Ambassador Sianga Abílio exalted, on March 08, 2023, in Nairobi, the role played by Angolan women in the resistance fight against the Portuguese colonial occupation and slave trade, armed struggle for national liberation and in the ongoing process of building Angola as a free and independent country.
Ambassador Sianga Abílio who was speaking to diplomats, members of the Angolan community and employees of the Diplomatic Mission in a ceremony commemorating International Women's Day, highlighted as an example of the historical action of Angolan women the important role played by Queen Njinga Mbandi in the XVII century and the bravery of the heroines Deolinda Rodrigues, Lucrécia Paim, Engrácia Santos, Irene Cohen, Teresa Afonso and many others, during the armed struggle for the conquest of National Independence.
Nowadays, said the Angolan Ambassador to Kenya, Angola is one of the African countries in the front line in a process that is being led by the President of the Republic, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, of recognition of the qualities of women aiming at their integration in management and leadership positions, this is a reason to highlight the important positions held by women such as Vice-President of the Republic, President of the National Assembly, Vice-President of MPLA, head of the Constitutional and Audit Courts, nine female Ministers in the government and 83 female Members of Parliament out of a total of 220 which corresponds to 37.7 per cent of women in parliament.
Meanwhile, the Ambassador Sianga Abílio acknowledged that in order to achieve true gender equality which defends that in a society men and women should enjoy the same opportunities, income, rights and obligations in all areas, there is still a lot to do and one of the ongoing actions in our country is focused on the empowerment of women through capacity building because as he said, empowering a woman is empowering a family and at the same time empowering a society.
The ceremony organized by the Angolan Embassy in Nairobi to commemorate the International Women's Day included a lecture on the participation of women in management and leadership bodies and in international organizations at which the Minister Counsellor Efigénia Jorge was the speaker.
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