Sambizanga, Angola

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This article is about the municipality of Angola. For the film, see Sambizanga (film).

Sambizanga is a municipality of Luanda, Angola. It is home to the Progresso Associação do Sambizanga football club of the Girabola.

[edit] 2007 shooting

In December 2007, film director Radical Ribeiro began shooting a film in Sambizanga. On 18 December, police mistook actors in Ribeiro's film, who were carrying unloaded firearms, as actual criminals and opened fire on them, killing two. Interior Minister Roberto Leal Monteiro said "We won't rest until police at all levels realise they are public servants,"