$QJROD year that the Angolan government continued blocking the expansion of the transmission signal of Angola’s catholic broadcaster, which continues to broadcast only to Luanda and surroundings. By way of an ultimatum, this desire was manifested in Luanda by the Archbishop of Lubango, D. Gabriel Bilingue, who currently chairs the destinies of the Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé (CEAST). Speaking at the opening of the 2nd General Assembly of CEAST, D. Bilingual said “I do not know, but I very much hope that this is the last year that our Rádio Ecclésia continues to back-pedal here in Luanda without it being possible to be heard throughout the whole of the national territory. I consider this a continuing violation of the rights of citizenship of our countrymen.” It was not the first time that in this struggle the Catholic hierarchy applies pressure directly on the government, but this time the more forceful tone of the demand by the President of CEAST was more noticeable. Being always very difficult to confirm by independent sources, credible official information in Angola in 2012 continued to obey a political control that typically advises government officials not to open too much the doors to the offices where any statistics is produced, especially when it may be less “sympathetic” to the image of the Government. 7KH8UEDQ6LWXDWLRQ,Q/XDQGD Luanda reflects well the inability of government to find the most appropri- 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\" ate solutions to meet the serious challenges posed by urbanisation, resulting from population flows that every day discharge across its boundaries from the interior of the country. There is increasingly less effective capacity to absorb this growing and frightening demographic pressure, regardless of how much more public investment that is made in the capital, how many more plans are drafted, how many more law enforcement agents are recruited, how many more campaigns on civic education or to salvage moral values are conducted. At a frantic pace, Luanda is fast catching up with the most problematic cities in the world. What we will have (and we already have it) is a perfect urban chaos, manifesting particularly in the gigantic traffic jams that every day threaten to paralyse the city and in the growing belts of social misery with all its derivatives and consequences, of which crime is obviously the more threatening and destructive.