Angola: Carrinho and the Risks Angola's Central Bank Must Confront

Carrinho has controlled Banco de Comércio e Indústria since December 2021. In August 2024, the competition authority cleared its takeover of Banco Keve, subject to… Read more »

Angola: Unitel - Small Investors, Big Losses and the Risk of Capture

By September 24, Unitel shares were trading at 28,000 kwanzas on Angola's stock exchange, down 30 per cent from the July offering price of 40,040 kwanzas. In less than two months,… Read more »

Angola: Angola's Tax Authority Hires Money-Laundering Suspect to Investigate Tax Crime

Angola's Tax Authority (AGT) has awarded Portuguese academic Carla Trindade two consultancy contracts worth a combined 551 million kwanzas to help investigate tax offences. Yet… Read more »

Angola: Angola's Tax Authority Awards Kz3.15bn Contract to Company That Helped Shape Its Own Tender - Part I

When Angola's General Tax Administration (AGT) announced a billion kwanza (US$1.2 million) tender for its communications plan on 15 November 2023, one of the eventual bidders had… Read more »

Angola: Angola's Tax Authority Awards Kz3.15bn Contract to Company That Helped Shape Its Own Tender - Part II

The tender was publicly announced on 15 November 2023. In Pressionante Kianda, however, had only two workers with active registrations at the National Social Security Institute --… Read more »

Angola: Carrinho and the Concentration of Financial Power in Angola

A statement issued by Banco BPI on September 3, 2026, says the bank has agreed to sell its entire 33.35 percent stake in Banco de Fomento Angola, or BFA, to Congolian Financial,… Read more »

Angola: Uíge - the Violence of the Angolan Political Police

Neide dos Santos, 24, was sitting in a bus parked near UNITA's provincial headquarters in Uíge at about 2pm when stones began striking the vehicle. Another activist and the… Read more »

Angola: Angola's 'Fake News' Law Reveals a Fear of the Truth

Angola's Law No. 6/26 took effect on Aug. 4 with a contradiction. It reproduces passages from Brazil's proposed "fake news" bill, PL 2630, which remains pending there. Read more »

Angola: Unitel Cyberattack Exposes Angola's Strategic Vulnerabilities

Angola's largest telecommunications operator has entered a second day of severe disruption following a cyberattack that affected voice calls, mobile data and internet access across… Read more »

Angola: Democracy Never Took Root in the MPLA

In December, João Lourenço will again stand as the sole candidate for the MPLA presidency at its ninth congress. The committee reviewing nominations rejected General… Read more »

Angola: Angola - Where Votes Count

As Angola heads toward its 2027 general election, political debate has become consumed by familiar demands: rewrite the electoral law, replace the National Electoral Commission,… Read more »

Angola: Angola - Unitel Sale in Legal Limbo

The public sale of shares in Unitel, Angola's largest telecommunications company, and the operator's admission to trading on the country's stock exchange mark an important stage in… Read more »

Angola: Angola's Hidden Succession Crisis

The election that may decide Angola's future is not the general election scheduled for 2027. It may be the internal election of the ruling MPLA, at the party congress in December… Read more »

Angola: Tax Bill Risks Turning Every Citizen Into a Suspect

Reading some of Angola's recent legislation can leave one wondering whether the problem lies with the reader, the drafter or a lawmaker legislating for a country that exists only… Read more »

Angola: Angola's Garbage Tax, Imported Folly

A Disguised Tax Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Angola: Between Succession and Collapse - Angola At the End of Lourenço's Rule

Before asking who will succeed João Lourenço, a more uncomfortable question looms: what kind of country will he leave behind at the end of his final term? Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Angola: Press Release - - Carrinho Group's Right of Reply

PUBLIC CLARIFICATION, RESTORATION OF FACTS AND DEMAND FOR CORRECTION IN THE FACE OF UNSUPPORTED ALLEGATIONS Read more »

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 »

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 »