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Angola

  • A woman and her children outside their home in one of Lobito's residential neighbourhoods in 2014. Credit: Jess Auerbach.
    AngolaCovid-19Society

    Writing about “that kind of country” in a time of coronavirus

    By Jess Auerbach
    March 19, 2020
    Now more than ever, it is essential that writing on Africa focuses not just on devastation and despair but beauty, success, dignity, love and ...
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  • Africa InsidersAngola

    Africa Insiders: #LuandaLeaks over Isabel Dos Santos

    By Africa Insiders
    January 23, 2020
    The essentials: A massive leak of 715,000 documents to the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa led to a massive investigative journalism effort coordinated by ...
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    Angola’s oil could actually be the DR Congo’s. Here’s why it isn’t.

    By Patrick Edmond, Kristof Titeca & Erik Kennes
    October 3, 2019
    About half of the oil being produced by Angola is in Congolese waters, according to the UN convention that defines maritime borders. Angola’s politics ...
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  • President João Lourenço has raised hopes for change in Angola since coming to office in September 2017. Credit: Eu sou João Lourenço.
    AngolaEditor's PicksPolitics

    President Lourenço’s anti-corruption drive changes the rules in Angola

    By Rebecca Engebretsen
    October 10, 2018
    Several allies and relatives of the former president have been arrested on corruption charges. What effect is this crusade having on the country? President ...
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  • Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos (right) meeting his South African counterpart. Credit: GCIS.
    Africa InsidersAngolaKenya

    Insiders Insight: The downfall of the Dos Santos family

    By Africa Insiders
    October 3, 2018
    This week, we have a couple of free preview sections (scroll down), the first an update on a fresh young campaigner in Kenya, the other ...
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  • João Lourenço became president in September 2017. Credit: GCIS.
    AngolaPoliticsTop story

    No puppet: President Lourenço stamps his authority on Angola

    By Felix Janvrin
    November 21, 2017
    Two months into office, Dos Santos’ handpicked successor is systematically removing the former president’s children from state power. On 15 November, as most of ...
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  • South Africa's Jacob Zuma (left) and Angola's Jose Eduardo Dos Santos (centre) enjoy good relations with DRC's Joseph Kabila (right). Credit: GCIS.
    AngolaCongo-KinshasaPoliticsSouth Africa

    “Never Betray Congo”: A warning to the SADC Summit

    By Aditi Lalbahadur
    August 18, 2017
    South Africa and Angola’s leaders may be preoccupied with domestic events, but they ignore Congo at the region’s peril. This weekend, as the Southern ...
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  • Isabel Dos Santos, daughter of the president, is reportedly Africa's richest woman and heads up the state oil company Sonangol.
    AngolaEconomyEditor's PicksPolitics

    Angola’s ruling family is worth billions. What happens when dad steps down?

    By Rebecca Engebretsen
    August 14, 2017
    After nearly four decades in office, President José Eduardo Dos Santos is due to hand over power after Angola’s 23 August elections.  After 38 ...
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    Photo of the Week: Luanda Sunset

    By Nicola Sacco
    April 21, 2017
    A family walks at sunset along Avenida 4 de Fevereiro, also known as Avenida Marginal, the beautiful waterfront of the Angolan capital. Luanda was ...
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  • AngolaPolitics

    AAP#11: No, Angola’s President dos Santos will not step down just yet

    By Peter Dörrie
    March 15, 2016
    Just hours after President José Eduardo dos Santos declared his intention to step down in 2018, we sat down with Angolan journalist/activist Rafael Marques ...
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