Economist Wilson Chimoco predicts, in statements to the Lusa agency, 2025 as a year of "many uncertainties", with expectations of positive economic growth, but reduced capacity to create jobs and little room for inflation to slow down.
The economist estimates that in 2025 the national market will continue to offer business and investment opportunities, despite the structural barriers it still faces.
"We will continue to see a greater attraction of external financing, with emphasis on the transport and energy sectors, but a substantial entry of foreign direct investment into Angola is not expected", he considered.
The university professor hopes that the business environment will continue to improve next year, with particular emphasis on the non-oil sector.
For this expert, "it is unlikely" that there will be a drop in the unemployment rate or inflation, which is still "very dependent on the evolution of the exchange rate and compliance with the program to remove fuel subsidies", which should take place in 2025.
In the social field, Father Jacinto Pio Wacussanga highlighted the "golden jubilee" of national independence in 2025, arguing that the 50th anniversary "should be celebrated with inclusivity".
"Historical inclusivity and also of communities, but I don't want to believe that this will happen," said the priest, highlighting that inclusivity implies a self-critical look, an assessment of "what went right and what went wrong".
For him, the celebrations of 50 years of independence, which are celebrated on November 11, 2025, will "be in the same fashion, of celebrating with champagne", neglecting "social crises, hunger, the basic food basket that does not go down from price, the exponential increase in vulnerability, and the more than 10 million poor people who do not have access to adequate food".
"That's what I predict, that, unfortunately, next year's celebrations will be. I don't think they will be inclusive, because we have very little left, less than a year and we are not going to eliminate poverty for 10 million Angolans, it will be impossible We are not going to reverse the hunger issues that affect all of Angola, especially the south and east," he said.
Jacinto Pio Wacussanga, who works with communities in the south of the country, considered that this social situation could give rise to popular protests, "because it will be exactly the result of the humanitarian crisis" that the country is experiencing and that is not being addressed "with social tools" existing.
"We don't have any community empowerment program, any community credit, which is very serious. The credits go with a cabinet recommendation, to well-known businesspeople, in short, the overwhelming majority of businesspeople, those who have an M [MPLA] card, then, this is not an inclusive country", he stressed.
For the priest, many Angolans "are excluded from sharing the national cake, the peace dividend", which leads to "many being dissatisfied".
According to Jacinto Pio Wacussanga, there is a lack, for example, of a convenient framework for ex-combatants from various sectors, who "are on the streets, are dockers, do precarious work and their children do not enjoy inclusion".
"Unfortunately, the picture is not pretty and here is the warning, the warning to navigation, of what emerged in the Indian Ocean, from Mozambique. We should be on guard so that what happens there does not happen here, adopting comprehensive preventive measures aimed at reviewing the causes of our social crisis. This, unfortunately, is not happening", he stressed.
"I don't think we are on the right path to be able to prevent the evils that are happening in other latitudes," he added.
