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Swiss make raids in probe linked to Angola sovereign wealth fund
Angola’s $5 billion sovereign wealth fund has been embroiled in a dispute with its former boss and the Swiss-based asset manager, Quantum Global.
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‘Angola plans to privatise over 70 state companies’
The prospectus does not list the companies or say how much the privatisations could raise.
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Quantum Global cries foul as Angolan fund seeks more asset freezes
Angola’s $5 billion FSDEA fund said it was sacking Quantum Global as its asset manager because it was concerned about the way its funds were being invested.
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Angolan president sacks armed forces, spy bosses in latest purge
President Joao Lourenco succeeded Dos Santos last September, pledging to tackle an endemic culture of corruption and bring economic reforms to Angola.
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Angola satellite inoperative, Russia to build another one
The satellite, AngoSat-1, has been plagued by problems including the loss of communications and is now regarded as a write-off,
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Angola charges son of ex-president Dos Santos with fraud
Dos Santos is the highest profile figure to be charged since President Joao Lourenco succeeded longtime leader Jose Eduardo dos Santos last September pledging to tackle an endemic culture of corruption.
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Britain says $500mn from alleged fraud can be returned to Angola
Last week, Angolan prosecutors charged former central bank governor, Valter Filipe da Silva, in relation to the alleged $500 million fraud attempted against the Angolan government.
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UN criticises Angola for forcing refugees to return to violent Congo
Angola’s government forced 530 Congolese to return to Congo between 25 February and 27, UNHCR said in a statement on Tuesday.
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President Ramaphosa to visit Angola, Botswana & Namibia
President Cyril Ramaphosa is the current chair of the regional Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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Paradise Papers: Dos Santos’ son made almost a billion rand from people's fund
Jose Filomeno (39), was put in charge of Angola’s sovereign wealth fund that generated $90 million between May 2014 and the end of 2015.
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Angola’s first new president in 38 years vows to fight graft
João Lourenço vowed to rebuild an economy devastated by falling oil prices and fight corruption at his inauguration on Tuesday.
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New Angolan president Joao Lourenco sworn in
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who became president in 1979, was at Tuesday’s ceremony attended by dozens of African leaders, including President Jacob Zuma.
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Angola's opposition appeals election results
UNITA presented the appeal, accompanied with boxes of supporting documents rolled into court offices in shopping trolleys, late on Friday.
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Angola's ruling MPLA wins election with 61% of vote: electoral commission
The main opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) took 26.67%, with the smaller opposition party CASA-CE winning 9.44%.
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SA to push Angola to pay R850m debt owed to SAA
SAA is owed about a billion rand in revenue earned in other African countries, with Angola the single largest debtor.
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Angola's ruling party handily wins election, but opposition cries foul
The MPLA took 61.1% of the votes counted compared with the opposition UNITA party’s 26.7%, results showed.
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[LISTEN] What are latest developments in Angolan election?
Angelo Coppola, a freelance journalist and business correspondent, weighs in.
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Angola's ruling MPLA takes commanding lead in provisional vote count
The provisional results were based on about 63.74% of the votes cast, said Júlia Ferreira, spokeswoman for National Electoral Commission.
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Angolans await election results
The Presidency has reportedly pressed pause on the release of the preliminary results after a crisis meeting in the early hours of the morning.
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Angola election process ‘meets international standards’
Angolans voted to elected a new a leader for the first time in nearly 40 years.
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Angola's presidential candidate João Lourenço casts vote amid media mayhem
Long-standing President José Eduardo dos Santos is stepping down after hand-picking his successor.
