International News Safety Institute

08 September 2010

Alberto Graves Chakussanga

Incident

Alberto Graves Chakussanga

Cause of death

Shooting

Details

Alberto Graves Chakussanga, a radio journalist with a station critical of the ruling MPLA government, was found lying in a corridor of his home in Luanda's Viana district with a bullet in his back.

He had been the presenter of a weekly, Umbundu-language news call-in program on private Radio Despertar. Chakussanga, 32, was also a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Agostinho Neto state university and at the Angolan police academy. A few hours before his death, Chakussanga had left his pregnant wife at a hospital where she gave birth later that day to a baby boy.

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