The United Nations refugee agency has rushed relief items to help tens of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month.

They were in the final in both the women and men's categories.

The coordinator of the supervising team of the secretariat of the ruling MPLA party's politburo for the eastern Moxico province, Bornito de Sousa, appealed to the organisation's militants to take part in the debates of the Future Constitution.

At least 67,000 firearms have been collected countrywide, as part of the process of disarmament civilians in illegal possession of firearms.

The Angolan embassy in Greece praised the work done by the Angola Press Agency (Angop).

Twenty volunteer youths participate as from this Friday in a training seminar on community health, promoted by Angola Red Cross (CVA)'s local delegation.

The outgoing first secretary of the ruling MPLA party in central Huambo province, António Paulo Kassoma, Friday here called on militants to continue developing the spirit of tolerance, unity, reconciliation and peaceful democratic association, without discrimination

Kenya's bid for a larger share of the southern Africa fresh produce market took a fresh blow after the Angolan government banned banana imports from Kenya in a move aimed at curbing the spread of banana wilt disease in the region.

The world is a weird place. This week two prominent Frenchmen were given gaol sentences for their role in arms trafficking in Angola during the civil war period from 1993 to 1998.

Bié Province population is flocking to the Identity Card issuing posts for new cards (ID), ANGOP learnt from the justice department local director, Mateus Balanca.

MPLA provincial committee of Luanda will be represented with 115 delegates in the party's sixth congress, set for 07-10 December in the capital city, ANGOP has learnt.

Zambian ambassador to Angola, Marina Mukolokota Nsingo, said Wednesday in Luanda that politico-diplomatic relations between the two countries are based on principles agreed at the first permanent conference of cooperation, held in 1979.

The Angolan ambassador, Luís Neto Kiambata, said Wednesday in Luanda it is "essential" and "indispensable" for the Angola Press Agency (Angop) management to pay more attention to the training of its personnel and keep pace with world technological evolution.

The Government of Angola is stupefied with the ruling by the Paris Court that convicted French citizens who in opportune time had helped the African country to guarantee the defence of the State and the democratic process amid the armed subversion condemned by the international community and by the United Nations, in particular.

An emergency programme aimed at strengthening the thermoelectric capacity of Luanda will be implemented between next December and April of 2010 to provide 200 megawatts of electrical power, with the functioning of four new central stations, that may work on isolated basis.

Angola's 2010 budget increased spending by 50% compared to the previous year, which is good news for investors who depend on government infrastructure contracts.

United Nations agencies are preparing to airlift tents and an emergency response team to help scores of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as each country continues to drive out its neighbour's nationals.

Angolan minister of Family and Women Promotion Genoveva Lino Monday in coastal Kwanza Sul province, called on women to attend literacy classes, in order to learn about the reality of the country and world.

At least 2,000 plastic sheets and a Kamaz car were handed over by the International Organisation for Migration to assist Angola citizens that had been repatriated from the Democratic Republic of Congo and settled in the northern Zaire priovince, Angop has learnt.

The Constitutional Commission of the National Assembly (Angolan Parliament) Tuesday in Luanda adopted the texts for the presentation of the three drafts that once condensed will give rise to the final version of the future constitution for the Republic of Angola.