Africa Monitor Intelligence

Angola: Police Violence Embarrasses Lourenço

The deployment of elements from the National Police and FAA to monitor compliance with the State of Emergency, since the end of MAR., and later sanitary fences, has already led to c. 2,000 arrests and an undetermined number of deaths. Two recent cases have caused particular concern at the level of the Ministry of the Interior and the PR, motivating the intervention of the minister, Eugénio Laborinho. READ MORE