Five days before Angola's violent crackdown on striking taxi drivers last year, the Criminal Investigation Service detained 50-year-old Venâncio Filipe Ngondo Lucungo under accusations of rebellion, ...

Authoritarianism rarely arrives with tanks in the streets. More often, it slips in through legal texts, regulatory agencies, and administrative procedures that appear technical, neutral, even modern.

A sizeable email leak reveals how Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, manoeuvred to win a $4.5bn (R58bn) contract to build a dam. In one of his last acts as ...

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Angolan activist Rafael Marques is in favor of a forensic audit of the debt that the Lusophone country has contracted with China and an eventual renegotiation of the loans allegedly based on corrupt ...

Ex-Sonangol boss and late president’s daughter on Interpol ‘red notice’ list — but questions raised over legality of warrant Angola’s government has issued an arrest warrant for Isabel dos Santos, ...

Maka Angola has learned that the Angolan government has extended an exemption to its environmental protection policy to allow the US oil company Chevron to dump tons of hazardous oil waste directly ...

After dominating Angola for nearly 50 years, one of Africa’s longest-ruling political parties is facing a severe test from a popular opposition leader and an electorate that is increasingly angered by ...

In an unlikely location just under 600 miles east of Luanda, Angola is laying the foundations for its burgeoning diamond trade. By Western standards, Saurimo is a small town with a relatively quiet ...

For two decades under former President dos Santos, Angola repeatedly awarded multi-million-dollar contracts for complex projects to ‘johnny-come-lately’ companies with no track record. Invariably ...

New legislation enacted in January 2017 empowers the government with the ability to penalize online speech and ban online content (see Legal Environment). Prominent journalist Rafael Marques de Morais ...