Just days after Angolan police launched a violent crackdown against anti-government protesters (right), a former prime minister “today launched a barbed attack against his former government colleagues, denouncing President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s government as authoritarian and corrupt,” AFP …
Portuguese authorities have rejected a criminal complaint against a campaigning journalist who had accused several senior Angolan military officers of complicity in human rights atrocities, including killings and torture, VOA reports.
The generals were involved with diamond mining …
Can countries like Iraq, Angola, Nigeria and Ghana overcome the resource curse?
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Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of …
Angolan opposition leaders and civil society groups are contesting the results of last Friday’s elections which, they contend, were far from free and fair.
The head of the African Union’s election observation mission, Cape Verde’s former President Pedro Pires, cited …
As Angolans prepare to go to the polls this week, “the risk of violent revolt is increasing,” says a prominent campaigning journalist, given the likelihood of a fraudulent election.
President José Eduardo dos Santos (right), who has ruled Angola for …
Angola’s main opposition party today called for the August 31 election to be postponed to allow time to improve transparency and address electoral law violations. Pro-democracy groups plan to hold mass rallies tomorrow to reinforce the call for free and …
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Angola’s president today announced national parliamentary elections for August 31, but a vicious attack on pro-democracy activists (left) by pro-government thugs suggests that the poll is unlikely to be free or fair.
“In 2010, Angola’s parliament changed the constitution so …