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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:
Reuters: Angola election body rejects challenges to vote
September 12, 2012: Angola’s election watchdog on Wednesday rejected opposition complaints that a vote won last month by [...]
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:
BBC: Angola: Promises temper election victory
September 5, 2012: Angola’s long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of [...]
Al Jazeera: Polls close for Angola parliamentary election
Second election since end of 27-year civil war likely to keep Eduardo dos Santos in power despite strong opposition.
The Guardian: Angola’s José Eduardo dos Santos: Africa’s least-known autocrat
Dos Santos, expected to remain president after Friday’s [...]
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:
CNBC: Rich-poor divide scars Angola as it heads for polls
August 27, 2012: A four-lane avenue separates the shelled ruins of the art deco Ruacana Cinema [...]
Images of the demonstration organized by UNITA, August 25, 2012, in Luanda, against electoral fraud:
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By Edú Wañgo:
The province of Bié has been experiencing an escalation in violence during the election campaign.
On August 21, headman Arão Massanga Simão was beaten and struck on the head with a machete for allowing a UNITA flag to be raised in the village of Muyumba, which lies within his jurisdiction.
Located in [...]
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I would like to share with you a perspective on the legislative elections that took place in Angola, on September 5 and 6, 2008. These elections are of profound historical significance for both the country and for Africa. For the country because they mean, first and foremost, the strengthening of peace and stability and, second, [...]
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