ADDIS ABABA/BRUSSELS, 1 May, 2021 (TON): The construction of more factories in the pharmaceutical sector in Africa is one of the priorities in the cooperation between the African Union and the European Union.

President of the European Council, Charles Michel said while visiting a COVID-19 vaccination centre in Luanda, that the strong European bloc is working with African countries to achieve this goal.

Michel said, "This is a priority for the African Union and the European Union is mobilized one hundred percent in moving in this direction, they are working with the European Investment Bank. I have spoken to many African leaders to get it, as soon as possible. Because it is very important in terms of the future for Africa, but also for Europe because that means diversification of the supply chain and that is also good for us. That's why we want to cooperate with governments but also with the private sector" the president of the European Council explained.”

During his short visit to Angola, Charles Michel also met with President João Lourenço.

The Angolan President assumed that the country's economy was strongly dependent on the oil sector and consequently vulnerable.

"The Angolan economy has always been strongly dependent on revenues from the export of crude oil, which is wrong and even dangerous because it is a product with very volatile prices that do not depend only on the will of the producers" Lourenço said in his address.

However, earlier, the president of the European Council met with the acting president of the African Union and also of the DRC, Félix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa, with whom he discussed the mechanisms for resolving the security crisis in the country.