Angolan-Swedish relations

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The Angolan-Swedish relations include bilateral relations between Angola and Sweden .

Since Sweden's positive attitude towards the liberation movements in Angola during the Portuguese colonial war (1961–1975) and its increased development aid there, the relationship has been considered good.

history

In the 17th century Sweden had smaller colonies in Africa for a while. However, Swedish merchant ships drove hardly further south than to the Swedish possessions on the Gold Coast in West Africa, so that they rarely came to Angola, which, as a Portuguese colony, maintained a lively exchange of goods with the European mainland, past the Portuguese and Swedish bases on the west coast of Africa .

In 1961 the Portuguese colonial war broke out in Angola . The Swedish missionaries, who were also active in Angola, were mostly seen as sympathizers and in part also as supporters of the independence movements.

In 1970, Sweden began its first development aid projects in what was then a Portuguese colony as part of its development policy. At times the Scandinavian country had so many development projects in various areas that the Swedish embassy in Luanda became one of the largest foreign missions in Sweden. After the last projects expired in 2010, the diplomatic mission shrank to one of the smallest, with an ambassador and only three local embassy employees. Since then, economic relations have been the main focus of embassy activities and Angolan-Swedish relations as a whole. For years, Angola has been one of the 26 most important countries in Swedish foreign trade policy.

In February 2020, the two countries agreed on a number of collaborations, for example in the expansion of renewable energies or digital communications and online services, but above all the sending of Swedish experts to train the state anti-corruption authority IGAE ( Inspecção Geral da Administração do Estado ). Ewa Polano , the Swedish ambassador to Angola who will take office in 2019, led the Swedish commission in the negotiations.

The Angolan Embassy in Stockholm (2009)

diplomacy

Angola has an embassy in the Swedish capital Stockholm.

Sweden has an embassy in the Angolan capital Luanda.

Mutual consulates have not been set up.

Sports

Dominique Kivuvu in the jersey of the Romanian first division club CFR Cluj (2010), after which he moved to the Swedish Mjällby AIF for a year

The men's Angolan and Swedish national football teams have not yet met, including the women's (as of February 2020).

Players from Angola occasionally appear for Swedish clubs, including Angolan internationals like Yamba Asha , Dominique Kivuvu and Paulo José Lopes Figueiredo .

Web links

Commons : Angolan-Swedish Relations  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b In dialogue with the ambassador of Sweden in Luanda , conversation from January 2020 with the new Swedish ambassador for Angola on the website of the Portuguese-Swedish Chamber of Commerce, accessed on March 21, 2020
  2. ↑ TV report of the state television Angola TPA , recording on YouTube , accessed on April 19, 2020
  3. ↑ Suécia fornece tecnologia para acelerar crescimento económico - "Sweden delivers technology to accelerate economic growth" , article from February 13, 2020 by the Angolan state news agency ANGOP , accessed on April 19, 2020