Agência Angola Press
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | July 1975 |
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Luanda Angola
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| management | Manuel da Conceição (Chairman of the Management Board) Luisa Pedro Francisco Damião (Editor-in-Chief) |
| Number of employees | 300 (2010) |
| Branch | News agency |
| Website | Homepage ANGOP |
Agência Angola Press abbreviated to ANGOP is the state news agency of Angola . Its shape is that of a stock corporation . It is a company with its own legal personality, administrative and financial autonomy. The General Director and Head of the State Agency is Manuel da Conceição .
The ANGOP was founded as Agência Nacional Angola Press (ANAP) in July 1975 in the capital Luanda . In October of the same year, ANGOP took over its current and final name “Agência Angola Press” at the suggestion of the then President Agostinho Neto and will start on the 30th of the month under the new abbreviation. The first message appeared on October 30, 1975 in the form of a bulletin .
ANGOP has five offices abroad (Portugal, Brazil, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe and Congo) and enjoys formal autonomy and editorial independence under the laws of the Angolan state.
The aim of ANGOP is to collect, process and distribute news exclusively in Angola and abroad, nationally and internationally. The messages are disseminated by means of electronic networking via the Internet or e-mail . Major international news agencies such as Thomson Reuters , Associated Press , Agence France-Presse and others use ANGOP as a source of information and maintain partnerships. The ANGOP was awarded the "International Gold Star for Quality" award in 1990 and 1992 by the Directions Business Initiative. The agency also received the “World Quality Commitment Award” from JX BAN Image Kunst in 1996, both companies are based in Madrid .
In 1996, ANGOP was a founding member of Aliança das Agências de Informação de Língua Portuguesa (ALP), the association of Portuguese-language news agencies. The second president of the ALP until 2013 was Daniel Miguel Jorge, then head of the ANGOP.