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Former president of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos.

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…

A mixed bag for human rights in Southern Africa in 2019

A mixed bag for human rights in Southern Africa in 2019

Abuses continued from Angola to Zimbabwe but there were also victories for people’s rights

Jose Filomeno dos Santos, nicknamed Zenu, was appointed head of the $5-billion fund in 2013 by his father, president at the time.

Former Angolan president’s son freed from prison

Jose Filomeno dos Santos was released from prison on Sunday where he had been held for seven months in an embezzlement case

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

Mozambique’s financial scandal may get even bigger

Mozambique’s parliament has lifted immunity for its ex-finance minister Manuel Chang, detained in SA on a US-issued international arrest warrant.

Despite promises to diversify the economy and fight corruption, President João Lourenço’s actions so far appear contradictory to his publicly voiced intentions.

Angola: President Lourenço’s grace period is over

The country’s economic troubles began in 2014 when global crude oil prices dipped, hampering the government’s ability to generate revenue

For three months now the Kaombo Norte has been anchored off the northern coast of Angola and has recently begun to pump up crude oil secreted in the depths below.

Angola bets on largest-ever offshore oil investment

Angola was badly hit by the oil-price plunge in 2014

Former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his daughter Isabel in the background. (AP)

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

With a firm grip on the party and a stabilising economy, JLo’s priority will be to stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and improve government delivery. (EPA)

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

Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos did not seek re-election in the August 2017 polls and handed the reins of power to his defence minister Lourenco. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Angola’s ex president steps down as party chief

The passing of the baton between the two men is the climax of a handover marked by barely disguised friction

At age 42, Abiy is considerably younger than the old guard and, with the sympathy of many protesters, he appears well suited to the task of assuaging the grievances of the country’s neglected groups. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

Ethiopia’s 100-day revolution

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

Jose Eduardo dos Santos appointed his son to head Angola’s $5-billion oil-fuelled sovereign fund in 2013

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

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

In Angola – Southern Africa’s largest oil producing nation – President José Eduardo dos Santos handed over power in 2017 after 38 years at the head of the country’s ruling MPLA

Is the wind of change blowing across southern Africa?

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

Former president of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos.

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

Jose Filomeno dos Santos, nicknamed Zenu, was appointed head of the $5-billion fund in 2013 by his father, president at the time.

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

With a firm grip on the party and a stabilising economy, JLo’s priority will be to stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and improve government delivery. (EPA)

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

Isabel dos Santos’s fortune appears to largely be a result of decades of looting facilitated by management consultant companies and other international enablers. (Gallo)

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.

President Zuma spoke to President Robert Mugabe earlier today who indicated that he was confined to his home but said that he was fine.

Zuma, Angolan president head to Zimbabwe on behalf of SADC

​SADC has decided that President Zuma and Angolan President Joao Lourenco will travel to Zimbabwe to meet stakeholders and assess the situation

Yesterday’s man: Robert Mugabe

As skittles topple in Zim and Angola, is Zuma navel-gazing?

‘At times like this, the city’s charm wears thin. Durban might as well be in Mongolia. Or Zimbabwe’

Isabel dos Santos has been fired as head of the Sonangol state oil company.

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

João Lourenço will replace José Eduardo dos Santos who ruled  oil-rich Angola with an iron grip for 38 years.

Who is Angola’s next president João Lourenço?

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?