Angola to scrap fuel subsidy by end-2025, says finance minister

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Angola will push ahead with removing all fuel subsidies by the end of 2025, which should enable state oil company Sonangol to pay taxes and dividends again, the country's finance minister Vera Daves de Sousa said.

A security guard looks on as people wearing face masks walk past the headquarters of the Angolan state oil company, Sonangol in the capital Luanda August 21, 2022.REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File PhotoConsidering dual listing for state oil companyLUANDA, Nov 9 -

"We are taking out the fuel subsidies... End of 2025, we expect to see this process stabilise and closed as much as possible," she said in a virtual interview from the capital Luanda, ahead of the Reuters NEXT conference in New York on Thursday.Sonangol imports refined petroleum products to the southern African OPEC member which it sells locally at a lower price with the government meant to reimburse the difference.

The plans are part of President Joao Lourenco's reform efforts to modernise the economy and attract private investment. Daves de Sousa told Reuters NEXT that other privatisation processes were ongoing. Insurer ENSA will be listed locally in 2024, Daves de Sousa said, without elaborating. Its chairman said in 2021 a majority stake would be sold that year.

 

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