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Critiques of corruption must explicitly disrupt corporate globalism, imperialism, racism, authoritarianism, militarism, elitism and sexism
Editorial: The Western enablers of global corruption
The Luanda Leaks, publicised late on Sunday evening, have vividly outlined the scale of the business empire of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the former president of Angola, José…
Laundering Isabel dos Santos
“African corruption” is only African as regards its victims. Its perpetrators are institutions and individuals from across the globe who are willing to loot without conscience as…
Isabel dos Santos did not loot Angola alone
Once again, Western auditing and consulting firms shamelessly facilitated corruption on an international scale
Angola’s dos Santos family empire in the firing line
Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on the high profile family of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, accused of plundering revenues from the country’s vast…
Angola: The fall of the Dos Santos clan
One year ago, the Dos Santos family handed the Angolan presidency over to João Lourenço. Now the ex-president’s son has been arrested
Lourenço’s first year: Angola’s transitional politics
João Lourenço’s first year in office has been marked by notable reforms. If ordinary Angolans are to benefit this momentum must continue
Dos Santos’s son charged with fraud
Jose Filomeno dos Santos has been accused of the illegal transfer of $500-million when he was the head of the country’s sovereign wealth fund
Angola’s Lourenco keeps pressure on Dos Santos cronies
Lourenco’s manoeuvering against the nepotistical vestiges of Angola’s last president began in November with the toppling of Isabel dos Santos
Son of Angola’s ex-president sacked from national investment fund
Jose Filomeno dos Santos, who was implicated in the "Panama Papers" offshore scandal, will be replaced by former finance minister Carlos Alberto Lopes
Angolan leader denies tensions with predecessor despite clean-up campaign
In November, within three months of taking control of Angola, Lourenco sacked dos Santos’s daughter — Africa’s richest woman
Angola oil giant probes Isabel dos Santos graft claims
In recent weeks, several Angolan media outfits have accused dos Santos of ordering suspect transfers and payments worth tens of millions of dollars.
Daughter of Angola’s ex-president sacked as state oil chief
Angolan President Joao Lourenco has fired his predecessor’s daughter, Isabel dos Santos, from her influential post as head of the state oil company
Daunting challenges facing Angola’s new president
Crucially though, Dos Santos will retain control over the MPLA itself until 2022 at the earliest, health permitting.