$500m fraud case roils Angola’s ‘oil-soaked kleptocracy’
One of the world’s most notorious kleptocracies is in the news again. The son of José Eduardo dos Santos, the former Angolan president, has been named as a suspect in… Read more »
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My trial: Angolan anti-corruption activist appears in court
Prominent Angolan human rights activist and journalist Rafael Marques de Morais appeared in court Monday on charges of insulting a public authority after questioning the integrity of a former attorney… Read more »
Angola’s kleptocracy prosecutes anti-corruption campaigner
A regime officially opposed to corruption is prosecuting a prominent investigative journalist with a track record of exposing malfeasance. The head of Angola’s state-owned oil business has given first… Read more »
After Zimbabwe, signs of transition in Angola’s kleptocracy?
A revolutionary anti-colonial leader who held power for almost four decades. A government rife with nepotism and corruption. A people beset by poverty. Hope for a democratic transition, but far more… Read more »
Angola’s kleptocracy resisting greater scrutiny
Angola’s reconstruction and oil boom presented the politically connected — those with “relatives in the kitchen,” as Angolans say — with a golden opportunity for self-enrichment. In an economy driven… Read more »
Angolan activist’s prosecution is ‘retaliation’ for democracy award
Washington-based policy-makers on Capitol Hill and non-governmental groups alike are closely monitoring the prosecution of Angolan anti-corruption activist Rafael Marques, VOA reports. “Rafael was prosecuted in the past and imprisoned… Read more »
Democracy award winner charged with insulting Angola’s state
Two journalists in Angola face charges of insulting the state for an article about an allegedly unethical real estate deal involving the attorney general, The Associated Press reports: Rafael Marques… Read more »
Angola ignores corruption links as activist threatened
Angola’s authorities have ignored a Brazilian firm’s admission that it paid $50m in bribes to secure contracts in the country, despite demands from watchdogs that it join international investigations into… Read more »
Youthful dissent challenges Angola’s elite
Angola’s ruling elites are no more or less corrupt than their Western counterparts. Or that at least was the claim of H.E. Antonio Luvualu de Carvalho, the regime’s Roaming Ambassador,… Read more »
Angola facing political watershed
The announcement by Angola’s President José Eduardo dos Santos that he will step down and leave politics in 2018 after almost four decades in power is a watershed − ending… Read more »