Rafael Marques de Morais

The national oil company Sonangol, which is the largest state-owned company, has been regarded internationally as an oasis of competence and good management practice in Angola.

Angola’s vice-minister of Science and Technology, Dr Pedro Sebastião Teta, has been energetically promoting projects aimed at the modernisation of the country’s information technology infrastructure, particularly for use by the public sector.

PAMBAZUKA NEWS: You have recently filed a criminal complaint against a number of generals and people who have substantial economic and political influence in Angola for alleged crimes against humanity

Since last July, thousands of Angolan citizens living in Luanda have been making desperate efforts to acquire state-funded public housing apartments in the Kilamba development.

A 2010 investigative report named three of President José Eduardo Dos Santos’ most trusted aides as business partners in seemingly illegal private business deals in oil, banking, telecom, bio fuel, and media, worth over US$1 billion.

The investigations published by Maka so far have prompted an increasing interest in bringing to light new corruption cases, as was hoped from the beginning.

The Angolan ruling party, the MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola), has over the last two years been repeating its promise to keep a watch on the administration, the management of public resources and the wellbeing of Angolans.

This report shows how the Presidency of the Republic of Angola has become the site of shady business deals, a fact that has consequences for citizens’ freedom and development, as well as for the country’s political and economic stability.

On 20 May 2002, the chairman of the board and CEO of Sonangol, Manuel Vicente, went into partnership with Grinaker LTA International Holdings, a South African company, the Banco Africano de Investimentos (BAI), and Mário Palhares in setting up Grinaker LTA Angola – Civil Construction and Public W

On 8 January, while Angola was hosting the African Cup of Nations, the country made worldwide headlines after a deadly attack on the Togolese national soccer team, which left a coach and a