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Angola

October 17, 2019

Drought and commercial cattle farming causing devastating hunger in Angola

Tens of thousands of pastoral farmers who have been driven off their land to make way for commercial cattle ranches are at severe risk of starvation as drought grips southern Angola.
October 13, 2019

Watershed moment as countries step forward to tackle global statelessness

More than 85 governments, civil society and international and regional organisations, have this week pledged hundreds of new commitments to end statelessness, a major cause of human rights deprivations for millions of people worldwide.
October 10, 2019

Thousands of Congolese refugees returning home from Angola

Refugees are returning to the Kasai region where fighting amongst armed groups has lessened and security conditions have improved.
August 26, 2019

Thousands of DR Congo refugees head home from Angola

The refugees appear to be responding to reports of improved security in some of their places of origin, and anxiety to return home in time for the beginning of the academic year.
October 29, 2018

Mass expulsions from Angola have put thousands of Congolese at risk, says UN

There are reports that security forces in Angola used excessive force in their operations to deport the Congolese nationals.
October 17, 2018

Mass Congolese returns from Angola could lead to a humanitarian crisis

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by a fast-developing humanitarian situation in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sparked by mass returns from Angola over the last two weeks.
August 27, 2018

More support needed for DRC refugees in Angola, say Lutherans

Refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo who found refuge in Northern Angola after an outbreak of violence in the Kasai region, are afraid to return home, even as life in the refugee settlements becomes more difficult due to funding challenges, says The Lutheran World Federation in Angola.
February 13, 2013

HIV and AIDS advocate to head major churches' body in Angola

A staff member of the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa has been elected General Secretary of the Council of Christian Churches in Angola.
March 24, 2010

Children killed in Angolan land evictions

The latest in a series of brutal, forced evictions in Angola took place earlier this month when riot police swept through a provincial capital, Lubango, killing four children.
January 20, 2010

Angola warned on rights crackdown after Togo football shootings

The Angolan authorities have been warned against a crackdown on human rights activists after several were detained in the Cabinda region in the wake of the 8 January 2010 attack on the Togolese national football team.