Angolans appeal to US
03/03/2004 11:05  - (SA)  

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Luanda - About a thousand supporters of minor Angolan political parties on Tuesday demonstrated outside the US embassy in Luanda, calling for Washington's intervention to stop "dictatorship" in the southern African country.

It was the first opposition protest authorised by the government since 1992 and was organised by two small parties.

A letter addressed to US President George W Bush and handed over to the US ambassador in Luanda, Christopher Bell, by the organisers, asked Washington to stop the Angolan government from "looting state funds" and urged the United States to bring in "transparency" in governance.

One of the main organisers also accused President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of being a "dictator".

Soldiers from the former rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola and government troops in April 2002 ended a civil war which had raged almost without cease since before independence from Portugal in 1975.

Angola has now become Africa's third-largest oil producer, with US firms active in the Cabinda enclave.

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