President Joao Lourenco

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…

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

All new leaders promise change, but few deliver. Abiy Ahmed is different

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

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