Day: May 5, 2023

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Ambassador highlights dissemination of Portuguese language

Angolan ambassador to Namibia Jovelina Imperial highlighted Friday in Windhoek the importance of promoting and internationalising the Portuguese Language in the world, ahead of the 5th of May, World Day of the Portuguese Language.

The diplomat was speaking during an interview on the Breakfast and Desert Programme, on The Namibian Radio, also attended by the ambassadors of Brazil and Portugal.

Jovelina Imperial said that Angola, as President “Pro Tempore” of the CPLP, has been developing activities, aimed at making Portuguese better known and spoken in different spheres of work, mainly in international organisations.

She pointed out, as an example, that more than 100,000 people in Namibia speak Portuguese, and it is one of the preferred languages in Namibian schools.

May 5 was established by UNESCO in 2019, as World Portuguese Language Day.

Portuguese Language is the fourth most spoken in the world.

This year the date is being celebrated under the motto: “Realities, challenges and opportunities in the space of the Portuguese language”.

The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) is an organisation made up of nine countries.

They are Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

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SADC region central bank governors meet in Luanda

National Bank of Angola (BNA) hosts the 56th meeting of the Committee of Central Bank Governors (CCBG) of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on 10-12 May, with view to discussing the financial system of region.

The high-level meeting globally foresees to performe analysis of the Financial System of the SADC Region, with stress to the payment systems, banking regulation and supervision, clearing and settlement, states a press note reached ANGOP.

The governors are also expected to discuss the issue of the repatriation of banknotes and coins, the impact of exchange controls on cross-border flows of goods, services and capital, as well as exchanges in training staff.

This initiative of the Committee of Central Bank Governors of SADC also envisages the creation of a database of monetary and financial statistics, an information bank on the structures and policies of central banks and financial markets in the SADC countries.

The CCBG was established in August 1995 as part of the Finance and Investment Sector of SADC. It was established due to the need for a specialised body in SADC to promote and achieve closer co operation among central banks within the Community.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

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Banking sector gets ESAAMLG’s thumbs up

Angolan banking financial sector has received approval, in compliance with technical standards, from the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG), a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) institution.

The approval owed to the fact that Angola has defended, at the end of March, in Arusha, Tanzania, the Mutual Evaluation Report, at the technical meeting of the ESAAMLG “task force”.

The results of Angola’s mutual evaluation process, within the scope of the FATF, were shared by the Governor of the National Bank of Angola, Lima Massano, during a consultation meeting and regular consultations held with members of the Angolan Association of Banks (ABANC).

The meeting with ABANC, according to the BNA publication to which ANGOP had access, aimed to analyse various current economic and financial issues, including proposals for reviewing training programmes on the prevention of money laundering, the implementation of regulatory reforms of a prudential nature and the applicable modalities.

After this step, the results of the “task force” discussions will be submitted to knowledge and subsequent deliberation in the plenary of the Council of Ministers of this FATF regional organisation, to be held in the months of September and October of this year.

The ESAAMLG is the group of the countries in Southern and East Africa, created to monitor countries’ progress towards compliance and implementation of the FATF Recommendations in their jurisdictions, concerning the prevention and combating of money laundering and terrorist financing.

The group comprises 17 countries. They are Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, South Africa, Namibia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Seychelles, Swaziland, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho, Mauritius and Zimbabwe.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

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Angola win 33 medals on second day of zone IV Swimming Championship

Angola’s national team finished Thursday in style the second day of the African Zone IV Championship, which ends on Sunday in Luanda.

Angolan team remain in second place in the overall medal standings, now with nine gold, five silver and the same number of bronze, making a total of 33 over the two days of competition.

Among the gold medals, stands out that obtained by Silvério Manuel (2.54.13), in the 200m breaststroke, relegating silver to Mozambican Mason Cohen (2.45.77) and bronze to Namibian Liam Kinnaird (2.45.71).

Another reference, Marco Furtado, who won gold in the 50m butterfly (29.02), after winning the bronze medal in the 2022 edition, in Zambia.

Marco edged Namibian Lorenzo Esterhuizen in second (29.02) and Mozambican Abdul dos Santos in third (29.72).

In the 200m freestyle, athlete Herinque Mascarenhas beat the competition (1.56.50), after being seconded by Mozambican Kaio Faftine (1.59.54), while Namibian Marco Henning took bronze (1.59.86 ).

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

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Disability is not reason for illiteracy

The govenment of Cameroon, together with the Cameroon Baptist Convention health services say they are determined to make education available for all children living with disabilities.

“We are trying to teach teachers to have inclusive skills so they can attend to both children with disabilities and those without. We have equally donated equipments to the GCE board and to other schools,” Prof Tih Pius Mofe, Director of the CBC health service says.

“We have to think about putting in place strategies that will really transform our educational system. We have about 70 schools for inclusive education and we are working together with the Cameroon Baptist health service to give these children living with disabilities a chance at education just like other children,” Pauline Irene Nguene, Minister of social affairs adds.

“I have noticed that most of these children with disabilities are extremely smart and brilliant. We are calling on parents with children having disabilities to send their kids to school. We are trying our best to ensure that they become something in the society and are not forced to stay back at home while others get trained. It is not their making they were born the way they are. We love them too and want the best for them. I have a child with disability and I love him even three times more than the others. I make him feel extremely special. They need it. They get easily traumatized when they see other children doing what they cannot do,” Sophie Njie a CBC worker and a parent explains.

A campaign has been launched by the Ministry of Social Affairs together with the Cameroon Baptist Convention health services to step up the education of children with these disabilities. This campaign was launched in Yaounde this May 05, 2023. The Minister of social affairs, Pauline Irene Nguene says it is time to move from policy to action. She also urged every parent to send their disabled child to school or let them acquire skills.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

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Online content creators urged to desist from practices that instigate hate speech

A workshop organized by the Defyhatenow Civic Watch in Douala on May 4 2023 served as an opportunity to tell online content creators to consider the effects of their content first before publication.

Facilitators speaking during the workshop said many media professionals have found themselves propagating hate speech, at times without knowing because they didn’t take time to fact-check or reflect on the effects.

Kinang Derick Fai, Conflict Research and Administrative Coordinator for Defyhatenow, said the session in Douala was meant to bring media professionals together so that they could talk about responsible use of the social media. “We wanted to look at ourselves eyeball to eyeball and critically examine some of our publications,” he said.

“We wanted to see among ourselves if there was a better way we could produce some of this content in a responsible way without violating the community standards of the different platforms we use,” the coordinator added.

He noted that the Defyhatenow project is organized in collaboration with Meta, which is why they decided to do a study of online platforms like Facebook and Instagram, as well as Twitter and Tik Tok among others. “We wanted to see how these platforms are being used by these different content creators and influencers,” the facilitator indicated.

Participants were encouraged to avoid making publications because they want to please followers or simply because they want to put food on their table. “You must not do it the wrong way,” the media experts were told.

The content creators were urged to be peace builders and persons who use the digital space to build a better society.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

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