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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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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
Vol. 36:2 – Summer 2012
By: Rafael Marques de Morais
In March 2011, at the height of the North African street protests, an anonymous letter went viral. It called for a mass demonstration in Luanda’s Independence Square, in the capital of Angola, on March 7, [...]
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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:
Prensa Latina: More than 3,000 Deads in Angola by Traffic Accidents
19 de Novembro: Angolan authorities expressed here today concern at the occurrence of 14,226 [...]
The Member of the European Parliament, Ana Gomes, will host a discussion on Angola at the European Parliament in Brussels, on November 14, 2012. Angolan anti-corruption campaigner and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais will address Angola after the Elections: Oil and the Prospect for Democracy.
The ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of [...]
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The 15 Angolan oil workers who went on strike aboard the oil vessel FPSO Gimboa, on October 3, to demand better working conditions, were questioned yesterday and today by the public prosecution in the oil-rich coastal town of Soyo, in the north of Angola. The workers are under arrest and are yet to be charged.
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The trial of 15 soldiers of the Angola’s Presidential Guard will resume in the Luanda Regional Military Tribunal on Friday, September 28. The members of the Central Protection and Security Unit (DCPS) in the Military Bureau of the Angolan Presidency are accused of the crime of making “demands in a group”, for claiming fair wages [...]
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