The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
Massive protest emerged in Luanda, Angola. As thousands of protest demanded transpiracy in the governance by government authorities, in response to this Authorities sent security forces to curb their protest. Mob police terminated poisonous gas and beat dissenters to separate exhibitions including around 2,000 individuals. Demonstrators raised blockades along the streets utilizing dumpsters, rocks, tree […]
Two Former General in Angola has been mentioned in participating in a large corruption scheme, this comes as a surprise to many who has been left surprise due to the officers been well respected and well decorated. Angola opened the hearing of two excessive rating army officers, General “Kopelipa” and General “Dino”, who are accused […]
President of Angola, Joao Lourenço continues to probe immediate past president José Eduardo Dos Santos. In a detailed interview with the BBC, Lourenco estimated that the united states misplaced up to US$24 billion bucks underneath the former administration of president José Eduardo dos Santos. According to the president, over half of the figure US$13.5 billion […]
Dozens of Angolans marched on Saturday against alleged state corruption after Portuguese media accused the president’s chief of staff of embezzlement, damaging the credibility of an ongoing anti-graft campaign against the former regime. Private Portuguese broadcaster TVI 24 last month investigated several public contracts awarded to firms owned by Angolan President Joao Lourenco’s chief of […]
The Runways are Ready Ready for takeoff, commercial flights in Angola which resumed this week following their suspension in early March at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic — with only domestic flights available for booking as of now. The first highly anticipated roundtrip flight between Luanda and Cabinda on Monday was surrounded by confusion […]
A Doctor Mysteriously Dies in Police Custody Angola’s Doctors’ Union led around a hundred protesters in a march thru the city centre in Luanda on Saturday to denounce police brutality and demand an investigation into the suspicious demise of Silvio Dala in police custody after he used to be arrested for using except a face […]
Angola’s legal professional common has seized structures and motels belonging to AAA, a organization related with Carlos Manuel de São Vicente whose $900 million fortune has been frozen via Swiss authorities. De São Vicente was once a key determine in Angola’s oil industry, heading a group of companies, along with AAA Seguros, which offered insurance […]
African films are making a debut on Netflix. “Santana” is an action film that shows the rivalry between two brothers and police officers in the fight against organized crime. It is a co-production between Angola and South Africa, directed by Maradona Dias dos Santos and Chris Roland, which premieres on August 28th on Netflix. Santana […]
Jailtime for the Former President’s Son Billionaire behind bars, Jose Filomeno dos Santos, son of the former president who ruled Angola for 38 years, was sentenced to five years in prison by the nation’s Supreme Court in Luanda on Friday for a multi-billion dollar embezzlement scheme attempting to transfer to $1.5 billion into a private […]
The National Assembly (AN) approved, in general, this Friday, the Proposed Law on Sustainability of Public Finances, with one hundred thirty votes in favor, no towards and forty two abstentions. The draft Law provides for the advent in Parliament of the Public Accounts Committee, a mechanism that is phase of the strengthening of the effectiveness […]
According to forecasts from the Institute for Studies and Security (ISS), based in Pretoria , South Africa, Angola could become the fourth largest economy in Africa before 2050. During the aforementioned time the nation will have a nominal GDP of USD 994 billion behind Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, according to the ISS report. The […]
The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, congratulated, last Monday, the elected President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera. At the age of 65, leader of the Malawi Congress Party, Lazarus Chakwera won the June 23 elections with 58.57% of the votes. In the congratulatory message, João Lourenço says that the election of Lazarus Chakwera “is a […]
Kenya surpassed Angola as sub-Saharan Africa’s third-largest economy in dollar terms, according to International Monetary Fund estimates. Angola has contracted every year since 2016 as oil output declined, and the kwanza was devalued in 2019 while Kenya’s shilling held steady. The coronavirus pandemic and restrictions to limit its spread will probably see Angola’s gross domestic […]
Angolan authorities have isolated a suburb of the capital Luanda after a number of cases were discovered there. The move is part of efforts to contain spread of COVID-19. It comes despite the relaxation of lockdown measures imposed on Luanda. The development has attracted varied responses in the area most of them of residents expressing […]
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting Senegal, Angola and Ethiopia on his maiden African trip. He is also the first U.S. Cabinet official to visit in more than 18 months. He left Senegal Sunday to go to Angola and after that will travel to Ethiopia as the Trump administration tries to counter […]