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Angolan authorities have unjustly killed more than 12 people since January, in addition to perpetrating other severe human rights violations, according to a recent report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). The human rights organization accused Angola’s police of cracking down on political dissent in the country, resulting in killings and arbitrary arrests. In their Monday [...]

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres Monday stated that education is critical to combating racism and other vices bred by decades of slavery. Guterres’ comments occurred at a UN General Assembly session to observe the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Guterres commented, “We must learn and teach the [...]

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The recent inflating of U.S.-China tensions has popped the illusion that Washington and Beijing might be able to limit their antagonism to economic competition, as the scuttling of a high-level diplomatic summit in Beijing over the shooting of a Chinese spy balloon recalls the postponement of an Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting in 1960 following the downing of [...]

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Angola’s Constitutional Court Thursday filed a final dismissal of The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola’s (UNITA) challenge to the nation’s August 24 presidential election results. As a result, UNITA and other opposition parties called for peaceful demonstrations to protest against what they have described as election “irregularities.”  Speaking for the Constitutional Court, [...]

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The Angola Constitutional Court Monday dismissed an effort by the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), runner-up in the nation’s August 24 election, to declare the final vote count invalid. UNITA claimed the National Electoral Commission’s official vote count did not match their own polling-station records. UNITA leader and former presidential candidate [...]

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Angola’s revised penal code that not only decriminalizes same-sex relationships but also bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, went into effect on Wednesday. The penal code was approved by the Angolan parliament in 2019 but was not signed into law by President João Lourenço until November 2020 and was scheduled to take effect [...]

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Transparency International’s released its annual index Thursday, finding that most countries showed little to no improvement in fighting corruption since last year. Somalia was ranked as the most corrupt country, while Denmark and New Zealand were found to be the least corrupt countries in the world. The index ranks 180 countries and territories according to [...]

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Angola’s parliament approved a new penal code Wednesday that drops provisions widely interpreted to criminalize homosexuality. The new penal code is Angola’s first since it gained its independence from Portugal in 1975. The prior code contained many holdover provisions from the colonial era, including a ban of “vices against nature,” which was understood to criminalize [...]

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday cautioned that Angola’s mass deportation of approximately 330,000 Congolese migrants has seen human rights violations by authorities on both sides of the border. Authorities in Angola have reportedly used unnecessary force in expelling Congolese from the country, including deaths at the hand of authorities and [...]

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