Angola Jails One Teen, Kills Another

On the first day of Angola’s taxi drivers’ strike, two teenage cousins left home in different parts of Luanda on ordinary errands. One would not return alive. The other has spent more than six months in prison without charge.

José Ngola was 14 years old. Benvindo Ernesto João Zanga was 17. Their stories reveal not an isolated tragedy, but the routine mechanics of repression in Angola — a system in which lethal police force, prolonged pre-trial detention, and political cover converge, while…