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Angola: Media Ministry to Focus on Journalistic Training

Posted on: Tuesday, 22 November 2005, 12:00 CST

Text of report in English by Angolan news agency Angop website

The Mass Media Ministry action programme for 2006 will continue to focus on specific training of journalists, above all for the electoral process.

It was said on Monday [21 November] in Luanda by the minister of mass media, Manuel Rabelais, during a meeting with Members of the National Assembly (Angolan parliament), dedicated to the analysis, in speciality, of the 2006 state budget.

Mr Rabelais said that such training aims at preparing the journalists for an adequate intervention in the whole process, namely the population's civic education and sensitisation campaign for the electoral registration and vote.

According to the cabinet minister, in 2006 the government will carry on the mass media reform programme, the institutional strengthening and improvement of the media organs' technological equipment.

Thus, he forwarded, it is expected to give a special attention to the approval either by the government or the National Assembly of legal diplomas linked to the mass media, namely the Law on Press, Right of Airtime, Citizens' Response, which are part of the electoral legislative package.

The Ministry of Mass Media will keep expanding the signal of the National Radio of Angola (RNA) and Public Television (TPA) throughout the country, expecting 85 per cent coverage until the end of next year.

According to the Angolan minister, it is also expected a huge technological investment at the level of radio and television, in which the last one will count on a state of the art production centre located in the country capital and four others in the provinces of Benguela, Huambo, Huila and Cabinda.

Source: BBC Monitoring Media

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