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  • President João Lourenço of Angola at the AU summit in 2018. Credit: Paul Kagame.
    AngolaBook reviewPoliticsTop story

    How power in Angola is wielded by one man

    By Cláudio Silva
    July 4, 2022
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  • President João Lourenço of Angola on a state visit to South Africa in 2017. Credit: GCIS.
    AngolaPolitics

    Angola’s regime pushes back against a growing and united opposition

    By Jon Schubert & Gilson Lázaro
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    Ahead of August elections, the MPLA is turning to old tricks in the face of rising discontentment and a popular opposition leader. The election ...
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  • At the inauguration of President Joao Lourenco in Luanda, Angola. Credit: GCIS.
    AngolaEditor's PicksPolitics

    Angola’s regime is scared

    By Paula Cristina Roque
    March 9, 2022
    With opposition and discontent growing ahead of the August elections, the security state may be more active and dangerous than ever.  As Russia’s war ...
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  • A dilapidated billboard of former president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. Credit: Carsten ten Brink.
    AngolaEditor's PicksRadical Activism in Africa

    How the radical became normal in Angola

    By Cláudio Silva
    October 18, 2021
    When everyone knows the emperor has no clothes but no one dares say it out loud, even the smallest acts of dissent become ones ...
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  • A woman and her children outside their home in one of Lobito's residential neighbourhoods in 2014. Credit: Jess Auerbach.
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    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 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 FJ
    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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