Workers want to raise the minimum wage from $38 to $288, but the state has rejected this, proposing $45
Kuduro, an urban dance music style, pays post-apocalyptic tribute to Angola’s capital city
This extract from the book Ten Cities details the evolution of the club scene in Nairobi, with a focus on the mid-1990s
Critiques of corruption must explicitly disrupt corporate globalism, imperialism, racism, authoritarianism, militarism, elitism
and sexism
Jose Filomeno dos Santos planned to siphon off $1.5-billion when he ran Luanda’s sovereign wealth fund, government says.
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled Angola since 1979, will not contest the August 23 election
Angola, Africa’s second-largest oil producer, has become the latest country on the continent to launch a sovereign wealth fund.
In post-election Angola, the ruling party can no longer count on threat to retain the hearts of voters.
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/ 9 September 2011
Twenty-one people have appeared in court in Angola, charged with public order offences, following a rare anti-government demonstration.
Two children have died in a wave of poisonings in Angolan schools, but police have yet to identify the toxin that has sown panic in the country.
War and chaotic infrastructure planning have left the river-rich country with a dire sanitation system.
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/ 22 February 2011
Oil revenues have made Angola one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa, but the high cost of living makes life difficult for many.
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/ 16 January 2011
An intoxicated boy shuffles along a teeming street in Luanda casually gulping vapours from a plastic bottle that contains petrol.
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/ 31 January 2010
Substitute Mohamed Nagui scored a winner five minutes from time to hand Egypt an unprecedented third successive African Nations Cup title.
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/ 25 January 2010
Algeria and Ghana are one step away from the Africa Cup of Nations final after stunning favourites Côte d’Ivoire and hosts Angola respectively on Sunday.
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/ 15 January 2010
Algeria became the first World Cup qualifiers to win at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations on Thursday while hosts Angola also took maximum points.
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/ 11 January 2010
Thousands of fans descended on Angola’s national stadium on Sunday night for what should have been a moment of national pride.
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/ 29 September 2009
Rumours that Angola is not ready to host the 2010 Cup of Nations are ”absolutely rubbish”, a senior African Football Confederation official has said.
On a recent visit to Luanda Niren Tolsi discovers a city battling between dysfunction and renewal
President Jacob Zuma signed on Thursday an oil agreement with his Angolan counterpart during a visit aimed at strengthening economic ties.
Even as Pope Benedict XVI said his heart cannot be at peace while people are homeless, critics said thousands have been evicted from church land.
Pope Benedict XVI urged Angolans on Friday to continue on the path of reconciliation after nearly three decades of civil war.
Flooding in Angola has left at least 20 000 people homeless and the region is now at risk of a cholera outbreak, aid agencies said on Friday.
Floods caused by almost a week of heavy rain killed at least three people and displaced more than 3 800 families in southern and western Angola.
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/ 23 February 2009
Health officials in Angola on Monday warned that more needs to be done to prevent the spread of rabies, which has killed 82 children in Luanda.
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/ 10 January 2009
After years of state domination, private newspapers, radio stations and most recently a television channel are shaking up Angola’s media landscape.
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/ 13 December 2008
Angola’s parliamentary election results in September lacked transparency and were marred by serious organisational weaknesses, according to the EU.
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/ 13 September 2008
Angola opposition Unita on Friday contested at court elections in the capital, Luanda, where chaos resulted in a second day of voting last week.
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/ 10 September 2008
Six years after the end of a devastating civil war, polls in oil-rich Angola have cemented peace, legitimising its democracy.
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/ 8 September 2008
The leader of Angola’s largest opposition party said on Monday people had been forced to vote against their wishes in the parliamentary elections.
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/ 7 September 2008
With nearly 55% of the ballots counted, Angola’s ruling MPLA seemed headed for a massive victory in the first parliamentary elections in 16 years.
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/ 7 September 2008
Angola’s ruling party has claimed victory in the oil-rich nation’s chaotic landmark election despite opposition attempts to have the result cancelled.