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1.	Angolan civil war over but journos still fight for civil rights
	Author: Bram Posthumus	Date Written: 7 September 2012
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Radio Netherlands International
	Secondary Category: Media	Source URL: http://www.rnw.nl/africa
	Key Words: Angola, media. resistance, Tonet, Marques, harrassment
	Summary & Comment: 10 years after the end of the 26 year Angolan civil war, the realities of work for Angolan ’jornalista’s are worse if anything. They are harassed by police, by court cases, by jail time. Some give up, others go into self-censureship mode. 2 who remain committed to expose the repression and the corruption of the regime are William Tonet (Folha 8) an . . . [expand]
2.	Angola: Four more MPLA years
	Author: Africa Confidential	Date Written: 7 September 2012
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Africa Confidential
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL: http://www.africa-confidential.com
	Key Words: Angola, elections, MPLA, UNITA, fraud,
	Summary & Comment: "MPLA spent more than US$75 million on its campaign receiving 72% of the votes...The opposition, which took around a quarter of the votes on 31 August, is convinced fraud is the real reason for the ruling party’s success...they claim the MPLA stuffed ballot boxes and wielded undue influence with the CNE, National Electoral Commission, AC Vol 5 . . . [expand]
3.	Angola: “Free and fair” elections could be contested
	Author: Louise Redvers	Date Written: 4 September 2012
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Inter Press Service
	Secondary Category: AU/NEPAD	Source URL: http://www.ips.org
	Key Words: Angola, elections, Dos Santos, Samakuva, election authority.
	Summary & Comment: The results show MPLA 72%, UNITA 19%. The AU and SADC observer teams gave it the OK. But opposition parties claim errors and abuse in the registering of voters (many could not find names on roll) or the recording and transmission of the results.) They may make legal objections (they have 48 hours). JK
4.	Angola: Dos Santos election victory likely to bring more protests and repression
	Author: Jon Schubert	Date Written: 28 August 2012
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: African Arguments
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://africanarguments.org
	Key Words: Angola, election , protests, repression, MPLA
	Summary & Comment: "Ahead of the 31 August legislative elections — the third the country has ever known — the situation in Angola is increasingly tense. Opposition parties denounce the work of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) as biased and warn of electoral fraud, while the ruling MPLA, using increasingly bellicose rhetoric, has threatened to match every . . . [expand]
5.	Strike at Angolan National Radio
	Author: Rafael Marques de Morais	Date Written: 22 August 2012
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Maka Angola
	Secondary Category: Media	Source URL: http://makaangola.org
	Key Words: Angola, National Radio, strike, salaries
	Summary & Comment: Staff at Radio National Angola will go on strike Aug 24 to demand wages be raised (submitted June 26th). They claim their wages are the same as cleaners at the National newspaper. This caused reporter Luís Tara to commit suicide a year ago to draw attention to his treatment by the management. JK
6.	Police clamp down on UNITA supporters
	Author: Maka Angola	Date Written: 10 August 2012
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Maka Angola
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://makaangola.org/
	Key Words: Angola, MPLA, UNITA, campaigns, violence,
	Summary & Comment: Electioneering heats up as the polling day of August 31st draws near. Speeches compete, but there are also shows of strength. MPLA have a big advantage because they have the police on their side - to harass the opposition, or to allow MPLA to do that. In the videothere is historic footage of previous campaigns, including a speech by Savimbi of UNI . . . [expand]
7.	General Paihama: the Regime’s Firebrand
	Author: Nelson Sul D’Angola	Date Written: 5 August 2012
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Maka Angola
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http:// http://makaangola.org
	Key Words: Angola, Benguela, Paihama, violence, election
	Summary & Comment: In Benguela, rhetoric and violence heat up; some UNITA militants were injured and some imprisoned. Some parallels were drawn with Syria, but not clearly. References were made to the civil war which ended 10 years ago. The point is made that the president will not be up for election by the people, but by the new assembly - after 33 years in office. . . . [expand]

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