Angola: International electoral observer missions for the 2008 election

Updated April 2009

Observer mission manual

The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung's Namibia Office has published a manual, in Portuguese, for observers of the 2008 Angolan National Assembly elections. It can be downloaded at [www] http://www.kas.de/proj/home/pub/8/2/dokument_id-14260/index.html [opens new window] (accessed 22 Jan 2010).

Observer missions

• African Union
• Community of Portuguese Language Countries "Declaração Preliminar da M.O. às eleições em Angola", 7 Sep 2008, [www] http://www.cplp.org/Default.aspx?ID=41&q=Declara%C3%A7%C3%A3o+Preliminar+da+M.O.+%C3%A0s+elei%C3%A7%C3%B5es+em+Angola [opens new window] (accessed 22 Jan 2010)
• Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) "Communiqués de presse", 3 April 2008, [www] http://www.ceeac-eccas.org/index.php?rubrique=documentation&cat=1&id=201 [opens new window] (accessed 22 Jan 2010).
• EISA sent a technical team; Press Release
• European Union (EU); deployed 40 long-term Observers on 9 August 2008:
  Official site: [www] http://eueom-ao.org/ [opens new window] (accessed 22 Jan 2010).
  "Final Report", 2008, [www] http://eueom-ao.org/EN/PDF/FR_EUEOM_ANGOLA_08_EN.pdf [PDF Document, opens new window] (accessed 22 Jan 2010).
• Pan African Parliament Report, 10 Sep 2008, [www] http://www.pan-africanparliament.org/Controls/Documents.aspx?DID=1037 [PDF document, opens new window] (accessed 22 Jan 2010)
• Southern African Development Community (SADC)
• SADC Electoral Commissioners' Forum (SADC-ECF), Observation Statement [PDF document], 8 Sep 2008
• United States Embassy, "Declaration by the Electoral Observation Team", 9 Sep 2008, [www] http://angola.usembassy.gov/declaration_by_the_united_states_embassy_electoral_observation_team.html [opens new window] (accessed 22 Jan 2010)