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Oil-rich Angola keen to unload state-run firms

Angola is planning to privatise many of its more than 250 state-owned firms, but there are fears that the process could be marked by cronyism and cement the oil-rich nation’s…

Angola rights groups appeal to EU over harassment

Human rights groups accused Angola on Wednesday of intimidating their activists ahead of elections next year and urged the European Union to press the African country to stop the…

Angola wants investors for diamond sector

Angola’s state-run diamond company wants foreign companies as partners to tap what it believes are vast pockets of the precious gems, a company official said on Thursday. Angola,…

Savimbi’s ghost haunts Angolan opposition vote

Members of Angola’s main opposition party streamed into a conference hall on Thursday to cast ballots in a leadership race overshadowed by the ghost of Jonas Savimbi. The two…

Slow registration fuels election fears in Angola

Angola may extend the period for registering voters for its first elections in over a decade, fuelling concerns among some political observers that the ballot in the oil-rich…

Oil boom fuels Dubai dreams in Angola’s capital

Just south of Luanda lies one of Angola’s biggest construction sites, part of a plan to transform the ramshackle capital of one of Africa’s top oil producers into the best city…

Angola polls still in doubt as voters register

Angola has rolled out a massive voter-registration drive ahead of its first elections since 1992, but questions remain over when the long-awaited polls will take place in the…

Giant Sable back from the brink

The giant sable, unique to Angola and believed by many to be extinct after one of Africa’s longest and most bloody civil conflicts, is alive, well and breeding. But news of its…

Kimberley process to be launched in Geneva

Southern African countries will launch a scheme in November to try to end the trade in blood diamonds, funding many of the continent’s conflicts, a senior regional official said…