Luanda – Angola’s Vice President of the Republic Esperança da Costa Wednesday addressed the operation of the Science Center of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) during a meeting with a delegation from the organisation headed by minister Maria do Rosário Bragança Sambo.
Speaking to the press, the president of the Council of Ministers of the Southern African Science Center for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL), Maria do Rosário Bragança Sambo, highlighted the financial support for the institution by the German government and the Union European.
Maria do Rosário Bragança Sambo also spoke of the holding, in Angola, of the Southern Africa regional workshop, as part of the Global Monitoring Programme for Environment and Security (GMES), which will include the participation of 32 young people, 12 of them Angolans.
The event is an initiative of SASSCAL and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), aimed at bringing policy decisions from African leaders and other stakeholders on the continent's wetlands, environment and water resources management.
However, she considered "the integration of Angola in multilateral initiatives crucial, as part of human and infrastructural training linked to science and technology".
Maria do Rosário Bragança Sambo added that, with the participation of Angola, the researchers are living up to the financial contribution of the Angolan government in training projects involving students in doctoral programmes at a university in Namibia.
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