conditions, Luanda offered more employment and educational opportunities than in the rural areas and increasingly drew Africans from the interior. Many of these new residents in turn began to support independence movements and call for the end of Portuguese rule. Luanda became the center of nationalist activity. It also became the leading place in the colony to celebrate indigenous culture with events like the annual Carnival festival.
Angolan independence came in 1975 when by that point the city had 475,000 people. Independence was
Luanda — The Institute of Assets Management and State Participation (IGAPE) has extended to June 23 this year, the deadline for applications to be submitted for the public tender of 12 State-owned agro-industrial companies.
The extension of the deadline, according to the justification of IGAPE that reached ANGOP, aims to meet the requests of the various investors who are unable to visit the assets, as a result of the sanitary cordon imposed in Luanda during the prevailing State of Calamity in the country.
This time, investors interested in the public tender for the privatization of 12 agro-industrial enterprises located in various parts of the country should submit the applications until 3 July.
The companies are Caconda, Matala (Huila), Caála (Huambo), Catabola (Bié) and Ganda (Benguela) Silos complexes, the Cubal agro-industrial complex, the Dombe Grande (Benguela) cold stores, the Namibe cold store, the Dombe Grande tomato and can processing plants, Namibe cold store and Malanje slaughterhouse.
IGAPE says it will have to issue a special permit so that investors can verify the current state of the companies.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The health authorities announced Friday the registration of 60 new cases, eight recovered patients and two deaths, in the last 24 hours.
[Nation] Jacob Obunga, popularly known as 'Otile Brown', and Nadia Mukami, have emerged as Boomplay's most streamed Kenyan artistes of 2020, according to the company's latest music fact report.
[The Herald] Municipal Reporter
Jamaica on Tuesday recorded one more COVID-19 death, pushing the tally to 266.\tThe deceased is a 60-year-old woman from Kingston and St Andrew.\tMeanwhile, there were 98 new cases with ages ranging from six to 95 years, pushing the total to 11,369...
Henry Francis Downing was an author, playwright, consul and sailor. He was born in New York City in 1846, the son of Henry and Nancy Downing. His family maintained an oyster business that had been owned by his grandfather, Thomas Downing, a well known freeman. His uncle was famed New York businessman and civil rights leader, George Thomas Downing.
In 1864 Henry Downing enlisted in the Union Navy at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He began his service on board the U.S.S. North Carolina and was transferred to the U.S.S. Pawtuxet in December of 1864. Navy records listed him as having deserted in 1865, though it was later revealed he left the ship to attend his stepfather’s funeral, and his mother had obtained his discharge so that he could assist her.
After the Civil War, Downing began a journey around the world. He reached Liberia where his cousin, Hilary Johnson, would later become president of Liberia from 1884 to 1892. Downing lived in Liberia for three years where he was a private secretary to the secretary of state.
Downing returned to the United States and in 1872, reenlisted in the Navy and served for three years. Most of his time was served on the U.S.S. Hartford which operated off the coast of East Africa. With considerable time spent in both West and East Africa, Downing was one of the African Americans most knowledgeable about the African continent and its politics.
Returning to New York in 1875, Downing became a messenger and clerk of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In 1876 at the age of 33, he married a woman named Isadora. The couple had two children.
By the 1880s, Downing became involved in New York politics and was a supporter of the Democrats and New York Governor Grover Cleveland. When Cleveland was elected President in 1884, Downing was rewarded for his support by an appointment as U.S. counsel to Luanda, Angola. He served in this post from 1886 to 1887, leaving because he was unsuccessful in getting significant American trade with this African nation.
After his resignation Downing returned to New
[New Zimbabwe] Suspended notorious armed robber, Musa Taj Abdul was Thursday remanded in custody the state brought in three more three more charges against him.
