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Angola: Spotlight

The latest press coverage on corruption, human rights abuses, violations of freedom of the press and socio-economic exclusion in Angola:

The Guardian: Tax evasion still crippling Africa as rich countries fail to deliver support

May 10, 2013: In Angola's case, oil revenues have generated $3bn-6bn a year in government revenues, yet the country's under-five mortality rate is the eighth highest in the world - 161 per 1,000 live births. "Angola is one of the world's fastest-growing countries," said Watkins.

"It has vast resources that are potentially transformative: it could build an entire electricity grid or finance a full-scale health and sanitation system; instead the oil revenue is going into a property boom in Luanda." According to International Monetary Fund, billions have gone missing from Sonangol, the state energy company.

The Guardian: Angola's poor people hit hard by urbanisation crackdown in Luanda

May 10, 2013: Forced evictions and illegal housing demolitions have become the norm for people in the overcrowded Angolan capital. The Angolan government says it is waging "a sustained war against chaotic urbanisation", but this appears to have become a war against poor people.

Reuters: Angola sending aid to 300,000 at risk from drought

May 9, 2013: Angola set up an emergency plan on Thursday for the southern province of Cunene, where an estimated 300,000 people are at risk of malnutrition because of a two-year-long drought.

Provincial governor Antonio Didalelwa was cited by state-owned newspaper Jornal de Angola as saying more than 300,000 people, or approximately the entire known population of the province, are at risk of malnutrition. "We are worried about the situation. There is a lack of food and water for people and cattle," he said.

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