Angola: Government Censors News on Massive Fainting Wave

Journalist Orlando Castro, on the blog Alto Hama, criticizes [pt] the decision of the Government of Angola  to arrest a journalist who reported on a massive fainting wave. Some claim that what has led more than 500 people to faint across the country since April was an unidentified toxic gas. The Government describes it as “mass hysteria”.

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  • […] fainting in Angola: toxic gas or do the ladies just have the vapors? A commission set up by the Angolan government to probe mass fainting in schools in the country has […]

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