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 oil wealth. During dos Santos’ 38-year rule from 1979, his offspring occupied top positions in the government and in lucrative sectors ranging from banking, telecoms and media to […]
Abuses continued from Angola to Zimbabwe but there were also victories for people’s rights
Jose Filomeno dos Santos was released from prison on Sunday where he had been held for seven months in an embezzlement case
Mozambique’s parliament has lifted immunity for its ex-finance minister Manuel Chang, detained in SA on a US-issued international arrest warrant.
The country’s economic troubles began in 2014 when global crude oil prices dipped, hampering the government’s ability to generate revenue
Angola was badly hit by the oil-price plunge in 2014
One year ago, the Dos Santos family handed the Angolan presidency over to João Lourenço. Now the ex-president’s son has been arrested
João Lourenço’s first year in office has been marked by notable reforms. If ordinary Angolans are to benefit this momentum must continue
The passing of the baton between the two men is the climax of a handover marked by barely disguised friction
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Jose Filomeno dos Santos planned to siphon off $1.5-billion when he ran Luanda’s sovereign wealth fund, government says.
With the possibility of a election and presidents stepping down at the end of 2018, what is certain is that the region will look very different
Lourenco’s manoeuvering against the nepotistical vestiges of Angola’s last president began in November with the toppling of Isabel dos Santos
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Jose Filomeno dos Santos, who was implicated in the "Panama Papers" offshore scandal, will be replaced by former finance minister Carlos Alberto Lopes
In November, within three months of taking control of Angola, Lourenco sacked dos Santos’s daughter — Africa’s richest woman
In recent weeks, several Angolan media outfits have accused dos Santos of ordering suspect transfers and payments worth tens of millions of dollars.
SADC has decided that President Zuma and Angolan President Joao Lourenco will travel to Zimbabwe to meet stakeholders and assess the situation
‘At times like this, the city’s charm wears thin. Durban might as well be in Mongolia. Or Zimbabwe’
Angolan President Joao Lourenco has fired his predecessor’s daughter, Isabel dos Santos, from her influential post as head of the state oil company
Angola’s João Lourenço will be sworn in on Tuesday as the president but who is the man who ran on the ticket of the MPLA?
Crucially though, Dos Santos will retain control over the MPLA itself until 2022 at the earliest, health permitting.