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Angola: Youth Demonstration Against Alcoholism Violently Repressed

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Angola, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Protest, Youth

According to Facebook reports, today's youth demonstration against alcoholism, prostitution and domestic violence (April 28), was violently repressed, informed [1] [pt] the blog Angola Resistente. On April 23, an opinion article [2] [pt] from Makuta Nkondo stated that in a year of elections, the ruling party since 1975, MPLA [3], organizes “food and drinks marathons” in order to please and distract the voters.