The Angolan Head of state, José Eduardo dos Santos, on Friday here said the country is facing a very important and historic moment, ANGOP has learnt.

Last-minute radio jingles have been trying to persuade people like Almerindo Malessu to vote on Friday but, like many other Angolans, the jobless father of two thinks the parliamentary elections - the first in the country for 16 years - are a waste of time.

Angola's economy may be booming on the back of high oil prices and strong diamond exports, but six years after a peace deal ended the 27-year civil war, unemployment stands at around 65 percent.

The Angolan Ministry of the Interior on Thursday commended the posture and the civic behaviour of the political parties and coalitions during the electoral campaign for the September 05 parliamentary polls.

The Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, has already put his vote in the ballot box, thus kicking off the voting process taking place in the whole country.

The project of micro-credit and credit for consumption of the Angolan government, launched in September 2005 and mainly designed for rural areas of the country, is a useful tool in a process of combat to hunger, misery and extreme poverty, because it made people become self-employed, considered in Luanda, the CEO of Sol Bank, Coutinho Nobre Miguel.

The Angolan Prime Minister, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, said this Friday in Luanda that the voting process will happen peacefully.

Ongoing development at Katwitwi will soon turn the Katwitwi Border Post into a thriving crossing point for both Namibian and Angolan traders.

The chairman of the African Youths Union (AYU), Seydou Ouattara, on Wednesday in Luanda said that the holding of the legislative elections in Angola will give a great support to democracy in Africa.

The students of the Economics Faculty branch of the central Huambo Province, on Wednesday gained four new class-rooms that were built by the government, in the framework of the improvement of higher education in this region.

The Angolan minister of the Interior, Roberto Leal Monteiro "Ngongo", on Wednesday in Luanda revealed that the police security plan, during the electoral period that will culminate in the legislative elections of September 05 (Friday), is being implemented in full, and no complaints have so far been received in regard to the performance of the corporation.

Angolan Finance minister, José Pedro de Morais, has been nominated among the Personalities of the Year (2008) by the "Foreign Direct Investment" Magazine (FDIM), produced by the renowned "Financial Times Business" group.

The Military Sports Committee of the Armed Forces (FAA) has already sorted out the pre-selections that will represent the Land Forces in the Military Games scheduled to take place in October in Luena, eastern Moxico province.

Seventy eight boxes of Coartem, new medicine designed to combat malaria, were this Tuesday officially handed over in Saurimo city, north-eastern Lunda Sul province, by the assistant national co-ordinator for malaria control, Nilton Saraiva.

Farmers, teachers, nurses and other health technicians have so far benefited from loans worth USD 45 million, granted by Sol Bank, under the implementation of government's programme of credit for consumption and micro-credit, ANGOP learnt.

The satellite telecommunication system of multi-sectoral support called "INFRASAT", inaugurated Tuesday in Luanda by Angolan head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, represents an important step towards the information society in Angola.

Judges of the Constitutional Court this Tuesday here expressed satisfaction at the organisation level and technological equipments available at National Vote Counting Centre.

Angolan minister of Social Communication, Manuel Rabelais, said Tuesday in Luanda, that the country's sole and State-run television station (TPA) production centre is a true "technical and technological revolution."

The Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos this Tuesday here visited the "Lucrécia Paím" maternity hospital and Prenda hospital to learn about the new technologies installed in these health facilities.

Angola received a total of 194,730 foreigners in 2007, which represents a rise of 73,268 (62 percent) as compared with the preceding year that recorded 121,462 visitors.

The speaker of the National Assembly (parliament), Roberto de Almeida leaves this Tuesday for the Republic of Zambia, in representation of the Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, to attend the funeral processions of the Zambian leader, Levy Patrick Muanawasa.

Angolan State-owned media organs received from the head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, new equipment designed to improve their performance.

The coach of Angola's national team of football, Oliveira Gonçalves, expects hard times in the game against Benin, in Cotonou, on Sunday.

Angolan head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, Tuesday in Luanda, inaugurated the country's only and State-owned television station (TPA) production centre, in the Camama area, Kilamba Kiaxi, district.

Angolan head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, said Tuesday in Luanda that the Angola Public Television (TPA) Production Centre might provide a "good service to Angolans and pehraps to the continent and the world."