Full Coverage: Angola

18.02.2008 Bangladesh success story, Angolan failure - a new "Wealth and Survival Index" names and shames countries by weighing child mortality against national wealth.

11.10.2007 Prominent Angolan journalist Graca Campos, the owner and director of the countryÂ’s leading independent newspaper Semanario Angolense, has been sentenced to eight months in jail. He was charged with defamation and crimen injuria and fined the equivalent of US$25 000

20.09.2007 A double amputee bomb victim who heads an Angolan disability organisation was thrown off a Portuguese airlines flight to London, it was disclosed this week.

13.09.2007 Police brutality has been a consistent problem in Angola since members of the military were recruited into law enforcement ranks during the 27-year-long civil war, says a human rights group urging an end to the impunity.

31.08.2007 Angola remains one of the most mine-affected countries in the world, but a major clearance project has made it possible for the first time in decades to travel safely on 250 kilometres of primary roads running deep into the interior.
From: Mines Advisory Group

21.05.2007 In the economic boom since the end of Angola's civil war in 2002, the Angolan government has forcibly evicted thousands of poor residents of the capital Luanda, usually with violence and almost always without compensation, says a new report.
From: Human Rights Watch

10.04.2007 Communities in Madagascar, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia are struggling to recover from a season of unusually heavy rains, cyclones, severe flooding, and extreme drought.

01.03.2007 British anti-corruption campaigner Dr Sarah Wykes - charged with espionage in Angola - has now arrived in Luanda, after being allowed to leave Cabinda.
From Global Witness

12.07.2006 Efforts to assist more than 700,000 Angolans – mostly young children and returning refugees – will come to a halt unless new donations are received by the end of July, the World Food Programme warns.

16.06.2006 Five African countries will take part in this yearÂ’s World Cup, including Angola where CAFOD are kick-starting a new fundraising initiative.

06.04.2006 Four years after the end of the Angolan civil war, the bloody plight of the countryÂ’s elephants is worsening with a doubling in the illegal ivory trade over the last 12 to 18 months, according to two environmental groups.

29.03.2006 An Israeli company is using the latest water-saving technology to grow fruit and vegetables in Angola, which imports much of its food after 27 years of civil war.

15.03.2006 Police and security forces tore down the homes of more than 300 poor families in the Angolan capital in an operation in which a four-year-old girl was shot and several residents were beaten, according to eyewitnesses.

08.11.2005 The co-ordinator of Angola's National Commission for Information Technologies, Pedro Teta, in Luanda highlighted the importance of the implementation of the Government's Steering Plan, saying its will help reduce the digital gap between the country and developed nations.

27.09.2005 European banks are setting a huge new oil-backed loan for Angola, one of the most corrupt and impoverished countries in the world, reports Global Witness.

08.09.2005 Fifteen year-old Branca from Angola misses school two days a week to help her mother on market days. She is now six years behind the normal educational cycle, and may have to drop out altogether if her familyÂ’s fragile livelihood is suddenly hindered. WomenÂ’s Edge says, supporting mothers like BrancaÂ’s will ensure their daughtersÂ’ quest for education and a better life.

31.08.2005 International legal rights groups have called on Angola to reform its press and defamation laws and comply with a recent UN Human Rights Committee ruling that found the government violated an international human rights treaty when it jailed a journalist for criticising the president.

03.06.2005

06.05.2005 A civic rights group from Angola's oil-rich Cabinda province says oil has been a "curse" for the region and has called on American giant ChevronTexaco and others to recognise the dire humanitarian conditions of the people who live there. "Oil is a veritable curse for the population of Cabinda - a source of problems and not solutions," said Raul Danda, who heads the Mpalabanda rights group, the most influential in the northern enclave.

12.04.2005 Health experts fighting the killer Marburg virus in northern Angola have said they are facing denial from families who are refusing to send their sick to hospitals or are taking them out of the city, worsening the risk of contamination.