Angola deports civil society leaders
By Mark | August 12, 2011
Civil Society Statement on the Detention and Deportation of Civil Society Leaders and Delegates to the 7th Southern Africa Civil Society Forum, Luanda, Angola Read the rest of this entry »
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Human Rights Watch statement on SADC
By Campaigns | August 10, 2011
Human Rights Watch, August 9
Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) should address the worrying human rights situations in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and Angola, Human Rights Watch said in a letter today to Dr. Tomaz Salomão, the executive secretary. Human Rights Watch also urged SADC leaders, at their meeting in Luanda,Angola from August 16 to 18, 2011, to promote and strengthen the human rights mandate of the regional tribunal, rather than weaken it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Angolan journalist arrested for reporting on ‘mass fainting’
By Campaigns | August 8, 2011
The Guardian, 8 August
Angolan police arrested radio journalist Adão Tiago for reporting on a bizarre nationwide wave of mass fainting. Read the rest of this entry »
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Angola: observations from a development worker
By Campaigns | July 25, 2011
Angola Monitor, July 2011
Peace is good but not yet good enough
Following many years of travel to Angola from 1999 on, a recent return trip after five years’ absence showed how much has changed – and how much hasn’t. I spent two weeks working with rural communities in three provinces to discuss the effects of climate change on their environment and livelihoods. In the process I was exposed to what post-war development in Angola means for ordinary Angolans. Read the rest of this entry »
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Angola accused of border terror
By Campaigns | July 22, 2011
Mail and Guardian, 22 July
Angolan security forces are waging a campaign of terror — including sexual abuse — on Congolese migrants who cross the border illegally looking for work, aid agencies have claimed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Angola Is Prepared to Start Oil-Sharing Talks With the DRC
By Campaigns | July 5, 2011
Bloomberg, 5 July
Angola is ready to hold talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about sharing oil resources along their common maritime border, Oil Minister Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Southern Africa: Heavy rain puts relief agencies on alert
By Mark | January 24, 2011
IRIN, 21 January 2011
Heavy rains and localized flooding across southern Africa from Angola to Madagascar are raising fears that the devastating floods of 2000 will be repeated. Then, thousands of people were plucked from rooftops by helicopter, several hundred died, and Mozambique’s agricultural production was severely impacted. Read the rest of this entry »
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Angola’s Dos Santos meets Zuma in historic state visit
By Info | December 14, 2010
Mail & Guardian online, 14 Dec 2010
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Tuesday started an historic first state visit to South Africa, a trip aimed at ending decades-long enmities between two of the region’s major economies.
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Angola: UK government to cease funding landmine clearance
By Info | November 18, 2010
The Guardian, Wednesday 17 November 2010
De-mining priority
That DfID is to continue funding landmine clearance in Iraq and step up its operations is good news. What Andrew Mitchell didn’t say is that DfID has stopped funding mine action in Angola although it is still seriously affected by landmines from its civil war that ended in 2002.
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Journalist with critical radio station gunned down in his home
By Info | September 13, 2010
Reporters Without Borders, 9 September 2010
Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the death of Alberto Chakusanga, the host of a programme on a radio station critical of the government. The first journalist to be murdered in Angola since 2001, he was found dead in the kitchen of his home in the Luanda district of Viana at dawn on 5 September. Read the rest of this entry »
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