Isaac Francisco Maria dos Anjos thus leaves the position of Secretary of the President of the Republic for the Productive Sector.
In a statement, the Presidency states that João Lourenço also dismissed Agostinho da Rocha Fernandes da Silva from the position of vice-governor of the province of Cabinda for Technical Services and Infrastructures, appointing Juliano Cuabi Niongue Capita for these functions.
The dismissals follow several changes in the Government in one month.
On October 31, João Lourenço dismissed the Minister of the Interior, Eugénio Laborinho, appointing to his place the previously governor of Luanda, Manuel Homem, who was replaced by the governor of Benguela, Luís Nunes, with the former Minister of Economic Coordination and deputy, Manuel Nunes Júnior.
With Eugénio Laborinho, the Secretary of State for the Interior, José Paulino Cunha da Silva, and the Secretary of State for Technical Assurance, Carlos Armando Albino, also left the Government.
The previous week, João Lourenço had dismissed the national directors of the Migration and Foreigners Service and the Criminal Investigation Service, shortly after, in his speech on the State of the Nation, on October 15, he had accused politicians and parliamentarians of being linked to crimes of smuggling and vandalization of public property.
On the occasion, João Lourenço stated that "the increase in fuel smuggling, the environmental damage resulting from the illegal exploitation of strategic minerals and wood", and the necessary public reinvestment due to the vandalization of public assets, forces us to join forces in a "crusade national campaign against these types of crime".
On November 1st, the president dismissed, "for convenience of service", the Secretary of State for Human Rights and Citizenship of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Ana Celeste Januário, appointing Antónia Cruz Yaba to the position.
In another decree published on the same day, João Lourenço dismissed Brigadier Daniel Raimundo Savihemba, from the position of Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of Operations of the General Staff of the Angolan Armed Forces, appointing him 2nd Commander of the Ad-Hoc Verification Mechanism for the Pacification of the Eastern Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after hearing the National Security Council.
On November 8, the president once again changed the structures of police agencies, promoting the general commander of the national police, Arnaldo Carlos, to Secretary of State for the Interior of the Ministry of the Interior.
Cristino Mário Ndeitunga, until then vice-governor of Luanda for technical services and infrastructure, was also appointed to the position of Secretary of State for Technical Assurance of the Ministry of the Interior and Francisco Monteiro Ribas da Silva, until now provincial delegate of the Ministry of the Interior, as General Commander of the National Police.