REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA
Embassy in
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
22 Dorset Street - London W1U 6QY

GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON TERRORIST ATTACK
Luanda, 8 January 2010

The Government of the Republic of Angola hereby states that today, 8 January 2010, at 14.25, the bus in which the Togolese national football team was travelling from Pointe Noire (Republic of Congo) to Cabinda to take part in the 2010 African Cup of Nations tournament came under a terrorist attack by FLEC on the road between Bicongolo and Chicuca, in Cabinda Province, close to the border with the Republic of Congo, in which nine people, eight Togolese and one Angolan, were wounded.

According to information from the Angolan Armed Forces in the 2nd military region, the FLEC group that carried out the terrorist attack came from the Republic of Congo and returned there after the attack.   

The Angolan Government strongly condemns this infamous act, regrets that there were victims and reaffirms its total commitment to guaranteeing security for the holding of the 2010 African Cup of Nations, which is a great sports event and a demonstration of the friendship and solidarity between African peoples.