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Clara Onofre

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By being a member o f the GV team, i am hoping to show the reality of this country, with the good and the bad things…

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1 June 2010

Angola: A Foreign Look by Afonso Loureiro

Written by Clara Onofre · Sub-Saharan Africa

Living in Angola, Portuguese citizen Afonso Loureiro has been threatened because of his blog. In this interview, he talks about that episode, the country that hosts him and about self censorship and freedom of expression.

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21 December 2009

Angola: Interview with Feliciano Cangüe from the Hukalilile blog

Written by Clara Onofre · Sub-Saharan Africa

Professor and engineer Feliciano Cangüe is the author of the blog Hukalilile (Don't cry for me, Angola), and the first of several Angolan bloggers who feature in a series of interviews to be published on Global Voices.

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9 November 2009

Angola: The high cost of living in Luanda

Written by Clara Onofre · Sub-Saharan Africa

The high cost of living in the country is paradoxical: Angola's high development indicators are not reflected in the finances of the majority of Angola's citizens and do not translate to quality of life for those less economically well off.

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13 August 2009

Angola: The assassination of a ruling party MP

Written by Clara Onofre · Sub-Saharan Africa

The Angolan blogosphere reacts to a double murder: a Member of Parliament and her brother, a Migration and Foreigners Services officer, were gunned down at the end of July. Was it a premeditated murder or an attempted robbery?

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1 August 2009

Angola: National flag carrier removed from EU blacklist

Written by Clara Onofre · Sub-Saharan Africa

After two years, the first TAAG flight from Luanda to Lisbon is scheduled for today, 1 August 2009 with a Boeing 777-200ER. The blogosphere discusses the EU lifting national flag carrier's ban.

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26 June 2009

Angola: New highway code in action

Written by Clara Onofre · Sub-Saharan Africa

Discussions around the changes brought by the new Angolan highway code have been taking place on the blogosphere and divided society. On one hand, the new code is seen as good because it will educate careless drivers, but some argue that the legislation contains costs that not everyone is able to meet.

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