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The national director for copyrights and similar, Pinto Baptista, on Wednesday in Luanda advised Angolan artists to get the habit of registering their creative works in the competent institutions of the State, as a way of protecting their rights against others. (AllAfrica)

Angolan plastic artist Fernando Alvim on Wednesday here said that the Natural History Museum has been hosting a high number of exhibitions of quality, but lately it no longer has conditions to respond to the requests for expositions in that venue. (AllAfrica)

Angola will host the second Summit of heads of State and Government of the countries of the Gulf of Guinea scheduled for November 25 in Luanda. (AllAfrica)

MP Gustavo da Conceiço said Wednesday in Luanda that there is a need for major investment in training programmes for younger categories and professionalisation of sports in Angola, as important factors for the development of this area. (AllAfrica)

The Social Solidarity Fund "Fundo Lwini" released Tuesday in Luanda a collection of six postal stamps and a book entitled "Em defesa da pessoa portadora de deficiência vítima de minas". (AllAfrica)

The political parties that attained less than 0,5 percent of the valid votes from the legislative election of September 5 this year might be declared extinguished, according to the Electoral Law. (AllAfrica)

The 53rd edition of the S ã o Silvestre race already has monetary funds granted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports and which is in Angolan Athletics Federation (FAA), ANGOP learnt this Wednesday from an official source. (AllAfrica)

Habuba Soleiman, one of the three members of the inspection commission of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), will lecture a workshop from next Thursday and Friday, at the Aníbal de Melo Press Centre, to staff of the CAN2010 organising committee. (AllAfrica)

The Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, this Wednesday here received a verbal message from the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, concerning the state of bilateral ties. (AllAfrica)

Lecturers of the Agostinho Neto University (UAN) will benefit from masters and doctorate scholarships in France, following the signing on Tuesday, in Luanda, of a cooperation agreement between the institution and the French Embassy in Angola. (AllAfrica)

The Constitutional Court (TC) is conquering its place and playing the role of guarantor and controller of accomplishment and compliance with the Constitution. (AllAfrica)

Registration for "Premio Cidade de Luanda" contest in the categories of plastic arts, song, dance, literature and theatre, have opened here, to celebrate the foundation of Angola's capital city on January 25. (AllAfrica)

Angola will attend the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Strategy Forum the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), set for November 26-27 in Malawi. (AllAfrica)

The first chairman of the Angolan Basketball Federation (FAB), José Guimares, defended this Wednesday in Luanda the necessity for better inter-connection between the ministries of youths and sports and education for the reactivation of school sport. (AllAfrica)

At least 3.3 million Euros will start being spent on a project funded by the European Union (EU) for the improvement of the access to water and to pasture by herding communities of the transhumance corridor in the southern provinces of Huíla, Namibe and Cunene. (AllAfrica)

Education improvement and the family's role in the child's schooling process, are topics being discussed at a workshop on "The role of education in Angola", jointly held this Wednesday in Dundo city, by the government of north-eastern Luanda Norte province and the Eduardo dos Santos Foundation (FESA). (AllAfrica)

Northern Malanje province will host for November 19 to 21 the 16th annual consultative council of the local telecommunications company dubbed Angola Telecom, which assess the activities carried out and analyse the evolution of human recourses and projects of restructuring staves of the firm. (AllAfrica)

Angola's central Bie province governor, Cândida Celeste da Silva, Tuesday in Kuito, appealed to the in habitants of Katabola district to cooperate with the local Government in the implementation of social projects. (AllAfrica)

The minister was speaking during the a session of the National Assembly that approval of the State Budget for 2009 and corresponding Government National Plan.

The U.N.'s special envoy on Congo met the Central African country's main rebel leader for the first time Sunday in a bid to end the crisis, as the U.N. reported more heavy fighting elsewhere in the east.

Angola Press Agency 3 November 2008 Vienna Opec countries must implement agreed production cuts if they want stable oil prices, the cartel's head has warned.

Angola Press Agency 23 October 2008 Kampala The three economic sub-regions, Common Market of Southern and East Africa , Southern Africa Development Community and the East Africa Community Wednesday in Kampala, ...

On the first-ever Global Handwashing Day, 15 October, students and teachers from more than 700 participating schools across Angola engaged in symbolic acts of handwashing and listened to government leaders ...

Angola Press Agency 21 October 2008 Luanda A delegation from the Angolan Oil Ministry, led by the incumbent minister, Botelho de Vasconcelos, is to travel this week to Austria to attend an extraordinary session ...

Capoeira Master Manuel - Bola 8' plays a berimbau as his students practice in Sambizanga, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Luanda LUANDA: Black teenagers in white robes spin in circles, throwing their feet ...

The Angolan music producer Simmons Massini expressed last Tuesday in Luanda his satisfaction at the emergence, in recent years, of new talented Angolan musicians. (AllAfrica)

The Angolan writer Isabel Ferreira will travel this week to Brazil, where she will release, on November 20, her latest literary work entitled "O Guardador de Memórias" (The memories keeper). (AllAfrica)

A delegation of Angola's ruling MPLA party headed by its secretary general, Julião Mateus Paulo "Dino Matrosse", is attending since Monday in the Nueva Vallarta state, Mexico, the meeting of the Socialist International, ANGOP has learnt. (AllAfrica)

Angola's national males chess team obtained their second victory in the Olympiad being held in Dresden, Germany, by beating Aruba by 4-0, in a 5th round match of the competition. (AllAfrica)

Angolan Culture minister, Rosa Cruz e Silva, Tuesday here said that the consequences of cultural flow issued by developed countries requires cultural agents to study seriously this dynamic with view to meet the demands of globalisation. (AllAfrica)

Angolan minister of Agriculture, Afonso Pedro Canga, said in Gaberone, Botswana, that Angola hás been giving its greatest contribution to guarantee food security in the southern region of the continent, in the framework of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). (AllAfrica)