Tag: Angola
Angola to amend diamond sector laws
President João Lourenço of Angola says Angola will soon make changes to how its secretive diamond industry works in order…
$500m fraud: Fund can be returned to Angola -Britain
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Monday 500 million dollars frozen in the UK as part of an ongoing…
Former Angolan President wants new MPLA leader in April 2019
Head of Angola’s ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), former President Eduardo dos Santos, on Friday said…
Angola criticised for forcing refugees to return to violent Congo
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is deeply concerned about rekindled tension in the violent Kasai region of the Democratic Republic…
South Africa’s Ramaphosa on first official visit to Angola today
The new South Africa President and leader of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Cyril Ramaphosa, is on first official…
Angola swears in new 220 legislators
The 220 new Angolan legislators elected after the general elections on Aug. 23 took the oath of office on Thursday…
Angolan Elections: Commission Extends Voting To Saturday
The Angolan National Elections Commission announced on Thursday extended voting in 15 polling centres in parts of the country to…
General Elections: AU deploys observers to Angola
The African Union (AU) has deployed short-term election observers in Angola for the general elections scheduled to take place in…
Angola’s president not contesting in presidential election
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos confirmed on Friday he will not run in this year’s presidential election, calling an…
Yellow Fever kills 400 in Angola, DRC, WHO to vaccinate 14 million
Yellow Fever has killed 400 people in Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, as the World Health Organisation,…
Nigeria, Angola turn to World Bank for help as oil revenue slides
Nigeria and Angola, Africa’s two biggest oil producers, are both in talks with the World Bank about support to help…
Church leader docked for murder
The trial of the leader of a fringe Christian sect in Angola for murder continues today. Jose Kalupeteka, leader of…
CHAN Eagles defeat Ivory Coast
Home-based Eagles, also known as CHAN Eagles, on Monday defeated Ivory Coast by a lone goal in an international friendly…
Int’l Friendly: Angola hold Nigeria’s Super Eagles
Angola’s Palancas Negras held the Super Eagles B to a 1-1 draw in a pre-African Nations Championship (CHAN) friendly in…
Nigeria, Angola to cooperate on increasing oil price
Nigeria and Angola on Saturday agreed to cooperate and also reach out to other oil producing countries in an effort…
Africa the ‘new China’ when it comes to appetite for retail
The African continent is experiencing rapid retail expansion, and is being compared to China in 1987 when it was predicated…
Crude: Angola to load more cargoes, Nigeria down
Nigerian crude oil differentials remained under downward pressure on Friday, while early indications pointed to a larger number of Angolan…
Afrobasket Women: D’Tigress overwhelm Senegal
Sarah Ogoke was the top performer on Monday at the City Arena in Yaounde, Cameroon as D’Tigress shot to the…
Angola joins global chemical weapons body
Reuters – Angola will join the chemical weapons non-proliferation body in The Hague, leaving only four countries that have not…
Nigeria make history, beat Angola to win first-ever AfroBasket title
Nigeria beat Angola 74-65 in the Final ofAfroBasket 2015 in Rades, Tunisia on Sunday to claim their first-ever continental championship.…
Total inaugurates major oil project off Angola
French oil firm Total on Thursday inaugurated a major project off Angola with a capacity of 160,000 barrels per day…
Africa’s richest woman to expand banking empire to Namibia
Africa’s richest woman, Angolan Isabel dos Santos, is set to spread her banking empire into neigbouring Namibia, after a banking…
Chinese Premier to visit Nigeria, other African countries
Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, will on Tuesday 6 May, commence visits to Nigeria, Ethiopia, Angola and Kenya. Li, who disclosed…
Angola to auction first major onshore oil concessions
Angola, Africa’s second-biggest crude producer, is to sell production rights for the first major onshore oil concessions, national producer Sonangol…
Mozambique plane carrying 34 passengers missing
A Mozambican Airlines airplane carrying 28 passengers and six crew members went missing en route from Mozambique to Angola on…
Angola Bans Islam, Shuts Mosques
Angola has declared Islam illegal and ordered all of the country’s mosques to be closed down. Minister of culture Rosa…
Angolan police kills opposition activist, detains 292 protesters
(Reuters) – Angolan security forces shot and killed an opposition activist on Saturday, hours ahead of protests across the country…
Football: Angola national coach quits
Uruguayan Gustavo Ferrin has quit as Angola coach after a string of disappointing results, the national football federation confirmed Sunday.…
OPEC probes shale oil as Nigeria, others hit
.Nigeria, Angola most hit OPEC, the oil producer cartel, is shrugging off talk of its weakening influence sparked by booming…
Angola targets 2mbd, to tie Nigeria’s output
Angola’s national oil company Sonangol said Monday it is targeting a 16 percent rise in oil production to hit 2…