SECTOR 2 They believe that there are no strong institutional mechanisms to provide for interference in the editorial policy of Jornal de Angola and other public sector media organisations. Political interference in the editorial policy of Jornal de Angola is unacceptable, they said. Journalists working for the newspaper cannot act independently because they need to hold on to their jobs in order to be able to provide for their families. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 1.0 2.5 Adequate competition legislation/regulation seeks to prevent media concentration and monopolies. Indeed, section 25 of the Press Law is explicit on this issue. It clearly says: “Concentration of companies or media organisations in one single entity in order to build a monopoly, posing a threat to objectivity and pluralism as well as to healthy competition is prohibited”. And in order to make sure there remains no room for ambiguity, paragraph 1 of section 26 of the Press law determines: “shares of media companies constituted as ‘public limited companies’ must all be registered”. Paragraph 2 of this very section says that “a list of the different shareholders of media companies as well as an indication of the publications they own or any other entities they maintain group ties with, must be submitted to the National Media Council so as to respect the freedom of competition”. Section 27 of the Press Law compels all media companies to publish “by the end of the first quarter of each year the financial statements relating to the previous year in a national publication”. AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER ANGOLA 2010 95