| December 2009: |
São Tomé e Príncipe:
Antonio Cascais visits the Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Africa
From the late 1400s Portugal began settling convicts on Sao Tome and establishing sugar plantations with the help of slaves from the mainland. The island was also important in the transshipment of slaves. In the XIX century coffee and cocoa crops were introduced.
Sao Tome and Principe is trying to shake off its dependence on the cocoa crop. Falls in production and prices left the island state heavily reliant on foreign aid. The government has been encouraging economic diversification and is set to exploit the billions of barrels of oil which are thought to lie off the country's coast.
more information on this topic coming soon
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| October and November 2009: |
Mozambique elections: Antonio Cascais travels to Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Sofala, Zambésia and Maputo provinces:
Antonio Cascais covers presidential elections as well as national and regional parliamentary elections in Mozambique
Frelimo party, in power since it led the country to independence from Portugal in 1975, oficially wins 191 parliamentary seats out of 250 - enough to change the constitution at will. The main opposition parties claim election fraud.
more information on this topic
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| September 2009: |
Nampula, Mozambik: Antonio Cascais is working on several reports about the people's access to micro credits.
more information on this topic coming soon
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| August 2009: |
Luanda, Angola: António Cascais organizes a course on cultural journalism for 14 Journalists from five lusophone african countries.
The program includes meetings with outstanding angolan poets, artists and musicians, as well as visits of museums and galleries. Thanks to DW-Akademie and Goethe-Institut, Luanda...
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| July 2009: |
António Cascais is preparing several trips to Angola and Mozambik
more news coming soon...
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| June 2009: |
António Cascais reports on Angola, at the DASP congress (german society for the african portuguese speaking countries), Universität zu Köln, Cologne University, Germany
Read the script: PDF german language
António gives a lecture on Angola at the "Portuguese Club International", Cologne, Germany
Read the script: PDF portuguese language
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| May 2009: |
Antonio is visiting Mozambik (Moçambique) Nampula
Province & Maputo
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| 2009 March |
Antonio's Tour to the Kissama National Park (70 Km southwest of Luanda)
 1) Angola: Antonio is capturing pictures & sounds in the middle of nowhere
2) In Angola or on the moon?: a country with a huge diversity of landscapes
3) On the river Kwanza: The Kissama Nationalpark invited us on the boat
4) Soldiers in former times: the rangers of the kissama national park
5) Angolan "Imbondeiro" tree: a national symbol
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Antonios Trip to Sumbe and Gabela (kwanza Sul Province)
 1) Kwanza Sul landscape: twilight atmosphere south of the Kwanza river
2) Seven Years after the war between MPLA and UNITA: On the way to Sumbe, the capital of Kwanza Sul province there are still inumerous landmines of russian, cuban and romenian origin, colocated by the MPLA governamental troops
3) Between the cities of Sumbe and Gabela: Little villages with nice inhabitants who live from the fish of the Keve river
4) Paradise now: The spectacular waterfalls of Cachoeira
5) little girl with toy in Cachoeira
6) Young ladies welcoming the visitors of Cachoeira
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Antonios Trip to Sumbe and Gabela (kwanza Sul Province)
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On the streets of Luanda
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The day before the pope came...
Fotos made by Antonio Cascais during a party at "Combatentes" square, near the center of Luanda, organized by the catholic church to welcome the pope in Angola (2009, March, 20th - 23th)
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The view from my 20th floor hotel room...
Every mornig - during my stay in Luanda - i wake up with this view of the baía de Luanda and the portrait of (the not yet directly elected) President José Eduardo dos Santos, in power since 30 years...
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500 Years of christian missionaries in Africa march, 20th - 23th:
the pope visits Angola
A background report by Antonio Cascais (German language) PDF
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"No, he can't": the pope arrived in Luanda and showed, that he is not a good communicator
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The Day the pope met young people in a Luanda Stadium
Some of them didn't survive (2 dead girls, at least 20 gravely wounded)
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The pope in Africa
A Film produced by BR-tv (bavarian public television, Munich, Germany) in cooperation with Antonio Cascais (german language)
Watch the full-length feature at www.br-online.de here:The pope in Africa
or watch the shortend version in the window below:
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until the video starts playing!!!
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| 2009 March |
Antonio Cascais is covering the official visit of the portuguese President, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, in Germany
Radio reports (portuguese language / fotographs)
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Antonio Cascais meets several angolan leaders, including the president, in Berlin, while - at the same time, he is preparing his next trip to Angola
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| December 2008: |
Antonio is breathing the exceptional air of Quito, one of the highest capital cities of the world (2850 m). By the way he is researching on the media system of this latin american country.
Please listen to this radio feature in portuguese language:
Ecuador - is the freedom of press in danger?
Ecuador – está em risco a liberdade de imprensa?
(audio (mp3) - portuguese language) PDF portuguese Language
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| 2008 September |
Coverage of the parliamentary elections in angola
Antonio Cascais is covering Elections (September, 5th) in Angola: It is the first national vote for 16 years in Angola, which is booming because of soaring oil revenues and recovery from civil war. Angola wants the vote to set an example on the continent after flawed polls in Kenya and Zimbabwe.
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Full coverage at www.antoniocascais.net/angola.htm
Video:
Report on the angolan elections for ARD-TV with cooperation of António Cascais.
Please click on the image above to play the video.
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| 2008 June |
The Documentary "Koran im Kopf II" ("Qur’an in my head - part II") is ready.
In this new documentary Barino, a young german who converted to islam, tells Antonio Cascais that "there are moderate Muslims, but - at the other hand - Islam itself is not moderate". Also, because of the Islamic mandates that apostates, blasphemers, and heretics must be killed - mandates which are also rooted in the Qur'an and the teachings of Muhammad - these reformers are often threatened and sometimes actually killed by Muslims who believe they have strayed from the Noble Path...
broadcasting date:
2008, August, 27th broadcasting time: first emission: 10.30 pm - 11.15 pm, wdr tv
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Further Information at : http://www.wdr.de or PDF German language
If you missed watching the movie on TV - you can watch it on youtube.com.
First Part | Second Part | Third Part | Fourth Part | Fivth Part
 Please click on the image above to watch the interview.
Barino is invited to the RTL TV show "sternTV". Watch Barino in German SternTV talking about his personal experience within Islam
| 2008 April |
The Documentary "Verzweifelt gesucht: Mari und Maddie" is broadcasted on WDR-TV on thursday, april, 17th, 22:00 (10:00 pm) and on friday, April, 18th, 10:35 am.
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Please click on the image above to watch the trailer.
Further Information at : http://www.wdr.de or PDF German language
| 2008 January - April |
António Cascais is working on two documentaries for german tv WDR.
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