By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
By Des H Rikhotso Southwestern Africa presents a fascinating study in contrasts. Angola and Namibia share a border, similar climates, and abundant natural resources, yet these...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Southern Africa stands apart. While military coups have swept across West and Central Africa with alarming regularity, the Southern African Development Community...
By Dishant Shah At first glance, the map appears to be nothing more than a transport plan: rail lines threading through the continent, ports dotting the...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When Angola finally gained independence from Portugal in 1975 – following decades of anti-colonial struggle and a transformative military coup in Lisbon...
By NJ Ayuk As global debates intensify over the future of fossil fuels, some voices urge Angola to abandon its oil and gas sector in favor...
Angola is set to become the 14th member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Free Trade Area (FTA), following the successful conclusion of a Trade...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When the late leader of Iran decided to tour Africa in mid-2023, he chose to visit states in East and Southern Africa....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Southern Africa was one of the regional security complexes in Africa that was pronouncedly affected by the Cold War. In the 1960s...
By Mary Alorh The recent visit of U.S. President Joe Biden to Africa marked a significant step in the G7’s strategy to counter China’s growing influence...
By NJ Ayuk Angolan President João Lourenço recently engaged in discussions with Aliko Dangote – founder and CEO of Dangote Industries – to explore potential opportunities,...
By Gregory Simpkins By the time this is posted on our website, there will be only days until the 2024 national elections in the United States....
By Gregory Simpkins When President Joe Biden promised during the December 2022 African Leaders Summit to visit Africa before his term ended, many observers probably thought...
By NJ Ayuk Angola has successfully transitioned from being a declining oil producer to becoming a key destination for global oil investments. The petroleum industry remains...
The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), in partnership with the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has approved up to US$200 million in funding for the...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When Portugal finally withdrew from Angola in 1975, the nation quickly descended into a civil war that would last nearly 30 years....
ANGOP | The first gold refinery in Angola, which is being built in the Viana Industrial Park in the country’s capital Luanda, will be completed later...
Bloomberg | Angola announced it’s leaving OPEC following 16 years of membership amid a dispute over oil production quotas, while the cartel tries to buoy global...
Bloomberg | Angola rejected a new output quota handed to it by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and said it planned to breach...
Bloomberg | Angolan President João Lourenço on Friday opened a long-delayed international airport outside the capital Luanda, with passenger flights scheduled to begin in early 2024....
By Caroline Kimeu When Ugandans Maureen Agena and Edward Echwalu arrived at the Lesotho border during their five-month road trip across east and southern Africa, the...
Bloomberg | Angola reduced its gasoline subsidy, almost doubling pump prices in a nation that has some of the world’s cheapest fuel. The decision comes the...
Africa Press | Angola is set to invest US$89 million to build Angola’s National Cloud infrastructure, train technicians and specialists, and store and unify government services....
Reuters | The duty-free access for nearly 40 African countries in a 22-year-old U.S. trade program is no longer enough to boost their development and a...
Reuters | African countries will use the COP27 climate talks in Egypt next month to advocate for a common energy position that sees fossil fuels as...
Bloomberg | João Lourenço was sworn in for a second term as president of Angola, 3 weeks after he won a disputed election that was challenged...
By Gregory Simpkins Elections play a significant part in the establishment and maintenance of representative democracy worldwide, but all too often, the entirety of the process...
AFP | Angolans and world leaders gathered on Sunday for the state funeral of former president José Eduardo dos Santos. The memorial service was held at...
AP | Angolans are anxiously watching the vote counting in their election race between the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party and...
AP | Angolans are voting in an election in which President João Lourenço is seeking a second term and longtime opposition party National Union for the...
Reuters | Angolan voters will choose next Wednesday, in what looks like the closest ever election in Africa’s second-biggest oil producer. Who are the main players?...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
By Wanjohi Kabukuru | The Associated Press AP | From wind farms across the African coastline to geothermal projects in the east African rift valley, a...
AFP | Angola has recovered assets worth more than US$11 billion that had been looted from state coffers and stashed in countries around the world, the...
"Chinese investments in Africa are “going on very well. The next thing I would ask from them is to allow our products to enter their market...
Two-way trade for the year to the end of August shows 40 percent rise from coronavirus-hit 2020
Economies of Angola, Nigeria and South Africa were expected to come out of recession this year.
Xinhua | Angola on Thursday made it mandatory for citizens 18 years or older to take the COVID-19 vaccine by October 15. “All citizens over 18...
Africa is increasingly and gradually becoming more competitive investment destination for decades to come because of its improving relative risk profiles, demography, and continental integration.
Angola’s economy will grow more slowly than expected this year, Vice President Manuel Vincente said on Thursday, as subdued oil prices sap public spending, hobble the...
Angola’s state oil company Sonangol will produce oil off Cuba by 2017 if the United States lifts an economic embargo following a return to diplomatic relations...
Builders of a $7-billion waterfront development in Angola’s capital, Luanda, hope to attract an international hotelier to boost the project’s profile, Bloomberg reports. Baia de Luanda SA is...
The World Bank would offer $1 billion (R10.3 billion) in financing to help Angola rebuild infrastructure and develop its agriculture, an official at the lender said...
AGOA allows 6,400 products from eligible Sub-Saharan African countries to enter the United States duty free. In 2013, according to US Department of Commerce, United States...
The World Bank will offer $1 billion in financing to help Angola rebuild infrastructure and develop its agriculture, an official at the Washington-based lender said on...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a 1 billion dollar loan for Angola to help develop its war-ravaged electricity network. The loan will also...
China and Angola plan to sign a range of agreements including in the fields of energy, finance and manufacturing, Premier Li Keqiang said after meeting President...
Post 2002 Angola has seen a rapid growth in the country’s GDP which has impacted a positive growth on the banking sector. “In the end of...
U.S. firm Cobalt International Energy has discovered significant quantities of oil offshore Angola, state oil firm Sonangol said, calling the find the biggest so far in the...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is to visit four African countries, including oil-rich Angola and Nigeria, but will not be going simply for energy deals as China...
Angola’s main port installed new cranes and provided more training to reduce its cargo unloading time by 80 percent as the government reviews a plan to...
After rebasing earlier this month Nigeria became the largest economy in Africa, surpassing South Africa, but the west African country could also lose one of its...
Angola remains a key economic performer in the continent despite a change in its global rating. “We first put Angola on a positive outlook way back...
While African governments and development partners are investing more in roads and rails infrastructure much more needs to be done for any meaningful socioeconomic impact to...
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth is set to hit 5.2 per cent, up from 4.7 per cent, the World Bank has said. “This performance is boosted by...
The implications of the shared geological history between Angola – currently producing 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) – and Brazil – 2.1 million bpd –...
Leaders never miss an opportunity to remind us of the positive changes since the end of the civil war in 2002. Take a ride on the...
The old colonial capital of Luanda is being reborn. Work is well advanced on the new multibillion-dollar international airport. Rows of luxury skyscrapers are under construction:...
(Bloomberg) – Zambia plans to establish a sovereign wealth fund to spur investment outside the mining industry of Africa’s biggest copper producer. The fund will be...
A Mozambique Airlines plane carrying 33 people crashed in a remote border area, killing all on board, Namibian media reported Saturday. The plane crashed in a...
Long serving Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. PHOTO/AFP Angola on Friday denied a report by external news reports that long serving President Jose Eduardo dos...
Oil worker on rig of Angolan coast. PHOTO/AFP (Bloomberg) – Angola, Africa’s largest oil producer after Nigeria, is imposing a consumption tax on petroleum companies that...
The Namibian government on Tuesday announced the first discovery of oil off it’s coast around the Walvis Basin. Namibia has commissioned a Rio de Janeiro-based energy...
(Bloomberg) – Angola, Africa’s second-biggest oil producer, plans to simplify taxation and more than double revenue from sources other than petroleum to curb the government’s reliance...
In 1975, just after Mozambique had won its independence from Portugal after a bitter struggle, a quarter of a million Portuguese colonialist settlers left the country....
(Reuters) – Angola’s government on Wednesday approved the guidelines of a plan to hold bidding for licences to explore for oil onshore in the Kwanza and...
South Africa’s biggest bank, Standard Bank, on Monday said that trade between China and Africa is likely to be over US$200 billion this year. The bank...
Angola on Wednesday launched a US$5 billion sovereign wealth fund to invest in domestic and overseas assets by funnelling its vast oil wealth into infrastructure and...
Angola President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. PHOTO/Press Association President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ ruling party has won 74 percent of the national vote assuring his government,...
A voter casts his ballot at a voting station in Luanda, Angola. PHOTO/AP Angola tallied ballots Saturday from its elections, expected to keep President Jose Eduardo...
People in Angola are voting for a new president and parliament, in national elections. It has been slightly more than a decade since the oil-rich country’s...
The main promenade in the capital of Luanda in Angola. PHOTO/Alamy This year Luanda, the capital of Africa’s second largest oil producer Angola, has been named...
It is 10 years since the end of the civil war in Angola. The country has made enormous strides in rebuilding its economy, which is expected...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A growing middle class has fueled Africa’s fast-growing consumer market driving the regional economy, according to...
Political parties met with Guinea-Bissau’s military junta Sunday in an attempt to reach a political solution days after soldiers arrested the prime minister in the tiny...
An unidentified military commander said Friday that soldiers who attacked the prime minister’s home don’t want to take power in Guinea-Bissau, claiming they intervened to halt...
(Reuters) – Angolan state oil company Sonangol has pulled out of a US$7.5 billion natural gas project in Iran and informed the Iranian government it can...
The government is using its oil revenues to build new cities and hire more teachers, but hundreds of people are taking to the streets calling for...
A new national railway master plan to connect Cameroon to Chad, the Central African Republic, DR Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Angola as well as...
(Reuters) – Angola does not plan to request a new loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the end of its US$1.4 billion standby agreement...
Angola’s parliament Tuesday approved a law forcing oil companies to use local banks for all their transactions, the country’s official news agency Angola Press said. Angola...
(Reuters) – Angola’s government is aiming for a balanced budget in 2012, after an expected surplus this year, as it plans to step up spending on...
The president of oil-rich Angola on Tuesday denied his country was a dictatorship but admitted there was a need for more social dialogue after a series...
LUANDA, Angola — State media say an Angolan air force plane crashed as it took off from a central base, killing 30 people including three generals....
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Kenya on Tuesday to step up its fight against graft to help lure investment from her country, which is seeking to...
OPINION - Despite the growing trend of Chinese workers marrying local African women, predictably, many in their home country have a lot to say about it..
