Angola
Republic on the west coast of Southern Africa
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Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. It is the seventh-largest country in Africa, bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and largest city of Angola is Luanda.
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Angola's dos Santos wants graft case dropped, cites documents she calls forgedAngolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos called on Tuesday for a corruption case against her to be dropped, accusing Angolan authorities of using forged documents including a bogus passport to get courts..Reuters - Published | |
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Lisbon court seizes NOS shares held by Angola's dos SantosSonaecom, sub-holding of Portugal's Sonae, said on Saturday evening a Lisbon court seized shares in telecommunications firm NOS of a holding company it co-owned with former first-daughter and Angolan..Reuters - Published | |
Angola, Eritrea, Uganda confirm first cases as coronavirus spreads in AfricaAngola, Eritrea and Uganda confirmed their first cases of coronavirus, while Mauritius recorded its first death as the virus spreads across Africa despite measures by governments to hold it back.Reuters - Published | |
Angola to bar entry of citizens from virus-hit countriesAngola will prohibit the entry of citizens from China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria, if they travel directly from those countries, as a precaution against the coronavirus,..Reuters - Published | |
Pompeo blasts corruption, promotes U.S. business in Africa tripU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced corruption and touted American business on Monday during the second leg of an African tour in Angola, where the government is seeking to claw back billions..Reuters - Published | |
Portugal prosecutor orders seizure of Isabel dos Santos accountsPortugal's public prosecutor said on Tuesday it had ordered the seizure of Portuguese bank accounts belonging to Isabel dos Santos, who is a suspect in a fraud investigation in Angola.Reuters - Published | |
ECB's Enria blames legislative 'mess' for dos Santos fiascoThe euro zone's top bank supervisor blamed a "mess" of diverging laws across the bloc on Tuesday for the European Central Bank's failure to stop Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, who is suspected..Reuters - Published | |
Angola's dos Santos to sue reporters' consortium behind 'Luanda Leaks'Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos said on Monday she was launching legal action against a consortium of journalists and its media partners over the publication of thousands of documents about her..Reuters - Published | |
Jailed Portuguese hacker is 'whistleblower' behind Luanda Leaks: lawyersA Portuguese hacker has taken responsibility for disclosing hundreds of thousands of files revealing how billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola's former president, built her vast business..Reuters - Published | |
Angola may ask Portugal to seize dos Santos' assets, says prosecutorAngola may ask Portuguese authorities to seize assets belonging to billionaire and former first daughter Isabel dos Santos, who is a suspect in a fraud investigation at home, Angola's attorney general..Reuters - Published | |
Angola's Isabel dos Santos to relinquish stake in second Portuguese firmAngolan billionaire and former first daughter Isabel dos Santos, who is a suspect in a fraud investigation at home, will offload her controlling stake in Portuguese engineering firm Efacec, the company..Reuters - Published | |
Angola's beleaguered Isabel dos Santos to offload stake in Portugal's EfacecPortugal's engineering firm Efacec Power Solutions said on Friday Angolan billionaire and former first daughter Isabel dos Santos, who owns a controlling stake, had decided to withdraw from the..Reuters - Published | Portugal investigates firms co-owned by dos Santos; Angola may seek arrest warrantPortugal's market watchdog has launched inquiries into various firms where Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos holds stakes, after Angola's chief prosecutor said she could face an international..Reuters - Published |
Dos Santos calls new corruption allegations 'extremely false'Angolan billionaire and former first daughter Isabel dos Santos denied corruption accusations against her on Thursday after she was named a suspect in mismanagement and misallocation of funds by..Reuters - Published | Portugal's market regulator launches inquiries following Luanda LeaksPortugal's market regulator has launched inquiries into auditors and companies including oil group Galp and telecoms firm NOS following the release of files on Angola's former first daughter Isabel dos..Reuters - Published |
Angola may seek arrest warrant for dos Santos, co-suspect found dead in LisbonAngola could issue an international arrest warrant for billionaire Isabel dos Santos if she fails to cooperate with a fraud investigation in which she has been named as a suspect, its chief prosecutor..Reuters - Published | Manager of Sonangol account in Portuguese bank found dead in Lisbon: reportThe director of private banking at small Portuguese lender Eurobic and manager of Angola's oil firm Sonangol's account at the bank, Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, was found dead at his house in Lisbon on..Reuters - Published |
Angola may seek international arrest warrant for Isabel dos Santos: reportsAngola could issue an international arrest warrant for billionaire Isabel dos Santos if she fails to cooperate with a fraud investigation in which she has been named as a suspect, its chief prosecutor..Reuters - Published | Angola's Dos Santos accused of fraudAfrica's richest woman, Angolan Isabel Dos Santos, formally accused of embezzlement by country's prosecutorsBBC News - Published |
Angola pleads for help to claw back assets lost to corruptionAngola is seeking other countries' help to recover state funds lost because of corruption, Minister of State for Economic Coordination Manuel Jose Nunes Junior said on Tuesday.Reuters - Published | Angola says has reached out to other countries in corruption crackdownAngola has reached out to a number of countries for help in recouping funds lost to corruption in the past, the country's minister of state for economic coordination, Manuel Jose Nunes Junior, said on..Reuters - Published |
Portugal probes Angola leaks as Eurobic bank distances itself from dos SantosPortuguese authorities said on Monday they had started looking into media leaks concerning Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, while a small bank said it had decided to put an end to commercial..Reuters - Published | Isabel dos Santos: Africa's richest woman 'ripped off Angola'Leaked documents reveal how Isabel dos Santos made her fortune through exploitation and corruption.BBC News - Published |
Portuguese court rules against dos Santos over tweets she calls slanderCiting freedom of expression, a Lisbon court has ruled against Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of Angola's former president, who had demanded the removal of several tweets by a long-time..Reuters - Published | Angola's dos Santos moots presidency run despite chargesAfrica's richest woman and Angola's ex-first daughter Isabel dos Santos expressed interest on Thursday in running for the presidency despite an asset freeze and accusations of diverting more than a..Reuters - Published |
Angola holds off on chasing dos Santos' assets abroad: prosecutionAngolan courts have refrained from action to seize billionaire ex-first daughter Isabel Dos Santos' assets abroad but will not hesitate to do so if necessary, a prosecution spokesman said.Reuters - Published | Angolan courts could take action to seize dos Santos' assets abroad 'if necessary': prosecutionAngolan courts have not taken any action to have billionaire ex-first daughter Isabel Dos Santos' assets seized abroad but "will not hesitate to resort to such mechanisms if necessary", a prosecution..Reuters - Published |
I'm a scapegoat: Angola's Isabel dos Santos decries corruption 'witch hunt'Angolan billionaire and former first daughter Isabel Dos Santos decried a New Year's Eve court order to freeze her vast assets as a "witch hunt" engineered to weaken her father's influence and distract..Reuters - Published | Angola and Congo tell dos Santos to cooperate with justice after asset freezeThe presidents of Angola and Congo said on Sunday Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of Angola's previous leader and her Congolese husband Sindika Dokolo, should cooperate with the justice..Reuters - Published |
Angola hits "Princess" dos Santos with asset freezeAngola has frozen the assets of Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of the country's previous leader, in a sign that President João Lourenço is taking a tougher line against the former first..Reuters - Published | Angola freezes assets of ex-president's daughter in graft probeAn Angolan court has ordered the freezing of assets held by former president Eduardo dos Santos' daughter, Isabel, her husband and a business associate as part of a corruption probe, a copy of the..Reuters - Published |
Angolan ex-president's son on trial in rare corruption caseThe son of Angola's veteran ex-president faced corruption charges before the country's supreme court in a trial which opened on Monday, state news agency ANGOP said, the most high-profile case yet..Reuters - Published | José Filomeno dos Santos: Son of Angola's ex-leader in 'extraordinary' trialJose Filomeno dos Santos is alleged to have stolen $0.5bn from Angola's Sovereign Wealth Fund.BBC News - Published |
Angola petroleum minister says he supports maintaining OPEC+ oil cutsAngola supports maintaining oil production curbs by OPEC and its allies, state news agency ANGOP quoted resources and petroleum minister Diamantino Azevedo as saying on Thursday, adding that he hoped..Reuters - Published | OPEC November oil output slips before Aramco IPO, policy meetingOPEC oil output has fallen in November as Angolan production has slipped due to maintenance and Saudi Arabia has kept a lid on supply to support the market before the initial public offering (IPO) of..Reuters - Published |
