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Angolans headed to the polls on September 5 for their first election in sixteen years. The country is in the midst of a remarkable oil boom,...
Interviewee: Jamie Ekern, Assistant Director, Center for Preventive Action
Interviewer: Stephanie Hanson
September 9, 2008
Angola held its first election in sixteen years on September 5. The country is flush with oil money, but most of its citizens remain impoverished. Jamie Ekern, assistant director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, traveled to the Angolan capital of Luanda to observe the elections. During the polls, she was in the Kazenga neighborhood, an area with high crime and poverty levels. Speaking from Luanda, Ekern said that people there turned out in large numbers to vote but voting materials were not available at many stations. When materials still hadn't arrived by late afternoon, the election commission decided to extend voting into Saturday, September 6.
Ekern also noted:
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