Notícias

• Cybersecurity - Angola's Latest Tool of Authoritarian Consolidation 22/01/2026
  [Maka] Angola has yet to experience a real democratic movement at all. What exists instead is a formal democratic Constitution that permits to entrench an increasingly authoritarian system of power, sustained by the absence of real political democratic alternation, weakened institutions and a systematically shrinking civic space. This system is usually referred to as an […]
• War On Civil Society, Continuity of Plunder 21/01/2026
  [Maka] The proposed Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that the ruling MPLA is preparing to approve on January 22, 2025, is an act of political desperation. It is designed to conceal the disastrous governance of João Lourenço and to divert attention from Angola's ongoing structural plunder. It is the latest manoeuvre by a party that […]
• Angola's 'Fake News' Law Risks Criminalising the Internet 20/01/2026
  [Maka] Angola's proposed law against "false information on the internet" is a deeply flawed piece of legislation. It is presented as a response to disinformation, yet it reads more like a blueprint for state control of digital speech. In a country where civil liberties are legally established on paper but routinely constrained in practice, this […]
• A Spy Network That Exists Only On Paper 16/01/2026
  [Maka] This text examines the espionage charges within Case File 3846/25-CE, the same case in which Judge António Negrão uncritically validated the terrorism theory already dismissed by the Public Prosecutor. If the claim of terrorism was absurd, the accusation of espionage is nothing short of a parody.