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    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Dance
      Kizomba culture is a life-enhancing expression of Angola’s diaspora

      The Kizomba Design Museum festival in São Paulo celebrated the dance, music and more created in Portugal’s former colonies

      Two women dance together in a street; behind them other couples are dancing
    • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
      Angola president to be re-elected with reduced majority

      João Lourenço close to extending term but opposition will make allegations of vote-rigging

      The media await the results of the Angola election in Luanda on Thursday evening
    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      News in-depth
      ‘People openly mock them’: Angola’s elite face electoral backlash

      Support for opposition party has risen among young people disaffected with João Lourenço’s MPLA

      Unita supporters at a rally in Caxito, Bengo province
    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Angola’s former strongman José Eduardo dos Santos dies

      Ex-president controlled one of Africa’s biggest oil-producing nations with an iron hand for 38 years

      José Eduardo dos Santos
    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Mining
      Angola seizes stake in diamond miner

      Move marks waning of Chinese influence in southern African nation

      The Catoca open-cast diamond mine in Angola
    • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
      Bribery and corruption
      US places visa restrictions on Isabel dos Santos for alleged corruption

      Africa’s richest woman among those targeted in measures unveiled by Biden administration

    • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
      Angola is nearing end of its long recession, finance minister forecasts

      Vera Daves de Sousa says oil-dependent economy will rebound from double hit of low oil prices and pandemic

    • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
      Andres Schipani27 min
      Angolan president sets out plan to overcome ‘economic storm’

      João Lourenço talks about corruption, economic and democratic reforms at FT Africa Summit

    • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
      The Big Read
      African politics: Lourenço pledges to end Angola’s economic ‘storm’

      The oil-dependent economy is struggling despite a package of reforms from the president and a promise to fight corruption

    • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
      Trafigura
      Trafigura paid $390m in share deal with Angola’s ‘General Dino’

      Price highlights costs of unwinding one of commodity group’s most controversial relationships

      Trafigura logo
    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
      LexEmerging market investing
      Frontier bonds/inflation: investments on the edge of reason Premium content

      Assets’ modish qualities as inflation hedges come at a price — linkage to the commodity cycle

      A floating production storage and offloading vessel operated off the coast of Angola by Total
    • Monday, 29 March, 2021
      Isabel dos Santos
      Africa’s richest woman says she was targeted in ‘personal vendetta’

      Isabel dos Santos cites secret recordings in court filing as she says Angolan president targeted her

    • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
      Angola sharpens fight to recover stolen cash as debt pressure mounts

      Corruption probes launched while president battles popular discontent at Africa’s biggest borrowing crisis

      President João Lourenço estimates the scale of the looting from Angola to be at least $24bn
    • Sunday, 30 August, 2020
      News in-depthEmerging markets
      China strikes debt deals with poor nations under G20 scheme

      Half of requests to defer payments have been agreed — but key Angolan test awaits

    • Sunday, 9 February, 2020
      Mining
      Angola’s state diamond group seeks global partners to become a top 3 producer

      Endiama chief wants ‘radical change’ in overhaul of country’s scandal-hit gem industry

      LUANDA, ANGOLA - JANUARY 30: A shanty town is seen next to Endiama E.P. (Empresa Nacional de Diamantes E.P.), the national diamond company of Angola, on January 30, 2020 in Luanda, Angola.Businesswoman Isabel dos Santos is the daughter of the former President of Angola - Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Forbes Magazine put her fortune at $2.1billion making her the richest woman in Africa. How she made her fortune has come under scrutiny as international media using information from the Luanda Leaks have revealed how, during his presidency, her father sanctioned her acquisition of stakes in Angolan industries including banking, diamonds, oil and telecoms. In December 2019 the Angolan Courts froze Dos Santos's stakes in Angolan companies as it bought a case against her regarding funds owed to the state oil firm. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)
    • Monday, 27 January, 2020
      Isabel dos Santos
      Football hacker claims responsibility for Isabel dos Santos leaks

      Whistleblower awaiting trial for targeting top clubs also provided files on Africa’s richest woman

      (FILES) In this file photo taken on March 5, 2019 Football Leaks whistleblower Rui Pinto (C) is escorted by judicial officers as he arrives at the Metropolitan Court in Budapest, Hungary, for his trial. - The Portuguese Rui Pinto, "hacker" behind the scandal of "Football Leaks", is also the source of "Luanda Leaks" on the alleged fraudulent origin of Angolan Isabel dos Santos' fortune, his lawyers revealed on January 27, 2020. (Photo by FERENC ISZA / AFP) (Photo by FERENC ISZA/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Thursday, 23 January, 2020
      Bribery and corruption
      Portuguese banker named in Isabel dos Santos probe found dead

      Suspected suicide comes as Angolan billionaire indicted for money laundering

      MAIA, PORTUGAL - 5 FEBRUARY, 2018:Isabel dos Santos.Economy Minister Manuel Caldeira Cabral presides over the inauguration of Efacec's new electric mobility industrial unit. The session, was attended by the majority shareholder of Efacec, Isabel dos Santos.This industrial unit, located in Maia, will allow to increase the annual production capacity of fast loaders for electric vehicles, a segment in which Efacec is a world leader.
    • Thursday, 23 January, 2020
      Trafigura
      Trafigura aims to buy Puma Energy stake from retired Angolan general

      Commodity trader hopes deal will help attract more lenders to fuel supplier

      FILE PHOTO: The Trafigura logo is pictured at the company entrance in Geneva, Switzerland March 11, 2012. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
    • Monday, 20 January, 2020
      Bribery and corruption
      Global firms under scrutiny in Isabel dos Santos alleged corruption leak

      McKinsey, BCG and PwC named in records showing allegations of looting by Angolan billionaire

      FILE PHOTO: Isabel Dos Santos, daughter of Angola’s former President and Africa's richest woman, sits for a portrait during a Reuters interview in London, Britain, January 9, 2020. Picture taken on January 9. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
    • Sunday, 5 January, 2020
      Isabel dos Santos to launch legal fight against Angola asset freeze

      Daughter of former president accuses Lourenço government of political ‘witch-hunt’

      Isabel dos Santos
    • Tuesday, 31 December, 2019
      Angola freezes Isabel dos Santos’s assets over graft allegations

      Court order signals further fall from grace of former president’s daughter 

      Isabel dos Santos owns a 25% stake in Unitel, which controls most of Angola’s mobile phone market, among other shareholdings
    • Monday, 2 December, 2019
      Markets InsightTommy Stubbington
      ‘Tourists’ help fuel risky emerging market bond sales

      Low yields in developed world prompt investors to search further afield

      Over the past five years, frontier market hard-currency debt has tripled to more than $200bn
    • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
      African economy
      Angola raises $3bn from yield-starved bond investors

      IMF warns of ‘borrowing binge’ among already indebted economies

      A view of the Kaombo Norte, a Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO), a project operated by Total, the French multinational oil company, on November 8, 2018, about 250km off the coast of Angola in the Atlantic Ocean. - A column of flame emanates from the bow of the boat, illuminating the jet-black ocean for miles around. For three months now the Kaombo Norte has been anchored off the northern coast of Angola and has recently begun to pump up crude oil secreted in the depths below. The arrival of the platform ship which belongs to French oil giant Total has been a timely lifeline for the Angolan government. (Photo by Rodger BOSCH / AFP)RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images
    • Friday, 18 October, 2019
      Catholic Church
      Vatican spent over a year examining Angolan oil investment

      Custodian of donations to Church was approached by businessman with links to senior cardinal

      VATICAN-POPE-ST PETER4S BASILICA...This picture shows the dome of St Peter's basilica at the Vatican on March 9, 2013. The Vatican on Saturday installed a special chimney on the Sistine Chapel from which white smoke will signal the election of a new pope as cardinals prepare for the historic vote next week after Benedict XVI's resignation.  AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE        (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Tuesday, 9 July, 2019
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Africa: can João Lourenço cure Angola of its crony capitalism?

      The president’s pledge to wash away corruption in the oil-rich state is facing scrutiny

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