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.