The Vice-President of Angola, Esperança da Costa, arrived Wednesday in central Huambo province for a three-day working visit, as part of the privileged monitoring of the General Education, Higher Education and Environment sector.
The Vice-President’s agenda includes visits to the Center for Tropical Ecology and Climate Change (CETAC) and to higher education institutions, with emphasis on the faculties of Veterinary Medicine, Economics and Law.
According to the local government programme, Esperança da Costa is expected to assess the operating conditions of the Huambo Municipal Hospital and the Vocational Training Center of the Benguela Railway (CFB), ANGOP has learnt.
It also includes an update presentation on Road and Traffic Planning in the province, a visit to the Girls and Women in Science Fair and a meeting with the academic class.
The Vice-President is scheduled to visit strategic social and economic sites and meet with rural women.
With a territorial extension of 35,771 square kilometers and a p
opulation density above 2.6 million inhabitants, Huambo is located in the central region of the country made up of 11 municipalities, 37 communes and 3,387 villages.
Source: Angola Press News Agency