Rescuers on Sunday pushed on with efforts to find more survivors from the rubble of the Angolan police headquarters that collapsed in the capital. The disaster is feared to have claimed seven lives. The national police commissioner said he was optimistic that more people would be found alive.
Scores of detainees were injured on Saturday when a six-storey police building collapsed in the Angolan capital Luanda. Angolan police chief Ambrosio de Lemos said the cause of the collapse of the National Criminal Investigation Department building was so far unknown but no ”external factor” was involved.
The giants enter the African club battleground this weekend as second round combat begins in the two major competitions. Both title holders hail from Tunisia and enjoy home advantage with Etoile Sahel playing AS Douanes of Senegal in the African Champions League while CS Sfaxien meet JSM Bejaia of Algeria in the African Confederation Cup.
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/ 11 September 2007
Angolan police still violate human rights ranging from brutal slum clearance to torture, with no investigation or disciplinary action, Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday. The report finds that the abuse of power and failure to bring perpetrators of these violations to justice goes on unhindered.