Friends of Angola

Por Shilda Cardoso | Senior Researcher at Friends of Angola Agosto 22, 2022 É com muita preocupação e urgência que a Friends of Angola apela às Instituições de Segurança e Defesa em Angola a posicionarem-se patrioticamente perante as eleições no dia 24 de Agosto de 2022. É do nosso conhecimento que em Angola, a estabilidade…

Image:africanevents.com JOINT OPEN LETTER His Excellency President John Pombe Magufuli United Republic of Tanzania Dar es Salaam Tanzania May 20, 2020 Your Excellency, Re: Immediate and urgent measures to protect the rights of prison detainees in Tanzania We the undersigned non-governmental human rights organizations, welcome your government’s measures to halt the spread of COVID-19, including…

Friends of Angola once again condemns the continuing repression of young people who were detained in an attempt to rally in Kalandula, Malanje province. The repression was carried out again by the National Police, an institution whose duty is to protect the demonstrators. Friends of Angola (FoA) remains concerned about the wave of repression against…

By Friends of Angola PRESS RELEASE: Referring to the October 15, 2019 incident involving the police and citizens taking part in a peaceful demonstration, it is with grave concern that Friends of Angola (FoA) denounces the brutality with which the National Police acted. Organizers reported that the peaceful demonstration was convened to challenge the high…

By Amnesty International A judge at the Cabinda Court ordered the provisional release of 40 more protesters on 19 April. Ten other protesters remain arbitrarily detained without charge, arrested for their involvement in peaceful protests. One female is detained at Yabi prison and nine males are detained at Cabinda civil prison. Several of the protesters…

By Africa Review Four political parties that contested the August 23 election in Angola have united to challenge the outcome. The parties said in a statement that the provisional results announced by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) were illegal and unconstitutional. The Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), the Board of Convergence for…