June 13
Angola: Angola's Garbage Tax, Imported Folly
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May 18
Angola: Words That Imprison - Caholo and the Crime of Public Incitement
Activist Osvaldo Caholo, detained for nearly ten months since his arrest on 19 July 2025, was sentenced on 27 April 2026 to two years and six months in prison for the crime of… Read more »
April 18
Angola: Isaac Dos Anjos Is Undermining Angola's Credibility
Angola's minister of agriculture, Isaac dos Anjos, deserves a peculiar kind of congratulations. By speaking so bluntly, he has done the country a public service: he has stripped… Read more »
April 06
Angola: Angola Needs a New Constitution - Now
Angola's constitutional order is not merely dysfunctional but economically distortionary. Since taking office in 2017, President João Lourenço has authorized an… Read more »
March 11
Angola: Angola - an Election That Doesn't Decide
In Angola, where corruption and the capture of state institutions by political and economic elites remain persistent concerns, the independence of the justice system is a matter of… Read more »
March 06
Angola: Constitutional Breach - Secretary of State Remains Director-General of IGCA
On 3 March 2026, four months after assuming office as Secretary of State, Conceição Cristóvão convened IGCA employees to a meeting scheduled for 6 March… Read more »
March 05
Angola: How Angola's Land Registry Undermines Property Rights
A technical opinion confirmed the ownership of a 9.86-hectare plot in Talatona, Luanda. Angola's Cadastral Institute concealed that finding for eight months while communicating a… Read more »
February 26
Angola: Angola's U$61.5 Billion Contracts By Presidential Decree. No Public Tender
In Angola, major public spending decisions are often not announced in televised addresses or debated on the floor of Parliament. They appear instead in the Diário da… Read more »
February 23
Angola: When Economic Power Becomes Systemic Risk in Angola
Angola's diversification strategy was designed to reduce dependence on oil and build a competitive, broad-based economy. Instead, a growing body of public records suggests that… Read more »
February 16
Angola: In Angola, Security Laws Turn 11 Seconds Into Six Months of Jail
Five days before Angola's violent crackdown on striking taxi drivers last year, the Criminal Investigation Service detained 50-year-old Venâncio Filipe Ngondo Lucungo under… Read more »
January 28
Angola: Judges Breaking the Law to Jail Critics of President Lourenço
The case of social activist Osvaldo Caholo is not an isolated judicial failure. When examined alongside the detention of Serrote José de Oliveira, widely known as "General… Read more »
January 26
Angola: Manufacturing Enemies - Inside Angola's Security State
Detained on 28 July 2025 after being shot by police on the first day of Angola's taxi drivers' strike, Serrote José de Oliveira -- widely known as "General Nila" -- has been… Read more »
January 22
Angola: Cybersecurity - Angola's Latest Tool of Authoritarian Consolidation
Angola has yet to experience a real democratic movement at all. What exists instead is a formal democratic Constitution that permits to entrench an increasingly authoritarian… Read more »
January 20
Angola: Angola's 'Fake News' Law Risks Criminalising the Internet
Angola's proposed law against "false information on the internet" is a deeply flawed piece of legislation. It is presented as a response to disinformation, yet it reads more like a… Read more »
December 29, 2025
Angola: Angola - When the Party Enters the Bank
Angola's continued placement under enhanced monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force(FATF) has once again exposed deep structural weaknesses in the country's banking system.… Read more »
January 15
Angola: How Angola Turned a Fashion Designer Into a 'Terrorist'
This report summarizes the case of Aisha Lopes and co-accused, originally published by Maka Angola in 2017. It demonstrates how the Angolan state fabricated terrorism allegations… Read more »
Angola: Angola - When the State Needs Terrorists, It Creates Them
The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) has formally confirmed in writing that the alleged "terrorist conspiracy" connected to the Luanda taxi strike of 28-30 July… Read more »
January 05
Angola: Amor Carlos Tomé - From Journalist to "Terrorist" (Part I)
A public broadcaster journalist is charged with terrorism for texts describing a taxi strike that urged citizens to stay home. The case raises urgent questions about press freedom… Read more »
December 17, 2025
Angola: The Country of Lourenço
Over the past years, Angola has come to be governed less as a republic and more as a personalized system of power. What once functioned as a party-state has gradually evolved into… Read more »
December 29, 2025
Angola: When the Party Enters the Bank
Angola’s continued placement under enhanced monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has once again exposed deep structural weaknesses in the country’s… Read more »
