My Cabindan fixer, Cristóvão Luemba, a correspondent for the Angolan Catholic Church’s Radio Ecclésia, waited two days to mention that he had actually been on the scene during the attack. To listen to Cristóvão’s recording of the shots is chilling (see below), not least because you can imagine the chaos of the situation. “I was on the floor of the car,” he says. Shots hit the auto he was sharing with three other journalists. “My wife was very worried later,” recalls Cristóvão, who was shaken but unharmed. “She said, ‘You have life, you have kids, this isn’t good.’ But I told her this is my profession. I have to do my job.” — Grant Wahl, reporting from the African Cup of Nations. Read this now.