2019 in Angola
Angola-related events during the year of 2019
Events in the year 2019 in Angola.
Current leaders
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- 23 January – The National Assembly agrees on new criminal rules, the country's first one since independence in 1975. Among the new rules passed, according to Human Rights Watch, was making same-sex activity no longer illegal and the outlawing of discrimination based on sexual orientation.[1]
- 13 March – A place holding between 450 and 600 million containers of oil is discovered off the Angolan coast by the Italian company Eni.[2]
- 22 March – The Angola national football team qualifies for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations finals following a 1–0 win over Botswana in Francistown.[3]
- 30 April – A UNICEF report reveals that drought in the first three months of the year has caused the number of Angolans in the southern Cunene Province needing humanitarian assistance to triple to more than 800,000. The report also states that about 2.3 million people in the country are now at danger of not having a stable amount of food, with severe hunger affecting 2,500 children under the age of five in six provinces.[4]
- 8 May – President João Lourenço gets rid of Carlos Saturnino from his role as Chief Executive of the state oil company Sonangol after fuel shortages cause power cuts and long lines at petrol stations in the capital Luanda.[5]
July to December
change- 2 July – The Angola national football team is removed after losing from the Africa Cup of Nations after a 1–0 defeat to Mali ends their chances of progressing beyond the group stage of the contest.[6]
- 15 August – Former transport minister Augusto da Silva Tomas is found guilty by the Supreme Court of charges including theft of money, fraud, and abuse of power committed during his tenure in office from 2008 to 2017. He is sent to fourteen years in prison.[7]
- 21 August – Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda sign an agreement in Luanda to fix the bad relations between their respective nations after recent accusations of spying, murder, and harming trade.[8]
- 8 September – The men's national basketball team stops going to the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China with one win and four losses from five games.[9]
- 1 November – Aristofanes dos Santos, the provincial commander of the national police, announces that national firearms limiting campaigns over the past eleven years have resulted in the forced removal of more than 100,000 firearms, most of which were found to have connections to the Angolan Civil War.[10]
- 5 December – The International Monetary Fund allows for a $247 million loan to Angola after believing the government's efforts to lower state spending and change the ways in which money was earned in the national economy beyond oil as good.[11]
- 31 December – The belongings of Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of former President José Eduardo dos Santos, are frozen by the government after she is accused of failing to repay $1 billion in goverment funds.[12]
Deaths
change- 9 January – Filipe Abraão, basketball player (born 1979).[13]
- 15 January – Jerónimo Neto, handball coach (born 1967).[14]
- 15 April – Joaquim Alberto Silva, footballer (born 1974).[15]
- 22 November – Eduardo Nascimento, singer (born 1943).[16]
References
change- ↑ "Angola decriminalizes same-sex conduct, rights group says". ABC News. Associated Press. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ↑ Jewkes, Stephen (13 March 2019). Dale Hudson (ed.). "Italy's Eni makes major oil find in Angola". Reuters. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ↑ "Africa Cup of Nations: Angola qualify ahead of Burkina Faso". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ↑ Eisenhammer, Stephen (30 April 2019). Janet Lawrence (ed.). "Drought puts 2.3 million people at risk in Angola - UNICEF". Reuters. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ↑ "Angola sacks Sonangol chief over fuel shortages". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ↑ "Africa Cup of Nations round-up: Ghana, Cameroon qualify for last 16". Sky Sports. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ↑ Mendes, Candido (15 August 2019). "Angola Jails Most Senior Official Yet After Corruption Trial". Bloomberg. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ↑ "Presidents of Rwanda and Uganda sign pact to ease tensions". Al Jazeera. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ↑ Naredo, Camille B. (8 September 2019). "FIBA World Cup: Tunisia escapes with close win over Angola to top Group N". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ↑ "Over 110,000 firearms collected in Angola's disarmament campaigns". Xinhua. 1 November 2019. Archived from the original on 8 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ↑ Toyana, Mfuneko (6 December 2019). Tim Cocks (ed.). "IMF approves $247 million reform loan to Angola". Reuters. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ↑ Cotterill, Joseph; Pilling, David (31 December 2019). "Angola freezes Isabel dos Santos's assets over graft allegations". Financial Times. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ↑ "Former basketball player Filipe Abraão dies". Agência Angola Press. 10 January 2019. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ↑ "Handball: Former national team coach Jerónimo Neto dies". Agência Angola Press. 16 January 2019. Archived from the original on 17 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ↑ "Morreu Quinzinho, ex-jogador do FC Porto". Diário de Noticías (in Portuguese). 16 April 2019. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
- ↑ "Morreu Eduardo Nascimento, a voz de O Vento Mudou na Eurovisão". Publico (in Portuguese). Lusa News Agency. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2020.