
OPEN LETTER ANGOLA PRESIDENT To Your Excellency Mr. Joao Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço President of the Republic of Angola and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola…

PUBLIC NOTE House Burglary and Threats to The Secretary- General of The Union of Teachers of Higher Education Luanda, 11 de Abril de 2023 The Association for Justice, Peace and Democracy (AJPD) and Friends of Angola (FOA) learned that on April 10th, 2023, Professor Eduardo Peres Alberto, Secretary General of the Union of…

Clarification about the recent massacre in the village of Lunge, municipality of Bailundo, Huambo province Friends of Angola 2300 18th St NW # 21602 Washington, DC 20009 …

To: U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken And U.S. Ambassador to Angola, Tulinabo Mushingi CC: Senator Ben Cardin Senator Robert Menendez Senator Chris Van Hollen Senator James Risch Representative Yvette Clarke Senator Timothy Kaine Representative Mark Green Senator Marco Rubio Representative Albio Sires Representative Michael McCaul RE: Immediate release of all political prisoners in…

Por Shilda Cardoso | Senior Researcher at Friends of Angola Agosto 22, 2022 É com muita preocupação e urgência que a Friends of Angola apela às Instituições de Segurança e Defesa em Angola a posicionarem-se patrioticamente perante as eleições no dia 24 de Agosto de 2022. É do nosso conhecimento que em Angola, a estabilidade…

Imagem: Internet By Shilda Cardoso The MPLA politics is as perplexing as one can imagine. Often, we define the ruling party as consisting of unanimous and affirmative leadership due to the excessive powers granted to its leaders and the subsequent support of the remaining members. Historically, the MPLA regime modeled itself as an elite Marxist-Leninist…

Greetings! I am the Executive Director at Friends of Angola, an advocacy-based organization focused on human rights, transparency, and good governance in Angola. I am writing to bring your attention to support the U.S. Senate resolution calling on the Government of Angola to hold free, fair, and peaceful elections on August 24, 2022. The resolution…

By Shilda Cardoso | Friends of Angola August 4, 2022 The United States Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Chairman of the SFRC Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, have recently introduced a Senate resolution calling for free, fair, and peaceful…

By Shilda Cardoso|Friends of Angola On the eve of the electoral campaigns for the August 24th elections, the limited attention to the topic of power transition from the interested parties in Angola is quite concerning. Given the country’s long history of civil conflict, numerous unfulfilled treaties, and highly contested elections by opposition parties, the lack…