Africa: Angola

Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, faces up to 12 years in jail but his lawyer said he denies wrongdoing. By Joao da Fatima (AFP/File)

Angolan ex-president's son denies $500 mn embezzlement

Dec 10, 2019

Lawyers for the son of Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos have denied that he tried to steal $500 million ...

Angola To Host The 31st AFRINIC Public Policy Meet...

Nov 26, 2019

Ebene, Mauritius, 26th November 2019: From the 2-6 December 2019 hundreds of key players in the African and Global In ...

Angolan opposition UNITA elects new leader

Nov 16, 2019

Angola's opposition UNITA on Friday elected lawmaker Adalberto Costa Junior, as its new leader taking over from Isaias S ...

Under Samakuva, UNITA traded the Kalashnikov for the ballot box -- but electoral victory remains elusive. By AMPE ROGERIO (AFP)

Angolan opposition chief hopes for election succes...

Nov 13, 2019

Angola's opposition chief steps down this week after leading the party for 16 years, contending that the former rebel mo ...

Angola: Drought, Commercial Cattle Farming Expo...

Oct 14, 2019

Tens of thousands of pastoral farmers who have been driven off their land to make way for commercial cattle ranches h ...

Prince Harry followed in his mother Diana's footsteps when he visited Angola to highlight their landmine-clearance programme. By - (The HALO Trust/AFP)

Angola says funding cuts have hit its mine-clearin...

Sep 29, 2019

Angola may well miss its target of clearing the country of landmines left after the civil war by 2025 because of a loss ...

Princess Diana walked across a cleared minefield near the central Angolan city of Huambo in 1997. By - (The HALO Trust/AFP)

'Emotional' Prince Harry treads in Diana's footste...

Sep 27, 2019

Britain's Prince Harry on Friday paid an emotional visit to a street in Angola that was once a minefield visited by hi ...

Angola is littered with mines from its 27-year civil war -- clearing the threat is slow and dangerous work. By CECILE DE COMARMOND (AFP/File)

Prince Harry in footsteps of Diana to highlight An...

Sep 27, 2019

Britain's Prince Harry on Friday walked through a cleared minefield in Angola, tracing his late mother's footsteps to dr ...

Angola And Senegal To Champion SDG7 Initiative For...

Sep 27, 2019

New York, 23 September 2019 - On the margins of the United Nations Climate Action Summit convened by the Secretar ...

Congolese migrants (pictured October 2018) gather at Chissanda border post in Dundo in northern Angola, as the Angolan government repatriates thousands of illegal immigrants as part of an operation to target diamond smuggling. By JOAO DE FATIMA (AFP/File)

Angola seizes diamonds, expels half a million migr...

Sep 21, 2019

Angolan authorities have expelled more than half a million undocumented migrants in the past year as part of an operatio ...

Russia Expresses Satisfaction Cooperating With Ang...

Aug 28, 2019

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Angolan counterpart Manuel Domingos Augusto have held talks in Moscow ...

Former soldiers find themselves destitute in the city of Kuito, which was the Unita headquarters and the site of some of the fiercest fighting during Angola's 27-year war.. By RODGER BOSCH (AFP)

Long after Angola's civil war, its veterans are de...

Jul 5, 2019

I was defending this area during the war, Domingo Seiala explains hunched over his rusted crutches -- a constant remin ...

Participants in Angola's oil industry are hoping political reforms can launch a new era after recent price slumps helped knock production down to a decade low. By Rodger BOSCH (AFP/File)

Angola bounces back after slump in fuel production

Jun 23, 2019

Angola is bouncing back after its fuel production slumped last year to a decade low as President Joao Lourenco steers re ...

Thousands of supporters of Angola's former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi rallied for his public funeral on Saturday. By RODGER BOSCH (AFP)

Divisive Angola rebel chief gets public burial 17 ...

Jun 1, 2019

Thousands of supporters of Angola's former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi rallied for his public funeral on Saturday, 17 yea ...

Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi was killed 17 years ago. By Trevor Samson (AFP/File)

Angola rebel Savimbi gets reburial 17 years after ...

Jun 1, 2019

Former leader of Angola's rebel UNITA movement Jonas Savimbi will be reinterred Saturday, 17 years after he was killed i ...

Savimbi, pictured in 1996. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP)

Angola rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in key dates

May 31, 2019

Key dates in the life of Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi, who was killed in a fight with government forces in 2002 and ...

Angola's Savimbi saga to end on Saturday

May 31, 2019

Seventeen years after the leader of Angola's rebel UNITA movement, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in a government shootout an ...