ANGOLA’S communications minister, Hendrik Vaal Neto, says newspapers and radio stations will be closed down if they do not take a more patriotic stance reporting the country’s civil war. Neto says recent news reports insulted the government and discouraged young men from heeding a military conscription campaign. Meanwhile, both the Angolan armed forces and the Unita rebel movement have been laying new landmines in Angola since hostilities resumed late last year following the breakdown of the 1994 UN-brokered Lusaka Protocol peace accords. A Norwegian NGO which manages the country’s main landmine database says reports of the extent of recently planted landmines could be exaggerated, but also says the government forwarded the organisation a report detailing the recent landmine campaign.