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Angolan police detain 13 people for planning protests


    LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolan police arrested more than a dozen people on Saturday for allegedly planning to organise protests threatening "order and public security", a statement by Angola's Ministry of the Interior said on Sunday.

    "Several steps in this city of Luanda...culminated in the arrest in flagrant criminal action of 13 nationals who were preparing to carry out acts to change the order and public security in the country," the government said in a statement seen by Reuters.

    The arrests come on the heels of a recent state visit by President Eduardo dos Santos to China, which the government denied was aimed at negotiating a two-year moratorium on debt repayments.

    (Reporting by Herculano Coroado; Writing Mfuneko Toyana; Editing by Hugh Lawson)