Luanda – Angola and Egypt seek to strengthen bilateral cooperation with the exchange of experiences in the field of public works and housing, an official source told ANGOP on Friday.
To this end, the Minister of Public Works, Urban Planning and Housing (MINOPUH), Carlos Alberto Gregório dos Santos, is travelling to Cairo to learn from the vast experience of Egypt in the area of civil construction.
Egypt is building a new capital in the middle of the desert, in an investment of 60 billion euros. Also designated as the new administrative capital, it is in this new city where the “Iconic Tower”, the tallest skyscraper in Africa, 385 meters high, is being completed, says a MINOPUH note.
At the invitation of the Government of Egypt, for a period from the 7th to the 11th of this month, Carlos Alberto Gregório dos Santos and the senior staff accompanying him will have meetings with Egyptian minister of Housing, Public Services and Urban Development, Assem El-Gazzar, with largest Egyptian companies in the sector, a guided tour to the new administrative capital, followed by the showing of a video of infrastructure projects.
The note adds that the Embassy of Angola in Cairo will organize economic investment meetings Egypt-Angola/23 for the private sector, with the participation of 15 Angolan companies and more than 40 large Egyptian companies in public works, construction, infrastructure, basic sanitation, roads and housing.
“These meetings constitute a platform for dialogue for reflection and the establishment of partnerships between businessmen from both countries, and for the reinforcement of intra-African cooperation”, states the note.
Relations between the Republic of Angola and the Arab Republic of Egypt date back to the 1960s, with the involvement of Angolan nationalists in the struggle for independence, having been strengthened in 1976 with the opening of the Embassy in that country.
