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Make corruption reporting meaningful

Analysis Aharon de Grassi - 14 Feb 2020

Critiques of corruption must explicitly disrupt corporate globalism, imperialism, racism, authoritarianism, militarism, elitism and sexism

Angola: Ex-president’s son planned to steal $1.5-billion

Africa Agency - 15 Apr 2018

Jose Filomeno dos Santos planned to siphon off $1.5-billion when he ran Luanda's sovereign wealth fund, government says.

Angola: The Dos Santos regime’s key moments

Africa Staff Reporter - 21 Aug 2017

President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled Angola since 1979, will not contest the August 23 election

Angolan wealth fund gets president’s son on board

Africa Staff Reporter - 19 Oct 2012

Angola, Africa's second-largest oil producer, has become the latest country on the continent to launch a sovereign wealth fund.

MPLA loses its reliable fear factor in Angola

Africa Staff Reporter - 7 Sep 2012

In post-election Angola, the ruling party can no longer count on threat to retain the hearts of voters.

Angolan police under fire

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Sep 2011

Twenty-one people have appeared in court in Angola, charged with public order offences, following a rare anti-government demonstration.

Panic in Angola as schools hit by mystery toxin

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Jul 2011

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.

Water everywhere in Angola, but few places to drink

Africa Staff Reporter - 14 Mar 2011

War and chaotic infrastructure planning have left the river-rich country with a dire sanitation system.

Angola’s high prices hard to bear

Article Sibongile Khumalo - 22 Feb 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.

Petrol: A child’s drug of choice in Luanda

Article Sibongile Khumalo - 16 Jan 2011

An intoxicated boy shuffles along a teeming street in Luanda casually gulping vapours from a plastic bottle that contains petrol.

Egypt secure third successive Nations Cup title

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Jan 2010

Substitute Mohamed Nagui scored a winner five minutes from time to hand Egypt an unprecedented third successive African Nations Cup title.

Algeria knock out Côte d’Ivore

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Jan 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.

Algeria first World Cup team to win in Angola

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Jan 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.

West is warned: Don’t stereotype whole of Africa

Africa Staff Reporter - 11 Jan 2010

Thousands of fans descended on Angola's national stadium on Sunday night for what should have been a moment of national pride.

Lady of many guises

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Aug 2009

On a recent visit to Luanda Niren Tolsi discovers a city battling between dysfunction and renewal

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