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17 August 2018

Profile: Isabel dos Santos: From billionaire “princess” to regime nemesis
Isabel dos Santos, Africa´s richest woman according to Forbes magazine, was known in her native Angola as the “princess”, until the 2017 presidential election resulted in João Lourenço replacing her father, José Eduardo dos Santos, as the country´s president.
09 August 2018

Angola bets on FOCAC 2018
Angola, one of the main Chinese partners in Africa, is organizing a high-level delegation to attend the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit in 2018, on the 3rd and 4th September in Beijing.
24 July 2018

New Angolan import and export rules take force on 15 September
Foreign exchange operations to settle merchandise imports and exports in Angola will have new rules starting on 15 September, revoking some obligations required until now.
13 July 2018

New laws for investing in Angola
The government of new Angolan president João Lourenço has made a good start in trying to improve the terms of investment for foreign firms.
04 July 2018

Profile: José de Lima Massano
Considered one of the most respected bankers in Angola, José de Lima Massano, 47, born in Luanda and studied in London.
17 June 2018

Oil Majors respond to energy sector reform in Angola
With the oil sector remaining as the “engine” of the Angolan economy, and with a forecasted decrease in oil production, the new Angolan government has prioritised introducing investor-friendly reforms.
27 May 2018

Angola’s New Private Investment Law facilitates FDI
Angola's new private investment law no longer requires investments to have a minimum limit of US$1 million and the pre-condition that local Angolan investors must take a minimum 35% stake in each foreign project.
18 April 2018

Angola seeks support from China to re-launch cotton production
Japan and China are the countries that Angola is contacting to finance the re-launch of the cotton crops in the Cassange region.
04 April 2018

Angola’s political facelift makes it more attractive to investors
Angola's biggest challenge is the regime and managing the agencies that are niftily woven into the fabric of the economy. As popularly tagged during President João Lourenço's campaign, he vowed to “improve what is good and correct what is bad”.
21 March 2018

Can Angolan agriculture learn from the Mozambican experience?
Angola has discussed reinvigorating its agriculture sector ever since 2002. Yet the reliance on oil income meant that far too little progress was actually made.
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