Angola

In 2008, Manuel Vicente, the chair of the board and director-general of the Angolan state oil company Sonangol, restructured the company and its main subsidiaries for his personal benefit.

Civil society organisations in Angola gave a lesson of citizenship last Saturday, courageously marching to say “Don’t Push Down My House”.

In a letter to Omunga, the provincial governor of Benguela did not authorize the demonstration because “the province of Benguela has not registered demolitions, forced land evictions and other acts that collide against the law”.

Dear colleagues,

8 March marked the start of ‘Operation Combat and Demolition of Shacks and Anarchic Constructions in the Municipality of Lubango’, in the capital of the South Western province of Huíla in Angola.

The municipality of Lubango has 3 Communes namely: Arimba, Kilemba, and Hoque.Lubango is the most populous Municipality of Huila province (about 20% of the population).The highest density in city of Lubango. Lubango has a surface area of 3140 km2 and a population estimated at 1,414,115.

Angolan national television has confirmed that some 3,800 families were driven from their homes which were then demolished. It is alleged that the eviction orders came from the Angolan government.