Angola in Tyrmoil Southern Africa 

​​​Angola: Authorities must tolerate critical views amid pre-election protests

Authorities in Angola must uphold people’s rights to exercise their freedom of peaceful assembly and expression, A human rights group demanded ahead of a planned protest against the imprisonment of seven activists. “In recent years, Angolan authorities have frequently used the police to supress public protests. Demonstrators are often arrested, imprisoned and even ‘disappeared’ for expressing themselves,” said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s… Read More