The Latest Breaking News from Angola

Former U.S. Intel Accuse Havana Of Luring Cuban Youth To Fight For Russia

Cuba has acknowledged that there are "human trafficking operations for military recruitment purposes" involving Cubans in Russia.

Zenger · Sep 8, 2023

Former U.S. Intel Accuse Havana Of Luring Cuban Youths To Fight For Russia

Cuba has acknowledged that there are "human trafficking operations for military recruitment purposes" involving Cubans in Russia.

Zenger · Sep 8, 2023

Judge orders Louisiana to remove incarcerated youths from the state's maximum-security adult prison

A federal judge has ruled that incarcerated youths be removed from a temporary lockup at a former death row building in Louisiana’s adult maximum-security prison by Sept. 15

The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2023

His underrated guitar playing influenced everyone from the Beatles to Nirvana – here's how Lead Belly used his 12-string skills to play his way out of prison

Huddie Ledbetter's magnetic musical talent got him an early release from a hellish Texas prison – yet his full impact on 20th century guitar playing is often overlooked

Guitar World · Aug 4, 2023

Amateur videos show Turkish police violence against African migrants

Amateur videos sent to the FRANCE 24 Observers team show police in Turkey stopping and questioning African migrants as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. The videos, sent in by migrants from Senegal, Cameroon, Guinea and Angola, show officers shouting at the migrants and in some cases using physical…

France 24 · Jul 21, 2023

Children held at former Death Row prison in 133F heat with no AC and limited water in Louisiana

The state began moving children as young as 14 to the facility last year

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2023

Louisiana youths held at adult prison's old death row suffer heat, isolation, advocates say

Advocates for juveniles held in a former death row building at a Louisiana prison for adults say the youths are suffering through dangerous heat and psychologically damaging isolation in their prison cells with little or no mental health care, inadequate schooling and foul water

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2023

‘Hardest Geezer’ is trying to run the entire length of Africa

West Sussex’s Russell Cook to become first person to run the length of the continent

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2023

Isolated, no air conditioning: Louisiana youth in solitary cells amid heat, ACLU says

The children allege they are given only few minutes outside their cells, with some even being maced

The Guardian - US · Jul 18, 2023

Native giraffes are once again roaming in Angola

Native giraffes are once again roaming a national park in Angola, decades after they were driven to extinction in the country, most likely by its long-running civil war. Fourteen young giraffes were transported to Iona National Park from a game reserve in Namibia last week. Some Angolan giraffes, which are a subspecies…

The Week · Jul 13, 2023