| November and December 2012: |
"Finding the 'Portuguese Dream' in Angola"
Antonio speaks with some of the more than 120.000 Portuguese workers in Angola radio report for DRadio Wissen (German Broadcasting Service)
http://wissen.dradio.de/migration-zum-arbeiten-nach-angola.37.de.html?dram:article_id=233854
Click here - audio German language
Headhunters in Lisbon are currently lining up highly skilled Portuguese workers for good paying jobs in Angola, an African country currently experiencing enviable growth. There is no economic crisis in the former Portuguese colony and it offers something that is currently scarce in Portugal: jobs.
Der Spiegel report research by Antonio Cascais for Helene Zuber
Click here English language
Click here Der Spiegel report - German language
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Antonio is covering the elections2012 in Angola
Sept., 7th, 2012
Interview with António Cascais on Angola (DW radio show with Cristina Krippahl & António Rocha)
click here ( portuguese language )
Aug., 31st, 2012
DW radio show on angolan elections with Mark Coldwell (report by António Cascais & interview with Antonio Cascais)
click here (english language )
Aug., 20st, 2012
report by Antonio Cascais on the "angolan spring", the young opposititon movement
click here (German language )
Additional Reports on angolan elections, August, 31st, 2012
In the angolan election (August, 31st) President José Eduardo dos Santos wants to extend his 33-year rule – and to entrench an elite that controls Africas's second-biggest oil industry and is fast expanding its hold over the continent’s natural resources. Such is the ruling MPLA - Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola’s hold on power that few predict anything other than victory for Mr dos Santos, despite a Gallup poll last year which found that only 16 per cent of Angolans approved of dos Santos' rule.
For further information please contact Angonio Cascais.
E-mail: info@antoniocascais.net
Preliminary article on the angolan elections (german language): click here
Artikel: angolan_Jugendbewegung.doc
Hear the audio version (german language): click here
Audio: Angola-Proteste.mp3
Angolan Impressions: The Luanda Independence Square (Praça da Independência), three days before the election
LUANDA, ANGOLA, August, 31st
Article on angolan elections, August, 31st, 2012
( english language) here
( portuguese language) here
Reports on angolan elections by Antonio Cascais (english language)
listen Here
Angolan Impressions:
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| January 2010: |
Cabinda, an exclave and province of Angola (a status that has been disputed by many political organizations which consider the occupation of the territory by Angola illegal).
Antonio’s trip to Cabinda takes place after the attack perpetrated by the independentist group Flec against the Togo football team which participated in the african Football Cup of Nations, CAN - Angola 2010. The attack left three dead, several injured and has led to the withdrawal of the Togo team from the tournement.
Background information article on Cabinda by Antonio Cascais for Deutsche Welle Radio (german language): PDF german language
Latest “Human Rights Watch” report on Cabinda:
PDF english language or read article here
PDF portugues language or read article here
Interview by Antonio Cascais with Human Rigths Watch activist Lisa Rimli for DW-Radio (portuguese Language); (24.02.2010)
Report on the 4 new angolan football stadia, including the Chiazi-Stadium in Cabinda, build by the chinese for the african Cup of Nations 2010
(portuguese language); (26.02.2010)
Cabinda - with a population of nearly 150 000 - is an exclave and province of Angola, a status that has been disputed by many political organizations in the territory. The capital city is also called Cabinda. The province is divided into four municipalities - Belize, Buco Zau, Cabinda and Congo.
Cabinda is separated from the rest of Angola by a narrow strip of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which bounds the province on the south and the east. Cabinda is bounded on the north by the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Adjacent to the coast are some of the largest offshore oil fields in the world. Petroleum exploration began in 1954 by the Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, when the territory was under Portuguese rule. It is estimated that 60 % of angola’s oil reserves are in deep fields off shore from Cabinda. The territory is able to produce ca. 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Cabinda Oil is associated with Sonangol, Agip Angola Lda (41%), Chevron (39.2%), Total (10%) and Eni (9.8%).
In 1885, the Treaty of Simulambuco established in Cabinda a Protectorate of Portugal and a number of Cabindan independence movements consider the occupation of the territory by Angola illegal. While the Angolan Civil War largely ended in 2002, an armed struggle persists in the exclave of Cabinda, where some of the factions have proclaimed an independent Republic of Cabinda.
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| 2009 March |
Antonio's Tour to the Kissama National Park (70 Km southwest of Luanda)
 1) Angola: Antonio is capturing pictures & sounds in the middle of nowhere
2) In Angola or on the moon?: a country with a huge diversity of landscapes
3) On the river Kwanza: The Kissama Nationalpark invited us on the boat
4) Soldiers in former times: the rangers of the kissama national park
5) Angolan "Imbondeiro" tree: a national symbol
Listen to this ca. 10 min. audio feature by António Cascais (portuguese language)
Summary in portuguese language:
Parque Nacional do Quissama em Angola
Em sintonia com o governo angolano, a Cooperação Técnica Alemã com a sigla GTZ, apoia a formação de fiscais para o Parque Nacional do Quissama, recorrendo a antigos militares desmobilizados.
A recuperação do Parque Nacional angolano do Quissama é realizada através de um projecto conjunto entre o Ministério Angolano do Ambiente, o Ministério da Reinserção Social e da Cooperação Técnica Alemã. Segundo Maria Helena Loua, funcionária da Direcção Nacional dos Recursos Naturais, do Ministério Angolano do Meio Ambiente, ainda durará anos para que o parque volte a ser o que era antes da guerra.
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Antonios Trip to Sumbe and Gabela (kwanza Sul Province)
 1) Kwanza Sul landscape: twilight atmosphere south of the Kwanza river
2) Seven Years after the war between MPLA and UNITA: On the way to Sumbe, the capital of Kwanza Sul province there are still inumerous landmines of russian, cuban and romenian origin, colocated by the MPLA governamental troops
3) Between the cities of Sumbe and Gabela: Little villages with nice inhabitants who live from the fish of the Keve river
4) Paradise now: The spectacular waterfalls of Cachoeira
5) little girl with toy in Cachoeira
6) Young ladies welcoming the visitors of Cachoeira
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Antonios Trip to Sumbe and Gabela (kwanza Sul Province)
Listen to this ca. 10 min. audio feature by António Cascais (portuguese language)
Summary in portuguese language:
Minas, um entrave no desenvolvimento de Angola
Dos 70 mil mutilados em Angola, 8 mil são crianças. Sete anos após o fim da guerra, as fontes mais pessimistas dizem que cada dia morrem 10 pessoas vítimas de minas. Um flagelo que mutilou já cerca de 70.000 cidadãos. 10 milhões de minas ainda estão por detonar no país.
Os mutilados necessitam de próteses e de meios para a sua sobrevivência. Em Gabela funciona um projecto co-financiado pela Cooperação Técnica Alemã, GTZ, e que visa ajudar os sobreviventes de acidentes com minas.
Foi em 2005 que a GTZ, inicou a sua cooperação com a direcção provincial da saúde angolana; tudo sempre em parceria com o Instituto de Reintegração dos Ex-Militares em Luanda. Com a ajuda de dinheiro do contribuinte alemão foi equipado o centro ortopédico de Amboim-Gabela, onde se produzem próteses para aqueles que perderam pernas ou braços durante a guerra ou depois da guerra em consequência de acidentes com minas antipessoais.
A Cooperação Técnica Alemã lançou um programa que visa a criação de micro-empresas. O objectivo é que os deficientes possam ter rendimentos para se sustentarem a si próprios e as suas famílias.
Mas o projecto funciona apenas em teoria. Na prática nada é como devia ser...
Uma reportagem de António Cascais de Amboim-Gabela, Angola.
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On the streets of Luanda
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The day before the pope came...
Fotos made by Antonio Cascais during a party at "Combatentes" square, near the center of Luanda, organized by the catholic church to welcome the pope in Angola (2009, March, 20th - 23th)
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The view from my 20th floor hotel room...
Every mornig - during my stay in Luanda - i wake up with this view of the baía de Luanda and the portrait of (the not yet directly elected) President José Eduardo dos Santos, in power since 30 years...
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500 Years of christian missionaries in Africa march, 20th - 23th:
the pope visits Angola
A background report by Antonio Cascais (German language) PDF
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"No, he can't": the pope arrived in Luanda and showed, that he is not a good communicator
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The Day the pope met young people in a Luanda Stadium
Some of them didn't survive (2 dead girls, at least 20 gravely wounded)
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The pope in Africa
A Film produced by BR-tv (bavarian public television, Munich, Germany) in cooperation with Antonio Cascais (german language)Watch the full-length feature at www.br-online.de here:The pope in Africa
or watch the shortend version in the window below:
Users of MS-Internet-Explorer may have to wait a few seconds
until the video starts playing!!!
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| August 2008: |
Antonio Cascais is covering Elections (September, 5th) in Angola: It is the first national vote for 16 years in Angola, which is booming because of soaring oil revenues and recovery from civil war. Angola wants the vote to set an example on the continent after flawed polls in Kenya and Zimbabwe.
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Background Article on the upcoming Elections in Angola by António Cascais for DW-Radio PDF German language
António reports about final election campaigns from Luanda Angola for DW-Radio PDF German language
António reports about parliamentary elections from Luanda Angola for DW-Radio
PDF German language
António reports about the second day of parliamentary elections in Angola for DW-Radio
PDF German language
António reports about voices of Election Observation Mission Members and
skeptical opinions from Angola for DW-Radio.
PDF German language
Video:
Report on the angolan elections for ARD-TV with cooperation of António Cascais.
Please click on the image to play the video.
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| 2007 November - December, 23rd. |
Antonio was working for Radio Despertar in Viana, near Luanda (Angola).
By the way he was speaking with people, learning, trying to understand the past, the present & the potencials in the future, investigating new stories...
Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 1 ( PDF German language ---> Dec. 5th)
Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 2 ( PDF German language Dec. 6th+7th )
Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 3 ( PDF German language Dec. 8th+9th )
Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 4 ( PDF German language Dec. 10th )
Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 5 ( PDF German language Dec. 11th +12th)
Thursday, November 29th.
During an investigation - filming and documenting life in "Iraque"
- a quarter of Luanda, Angola - Antonio and Alexandre Neto Solombe (editor and journalist at Radio Despertar) were violently arrested nov. 28th, at 10.30 am and released after 5 hours.
Read the full story: PDF - german language
The Union of the Journalists in Portugal refers to the violations of freedom of information in Angola...
Read the article at www.jornalistas.online.pt / PDF
Thursday, November30th.
Amnisty International refers to the illegal arrest of the Journalists Antonio Cascais and Alexandre Neto Solombe.
Read the full article at www.amnestyusa.org / PDF
Portuguese version of the amnesty international note on the illegal arrest of the two journalists Antonio Cascais and Alexandre Neto Solombe. PDF
French version at www.amnesty.org / PDF
Wednesday, December 5th.
"Visão" - a portuguese News Magazine writes a story the illegal arrests of Antonio Cascais and Alexandre Neto Solombe... PDF
Contact in Angola:
Until Dec, 23rd. you can reach him by e-mail: info@antoniocascais.net
or on his angolan mobile phone: ++244 92 7312608 |
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