Angolan journalist murdered

Alberto Chakusanga , a presenter on an Angolan radio station critical of the government, was found shot dead in his home in Luanda on 5 September. He is the first journalist to be murdered in Angola since 2001. He was shot in the back and it is suspected that the gun was equipped with a silencer because his sister-in-law, who was in the house at the time, heard nothing. Chakusanga, 31, hosted a programme on Radio Despertar , a station that was founded in 2002 as a result of the peace accords between the ruling MPLA and the opposition UNITA. The station supported UNITA. Source: Reporters Without Borders