New banknotes for Angola in January

According to this article Angola will issue its first two banknotes of the new series in January 2013. This will be the 5000 and 10.000 kwanza notes. Angola currently has 2,000, 1,000, 100, 50, 10, and 5 kwanza banknotes in circulation. Governor José Massano of the National Bank said that authorisation for the new banknotes had been granted in June. Massano also noted that the decision to put more banknotes into circulation was due to the governments wish to popularise the use of the kwanza, which is used alongside the US dollar for transactions in Angola.