Is Anti-Corruption Drive Real or Cosmetic? [analysis]

VOA

Angola's president, Joao Lourenco, quickly earned an impressive nickname after he swept into office in 2017 and launched an anti-corruption drive after 38 years of cronyism under… Read more »

Calls for International Investigation of Isabel Dos Santos's Wealth

Deutsche Welle

Angolans are calling for an international investigation into the world-wide dealings that allowed Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of the former president, to become the richest… Read more »

How Africa's Richest Woman Used Family Ties, Shell Companies, Inside Deals to Build Empire

Premium Times

She spun a story the world wanted to believe: a self-made billionaire who had risen in a male-dominated business world in an African country ravaged by civil war and poverty. Read more »

When Successors Rebel Against Their Mentors - Mauritania, Angola, Botswana

The Patriot

Mauritania's former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has become the latest leader on the African continent to fall out with his 'anointed' successor, over control of the ruling… Read more »

Killer Landmines a Sad Legacy of Past Conflicts

CAJ News

The recent death of five people after a landmine explosion in northeastern Angola is a tragic reminder of the unenviable legacy of one of the longest conflicts in the continent. Read more »

The Enablers - Western Advisers Helped an Autocrat's Daughter Amass and Shield a Fortune

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Pausing at the entrance to a star-studded bash at the Cannes Film Festival, '90s icon Sharon Stone flashed her one-of-a-kind cuff bracelet. It was a wraparound hippo with rubies… Read more »

Africa's Richest Woman Faces Tough Times As Angola Government Targets Assets

East African

Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of veteran Angolan politician and former President Eduardo dos Santos, routinely markets herself as an accomplished engineer, entrepreneur and… Read more »

Who's the Daddy Now? [analysis]

Maka

Spare a thought for the sons and daughters of crooked Presidents. Growing up as pampered princes and princesses, educated at the finest private schools at home or abroad, groomed… Read more »

UCKG Might Shut Down Activities in Angola

ANGOP

The director of the national institute for religious affairs (INAR), Francisco Castro Maria, admitted last Tuesday in Luanda the possibility that the authorities might close down… Read more »

Football/Girabola2019-20 - Standings of Top Division Championship

ANGOP

Check bellow the standings of the top division senior males National Football Championship (Girabola 2019/2020), after the dispute last weekend of the sixteenth round, which opens… Read more »

Head of State Appoints New Minister for Economy and Planning

ANGOP

President João Lourenço appointed last Tuesday Sérgio de Sousa Santos as minister of Economy and Planning in replacement of Manuel Neto da Costa. Read more »

Court Orders Asset Freeze of Former President's Daughter Over Graft Claims

allAfrica

All assets of Isabel dos Santos, her husband Sindika Dokolo and Mário Filipe Moreira Leite da Silva, CEO of the Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA), have been frozen following an… Read more »

Floods Leave Trail of Fatal Destruction in Angola

CAJ News

More than 40 people have been killed after the worst floods to hit Angola in over a decade. Read more »

Angola At World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

ANGOP

An Angolan delegation, led by the minister of Finance, Vera Daves de Sousa, is to arrive this Monday, in Zurich, to participate in the 50th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting,… Read more »

Court Orders Seizure of Isabel Dos Santos' Assets

ANGOP

The Luanda court has ordered a temporary apprehension of all the assets of the entrepreneur Isabel dos Santos, also the assets of her husband, Sindika Dokolo, and those of… Read more »