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Campaign to vaccinate over 90,000 children against polio

Saurimo - At least 97,919 children from zero to five years of age are expected to be vaccinated during an integral campaign against polio to take place in eastern Lunda Sul province on October 23 to...

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Angola: Integrated campaign to vaccinate over 900,000 children

Caxito - At least 960,000 children are expected to be vaccinated in seven provinces during an integrated vaccination campaign against Polio, Vitamin A, and Measles/Rubella. The campaign running until...

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Government ensures training of refugees

Dundo - At least 1,542 refugee children located in Lóvua camp, Lunda Norte province are inserted in the normal teaching and learning system in the present school year, as part of the social...

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Angola accommodates over 52, 000 refugees

Luanda - Angola is home to 52.671 foreigners of various nationalities, who benefit from protection and social assistance as well as have access to birth registration of the children born into...

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Malnutrition claims 100 lives in Bié

Cuito - About 144 children died in the first half of this year, victims of malnutrition, in ten controlled health units in the province of Bié, one more death than in the same period before. The...

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Road Map for Improving the Availability, Access and Use of Disaster Risk Information for Early Warning and Early Action, including in the Context of Transboundary Risk Management

Executive summary This road map identifies activities and practical recommendations aiming to improve the availability, accessibility and use of risk information at the continental, regional,...

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Cacolo/Alto Chicapa road cleared of landmines

Cacolo - The road linking the Cacolo and Alto Chicapa municipalities, in eastern Lunda Sul province, has been cleared of landmines after varied explosive devices were removed by the 14th Brigade of...

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Polio vaccination campaign to reach over 400,000 children in Benguela

Benguela - Benguela province will vaccinate 419,419 children from zero to five years of age against polio, from 4 to 6 September this year, said Tuesday in this city the provincial public health...

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INAD clears 20,000 square meters of landmines

During the mine clearance campaign, which took place in Kalambata and Nkiende communes, as well as in the municipal headquarters, Mbanza Kongo, and in Sumba commune (Soyo), INAD sappers had removed...

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Huila: Humpata municipal hospital reinaugurated

Humpata - An amount of AKz 250 million was spent on rehabilitation, enlargement and equipment of the municipal hospital of Humpata municipality in southern Huila province. Re-inaugurated by the...

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INAD destroys 49 explosive devices

Lubango - At least forty-nine undetonated explosive devices were collected and destroyed in Huila province by the National Institute of Demining (INAD) during the last six months, 12 more than in the...

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Angola redoubles border surveillance with DRC over Ebola

Dundo - The eastern Lunda Norte government is intensifying precautionary measures in the border areas with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to halt the import and spread of Ebola in Angolan...

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Over a million square metres of land demined in Soyo

M'banza Kongo - At least 1.2 million square metres of land plot are being demined since last April, in the Municipality of Soyo, northern Zaire Province, for the construction of a future gas...

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Huambo records 158,000 cases of malaria in three months

Huambo - The number of malaria cases registered between January and March this year in the province of Huambo increased from 127,000 in the same period of last year to 158,000. In a statement to the...

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Heavy rains leave over 80 people homeless

Sumbe - At least 89 people of the Quissongo commune, Libolo municipality, in central Cuanza Sul province have been left homeless following the collapse of 14 residences caused by heavy rains that...

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Vulnerable people receive food aid in northern Uige

Uíge - At least 12 tons of goods of the staple food were delivered on Saturday to the government of the northern Uíge Province by the Mauritanian community to minimize the need of the most vulnerable...

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Cuban doctors due in Angola on Friday

Luanda - Two hundred and forty-four Cuban doctors are expected Friday (10) in the country to support in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The information was released Thursday by the Minister...

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Rain displaces 778 families in Ndalatando

Ndalatando - The rain that fell Friday over Ndalatando, capital of the province of Cuanza Norte, for eight straight hours, destroyed 263 homes, thus displacing 778 families. According to the report...