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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 [...]
By António Capalandanda:
UNITA is accusing the Provincial Electoral Commssion (CPE) in Bié of falsifying the consolidated results lists from polling stations and is contesting provisional electoral results that give the MPLA a victory in the province, with 69.79 percent of votes. According to the provisional results, UNITA has 36.2 percent of the votes [...]
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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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