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Looting and vandalism have occurred in Angola as demonstrators are angered by the government's decision to increase fuel ...
Angola has been gradually cutting fuel subsidies since 2023, when protests over a petrol price hike also turned deadly. At least four people were killed and hundreds were arrested during a protest ...
Police in Angola say four people have been killed and more than 500 arrested in two days of protests sparked by a rise in fuel prices.
Most of the slum dwellers arrived in Luanda during Angola's 27-year civil war that ended in 2002. Others took advantage of recently rebuilt roads and bridges to escape poverty in rural areas in ...
The sprawling city, home to 6.5 million people, has become an open-air dumping site. Luanda has for years been a chaotic urban mess. It figures among the world’s most expensive cities and the ...
Angolan citizen reporters associated with the human rights organization OMUNGA posted an interview today with an activist on the ground in the Cazenga neighborhood of Luanda where police reportedly ...
Ana Paulino, a 40-year-old street vendor in Luanda, balances plastic cans of water four times as heavy as a bowling ball on top of her head every morning and night for quarter-mile trips to the ...
LUANDA, Angola — For decades, residents of the waterfront slum here in Angola's capital have gazed at the hilltop presidential compound and the colonial fort overlooking the harbor. Now the ...