(Reuters) - Angolan police arrested 18 activists staging a rare anti-government rally in the capital Luanda on Saturday, demonstration organisers said.
The protest was the first against President Jose Eduardo dos Santos - in power for 33 years - since an election last August where his MPLA party 72 percent of the vote to secure a new five-year term.
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