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    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Mining
      Angola seizes stake in diamond miner

      Move marks waning of Chinese influence in southern African nation

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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’

    • 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 

    • 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

    • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
      African economy
      Angola raises $3bn from yield-starved bond investors

      IMF warns of ‘borrowing binge’ among already indebted economies

    • 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

    • 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

    • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
      David Pilling
      It is wrong to demonise Chinese labour practices in Africa

      A study of companies in Angola and Ethiopia finds that negative stories are mostly untrue

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