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"Mr President, Angola has never been a Western-style democracy, being effectively a one-party MPLA-dominated state, but things have improved with the new Constitution of 2010 and there has been relative political stability after the ceasefire with UNITA in 2002.
But more recently, President Santos’ government has become more intolerant of press freedom by arresting human rights defenders and journalists such as Marcos Mavungo. There are serious allegations of torture and a climate of police repression. Corruption is unfortunately endemic in that country with its vast oil and mineral wealth, with the wealth concentrated in the hands of a very small urban political elite.
Angola has many EU – mainly Portuguese – citizens working there and is a signatory to the Cotonou Agreement which commits it to a high standard of fundamental civil and political rights, and it does need now more transparency in its extractive industries. There is an ongoing military campaign in Cabinda, which is seeking self-determination as a territory, but this must not be an excuse for the crackdown now by the authorities which we are currently witnessing in that vast country."@en1
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