8 April 2008
Luanda — The ongoing rehabilitation of the country's road infrastructures, under the Roads Institute of Angola (INEA), between 2003 and 2007, guaranteed first job to some 16,000 people, mostly resettled population and former combatants, ANGOP has learnt.
According to a communiqué from INEA, delivered to ANGOP on Tuesday, job opportunities are part of an emergency programme outlined by the Angolan Government, aiming the involvement of population in the repair works of roads, bridges and railways, outside of urban centres with a useful social activity.
With this workforce, the government rehabilitated from 2003 to 2007 about 1,259 kilometres of key road network, and foresees to restore 4,835 kilometres of road by the end of 2008 and it is engaged in recovering 2,400 km of national road network.
During six years of peace the Angolan Government has adjudicated 8,494 kilometres of roads in various provinces and a little more of urban infrastructures in Luanda, aimed at the betterment of traffic circulation in the country's capital.
In the referred period, there were built 13 definitive bridges, 34 metallic installed and 400 other bridges under execution.
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