Angola: In Angola, Security Laws Turn 11 Seconds Into Six Months of Jail

Five days before Angola's violent crackdown on striking taxi drivers last year, the Criminal Investigation Service detained 50-year-old Venâncio Filipe Ngondo Lucungo under… Read more »

Angola: How Angola Is Using the Law to Manage Hunger and Dissent

Authoritarianism rarely arrives with tanks in the streets. More often, it slips in through legal texts, regulatory agencies, and administrative procedures that appear technical,… Read more »

Angola: Angola Jails One Teen, Kills Another

On the first day of Angola's taxi drivers' strike, two teenage cousins left home in different parts of Luanda on ordinary errands. One would not return alive. The other has spent… Read more »

Angola: Judges Breaking the Law to Jail Critics of President Lourenço

The case of social activist Osvaldo Caholo is not an isolated judicial failure. When examined alongside the detention of Serrote José de Oliveira, widely known as "General… Read more »

Angola: Shot By Police, Jailed Without a Crime

On 14 October 2025, the Office of the Presiding Judge of the Luanda District Court denied a habeas corpus application submitted by defense counsel Hermenegildo Teotónio for… Read more »

Angola: Manufacturing Enemies - Inside Angola's Security State

Detained on 28 July 2025 after being shot by police on the first day of Angola's taxi drivers' strike, Serrote José de Oliveira -- widely known as "General Nila" -- has been… Read more »

Angola: Cybersecurity - Angola's Latest Tool of Authoritarian Consolidation

Angola has yet to experience a real democratic movement at all. What exists instead is a formal democratic Constitution that permits to entrench an increasingly authoritarian… Read more »

Angola: War On Civil Society, Continuity of Plunder

The proposed Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that the ruling MPLA is preparing to approve on January 22, 2025, is an act of political desperation. It is designed to… Read more »

Angola: Angola's 'Fake News' Law Risks Criminalising the Internet

Angola's proposed law against "false information on the internet" is a deeply flawed piece of legislation. It is presented as a response to disinformation, yet it reads more like a… Read more »

Angola: A Spy Network That Exists Only On Paper

This text examines the espionage charges within Case File 3846/25-CE, the same case in which Judge António Negrão uncritically validated the terrorism theory already… Read more »

Angola: How Angola Turned a Fashion Designer Into a 'Terrorist'

This report summarizes the case of Aisha Lopes and co-accused, originally published by Maka Angola in 2017. It demonstrates how the Angolan state fabricated terrorism allegations… Read more »

Angola: Angola - When the State Needs Terrorists, It Creates Them

The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) has formally confirmed in writing that the alleged "terrorist conspiracy" connected to the Luanda taxi strike of 28-30 July… Read more »

Angola: No Money in 2026 - Angola Enters a Dangerous Fiscal Year

Angola debates many topics, but often avoids the most fundamental: how the State will finance itself in the immediate future. A close reading of the 2026 General State Budget… Read more »

Angola: From Anger to 'Rebellion' - How Angola Is Stretching the Law

Social activist Osvaldo Caholo has been imprisoned for almost six months for comments he made during a live social media broadcast at an anti-government protest in Luanda on 12… Read more »

Angola: Angola's War on Words: Turning Journalism into Espionage

Angola’s case against journalist Amor Carlos Tomé treats opinion as conspiracy, press clippings as espionage, and critical writing as terrorism — exposing the… Read more »

Angola: Angola's War On Words - Turning Journalism Into Espionage

Angolan sports journalist Amor Carlos Tomé has been in custody since August, facing nine serious charges: espionage, terrorism, belonging to a terrorist organization,… Read more »

Angola: Amor Carlos Tomé - From Journalist to "Terrorist" (Part I)

A public broadcaster journalist is charged with terrorism for texts describing a taxi strike that urged citizens to stay home. The case raises urgent questions about press freedom… Read more »

Angola: Amor Carlos Tomé - From Journalist to 'Terrorist' (Part I)

A public broadcaster journalist is charged with terrorism for texts describing a taxi strike that urged citizens to stay home. The case raises urgent questions about press freedom… Read more »

Angola: When Politics Becomes a Crime in Angola

Angola’s prosecutors allege a Russian-backed plot to overthrow the government. What the indictment offers instead is a case study in how dissent can be rebranded as… Read more »

Angola: When the Party Enters the Bank

Angola’s continued placement under enhanced monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has once again exposed deep structural weaknesses in the country’s… Read more »

Angola: Angola - When the Party Enters the Bank

Angola's continued placement under enhanced monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force(FATF) has once again exposed deep structural weaknesses in the country's banking system.… Read more »

Angola: The Country of Lourenço

Over the past years, Angola has come to be governed less as a republic and more as a personalized system of power. What once functioned as a party-state has gradually evolved into… Read more »

Angola: Angola Land Scandal Exposes Deep Institutional Capture

Public land returned to the State in 2020 was quietly diverted inside Angola’s own institutions between 2021 and 2024. The IGCA falsified registries, erased beneficiaries,… Read more »

Angola: Debunking the Myths of the Lobito Corridor

If hypocrisy needed a railway, it would look exactly like the Lobito Corridor. It is being hailed as a symbol of African progress. In truth, it is a mirror of everything negative… Read more »