Activists arrested over Cabinda bus attack

An Angolan human rights lawyer said that police are rounding up peaceful activists for the deadly attack on the Togo national soccer team's bus.

Angolan police arrest priest in Cabinda

Police arrested a priest in Cabinda on Saturday, a lawyer said, adding that authorities were using the Togo attack as an excuse to round up critics.

Step up to the plate on Cabinda

South Africa's wilful myopia regarding Angola is glaringly obvious, argues Niren Tolsi.

Angola's oil province on difficult quest for peace

Angola's rebel province of Cabinda is on a difficult search for a settlement to end decades of separatist fighting in this patch of land that is the lifeline of the country's oil boom. A peace overture from the Angolan government is being received with skepticism -- although not rejected -- in the poor northern province where offshore oil generates billions of dollars to Luanda's coffers.

Sleepy Angolan town wakes up to HIV/Aids

The sleepy town of Cabinda has a forlorn air about it, but few outward signs of the decades-long conflict that has plagued the oil-rich Angolan province. Although Cabinda produces 60% of Angola's oil revenues, the province, saddled with one of the highest HIV rates in the country, has been slow to respond to the epidemic.

Thousands march for peace in Agola

About 15 000 people demonstrated at the weekend in Angola's restive oil-rich Cabinda region to demand a truce between government forces and separatists fighting Luanda for about four decades. Shouting "We want peace", the demonstrators on Sunday took to the streets of the Cabinda capital.

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