Workers want to raise the minimum wage from $38 to $288, but the state has rejected this, proposing $45
Kuduro, an urban dance music style, pays post-apocalyptic tribute to Angola’s capital city
This extract from the book Ten Cities details the evolution of the club scene in Nairobi, with a focus on the mid-1990s
Critiques of corruption must explicitly disrupt corporate globalism, imperialism, racism, authoritarianism, militarism, elitism and sexism
Jose Filomeno dos Santos planned to siphon off $1.5-billion when he ran Luanda’s sovereign wealth fund, government says.
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled Angola since 1979, will not contest the August 23 election
Angola, Africa’s second-largest oil producer, has become the latest country on the continent to launch a sovereign wealth fund.
In post-election Angola, the ruling party can no longer count on threat to retain the hearts of voters.
Twenty-one people have appeared in court in Angola, charged with public order offences, following a rare anti-government demonstration.
Two children have died in a wave of poisonings in Angolan schools, but police have yet to identify the toxin that has sown panic in the country.
Oil revenues have made Angola one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa, but the high cost of living makes life difficult for many.
An intoxicated boy shuffles along a teeming street in Luanda casually gulping vapours from a plastic bottle that contains petrol.
Substitute Mohamed Nagui scored a winner five minutes from time to hand Egypt an unprecedented third successive African Nations Cup title.
Algeria and Ghana are one step away from the Africa Cup of Nations final after stunning favourites Côte d’Ivoire and hosts Angola respectively on Sunday.
Algeria became the first World Cup qualifiers to win at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations on Thursday while hosts Angola also took maximum points.
Thousands of fans descended on Angola’s national stadium on Sunday night for what should have been a moment of national pride.
Rumours that Angola is not ready to host the 2010 Cup of Nations are ”absolutely rubbish”, a senior African Football Confederation official has said.
On a recent visit to Luanda Niren Tolsi discovers a city battling between dysfunction and renewal
President Jacob Zuma signed on Thursday an oil agreement with his Angolan counterpart during a visit aimed at strengthening economic ties.
Even as Pope Benedict XVI said his heart cannot be at peace while people are homeless, critics said thousands have been evicted from church land.
