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Although Luanda has dawned calmer, there was disadvantage in various suburbs of the Angolan capital on this second day of taxi strike, known as Candongas. The new newspaper, edited in the Angolan capital, refers to the existence of tensions and disagreements also in Huambo, the second largest city in the country.
However, in statements to the Angolan press, a National Police spokesman confirmed the death of four people, but there may be more deaths in the last 24 hours. Angolan police also say that about 500 people have been detained, but there should be more detainees soon, because there are disagreements in the streets of the Luanda region, which include the stoning of motorists, assaults and piles to supermarkets and bus attacks.
On social networks like Tiktok, many Angolans shared videos with moments loaded with violence, which include road vehicle roadkill during an escape from protesters. But also of armed men who shoot without being possible to identify the target. The clashes, which began on Monday, coincide with an Anata strike announced, the new alliance of the Angola Taxi drivers, which was then clearly clearly followed by conversations with the government of Luanda province.
Still, drivers of the blue and white taxis decided not to work Monday and Tuesday, which left thousands of Angolans without shape to reach work and submerging the capital in chaos. Taxi drivers protest against the increase in fuel prices, highly subsidized in Angola, which, however, is one of the main oil exporters on the planet. The increase in fuel prices implies the increase in the price of transport, something unmatched for a population that lives with very low wages in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
