Luanda - The Vice-President of Angola, Esperança da Costa, on Tuesday received the traditional Queen Nhakatolo in audience, with whom she discussed issues related to early pregnancy and vandalized public properties in the Luvale Kingdom.
Speaking to the press at the end of the audience, Nhakatalo said the fight against early pregnancy involves increasing the number of schools and training centers for young people.
The traditional authority appealed to young people not to vandalize public property, as it belongs to everyone and is much needed by communities, such as fountains, schools, and health posts, among others.
The queen said the meeting with the Vice-President also served to analyze issues related to the new political division of Moxico province, which from 2025 will be divided into Moxico and Moxico Leste.
She thanked the Executive for approving the name Moxico Leste as opposed to Kassai Zambezi, as initially proposed, since the population didn't agree with the name, underlining that she expects the coming governor to be someone who would work with the people and for the development of the province.
Nhakatolo regretted the fact that there are generational conflicts within the Luvale Kingdom and called for the preservation of culture.
The Minister of Culture, Filipe Zau, present at the audience, on his turn defended the need for strategies and policies to be outlined and implementation of projects that can reduce early pregnancy rate in that region of the country.
“Early pregnancy often becomes the responsibility of older people who want to have a younger woman, a situation that doesn't help development,” the minister said.
He stressed that the issue of early pregnancies was of concern to the Vice-President, who was committed to helping resolve the issue.
Environmentalist
The Vice-President granted an audience to environmentalist Fernanda Renée, with whom she discussed aspects related to the environment and ecosystem of the country's sea coast.
Fernanda Renée said that during the meeting she took the opportunity to present her most recent literary work on the Mangroves of Angola recently launched at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York.
The book portrays Angola's mangroves, their diversity, communities, the threats facing these ecosystems and, above all, the actions that Angola has taken to protect and preserve these ecosystems.
Developed in Angola by the Otchiva project the work is the result of technical and scientific and filed work carried out in the six provinces along the coast, namely Cabinda, Zaire, Bengo, Benguela, Cuanza Sul and Luanda, and deals with the importance and specificity of mangroves.
The book launch took place during the Summit of the Future and the 79th UN General Assembly, which brought together more than 130 world leaders with the aim of reaching a new international consensus to tackle critical global challenges and correct flaws in world governance.FMA/ART/AMP
