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By Alexandre Neto:
Seven helicopters and an apparatus of more than 500 men, including military personnel, police and security forces, took part in a military-styled operation that forcibly evicted over 5,000 people from the residential neighbourhood of Mayombe, in the Cacuaco municipality, in Luanda, on February 1.
According to local residents, the joint military [...]
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The latest press coverage on corruption, human rights abuses, violations of freedom of the press and socio-economic exclusion in Angola:
Iafrica: Chiefs want diamond probe
January 10, 2013: Four Angolan traditional leaders on Wednesday petitioned a court to re-open investigations into the “blood diamonds” case of seven former army generals they [...]
The delegation of chiefs from Lunda-Norte and Lunda-Sul provinces (from left to right): Mwambumba, Zovo, Mwanitete and MwaCapenda Camulemba.
Luanda, January 9, 2013: A delegation of four traditional leaders representing the northeastern provinces of Lunda-Norte and Lunda-Sul delivered today a petition to the Attorney-General of the Republic, general João [...]
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In a repressive state with the veneer of democratically elected institutions, such as Angola, the ways in which abuse is rationalized can sound like a parody.
Journalist Coque Mukuta, 28, experienced such a parody on January 4, 2013, while interviewing women street vendors about how they had been arbitrarily beaten by the police while selling [...]
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The latest press coverage on corruption, human rights abuses, violations of freedom of the press and socio-economic exclusion in Angola, every Wednesday on Maka Angola:
Global Voices: Angola’s Sophisticated Censorship
November 28, 2012: Angola celebrated the 37th anniversary of its independence on November 11, 2012. But, in reality, how independent [...]
