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October 12, 2020 at 4:16 pm

The reaction of the Angolan Ministry of Health comes after the government of São Tomé and Príncipe has announced seven “cases imported from Angola”.

“The patients have already come with positive tests done abroad”, said on Thursday, the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health of Sao Tome.

In a press note, the Angolan MINSA states that, “in the face of non-compliance with the prohibition on the exit of the seven infected, there is a process of investigation with the authorities involved”, clarifying that “in the light of the restriction measures, within the scope of and the prevention of Covid-19, nobody leaves or enters Angola without a negative SARS-CoV-2 test on the basis of RT-PCR “.

This is a mandatory guideline at the 4 de Fevereiro International Airport, in Luanda, recalls MINSA, who states that “through the National Institute for Health Research, it carried out the molecular biology testing of passengers, having concluded with seven positives “.

The information regarding the negative and positive results was, according to the Angolan Ministry of Health, “passed to the Embassy of São Tomé and Príncipe in Angola, with the ban on the departure of the seven infected people who would wait for the specific guidance of the Rapid Response Team”.

Angola has 6,366 positive cases, with 218 deaths, 2,743 recovered and 3,405 active.

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11 October 2020 at 15:29

According to the President of the Republic, the Angolan State was harmed by, with a precise number, USD 23.79 billion, through fraudulent contracts with Sonangol, in the order of USD 13.52 billion, plus USD 5.09 billion. via the diamond sector, with the embezzlement to be produced in the companies Sodiam and Endiama, the remaining embezzlement belonging to public companies in other public sectors without defining in detail.

This sum of embezzlement, which the Wall Street Journal emphasizes is double the current value of the country’s International Net Reserves, and slightly less than the total debt of Angola to China, the country’s main creditor, made by João Lourenço, served to detail the assessment of its strategic fight against corruption.

This, at a time when Angola, facing a huge financial crisis due to the pandemic and the low price of oil, is struggling on several fronts to renegotiate its debt, attract foreign investment and manage to improve the relationship with the so-called correspondent banks. may facilitate access to foreign exchange.

Thus, the Angolan Head of State said that, so far, in three years of governance under his responsibility, more than US $ 4 billion in real estate and other assets have been recovered, through arrests or seizures.

Still in this context, according to Lourenço, another 5.4 billion USD are in the process of being recovered through requests for seizure and seizure made by the Attorney General’s Office in several countries, naming Switzerland, the Netherlands and, among others, Portugal and United Kingdom.

In this interview, the President also said that he will proceed with the privatization of at least 30% of Sonangol.

This sale will be made through an international public offering until the end of 2022 and the national oil company will be listed on the stock exchange, and this will happen in one of the most important financial markets in the world.

João Lourenço also said in this interview that the Covid-19 pandemic was responsible for the delay in the national economy’s diversification plans.

He also explained that the US Administration, through the Treasury, had a role in creating mechanisms to combat money laundering and money laundering, as well as in the training of Angolan personnel in this matter.