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Angola

July 2026

  • Four men in handcuffs stand behind a table with several laptops in a courtroom

    Two Russian men jailed in Angola for terrorism and spying

    The men were convicted over alleged plan to stage coup and organise deadly demonstrations over fuel prices last year

May 2026

  • Tyla performing at the MTV EMAs in 2024, in Manchester.

    Burna Boy, Wizkid, Tyla and more took African pop global. So why don’t they tour Africa itself?

    Due to many obstacles – from security to air fares – local fans lose out as African artists tour overseas instead. But as western corporations invest, there are more worries besides

April 2026

  • TOPSHOT-CAMEROON-VATICAN-DIPLOMACYTOPSHOT - Pope Leo XIV (C) waves from the Popemobile to people gathering as he arrives to lead the Holy Mass at Bamenda Airport in Bamenda, on the fourth day of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa, on April 16, 2026. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP via Getty Images)

    The Long Wave
    The pope’s African tour shows the continent is vital to the future of Catholicism

    Amid the US far-right’s hijacking of Christianity and his very public spat with Trump, Pope Leo XIV’s visit is symbolic of the ‘growing centrality of Africa and its Black diaspora’
    Newsletter
  • Composite image of people in Africa working in the energy industry, with an image of a gas canister, a man in a hardhat and a fighter plane in the background

    The Long Wave
    How the US-Israel war on Iran is affecting African economies

    For some, the impact is already being felt but others remain in limbo over their energy security and are hostage to an unlikely de-escalation
    Newsletter
  • Pope Leo leans down and smiles at a girl after being given a bouquet of red flowers

    Pope Leo visits Algeria in sign of Africa’s growing importance to Catholic church

    Pontiff makes first papal visit to country as he starts 11-day tour that will also include stops in Cameroon and Angola

March 2026

  • Danica De La Rey Jones, Outgunned
Press publicity film still 
Signature Entertainment

    Outgunned review – action-thriller in Angola sees sadistic child-hunting gang out for revenge

    Danica De La Rey Jones’s elite fighter is targeted in a film that would be more exciting if its padded runtime was trimmed down

December 2025

  • The railway line outside Benguela, southern Angola

    US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DRC – report

    Global Witness says plan to upgrade railway line to Angola puts up to 1,200 buildings at risk of demolition

August 2025

  • Ghost Elephants.

    Ghost Elephants review – Werner Herzog embarks on a mission to track down giant jumbos

    In his inimitable fashion, Herzog follows a South African naturalist’s quest to discover a new species of elephant in Angola

February 2025

  • FILE - Namibian and ruling Swapo party President Sam Nujoma speaks during an election rally in Windhoek, Namibia, Nov. 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

    Sam Nujoma obituary

    Namibia’s first president and ‘founding father’ who led the fight for independence from the apartheid regime in South Africa

December 2024

  • Emirates airline plane being loaded

    UAE becomes Africa’s biggest investor amid rights concerns

    Activists alarmed at emirati companies’ poor record on labour rights and fear projects may fail to address environmental concerns
  • A large rat seen front-on smelling something through a hole in a sheet of glass

    Cheap, smart and efficient: how giant rats are transforming the fight against TB

    After success in Tanzania, other African countries may introduce the rodents to help sniff out the disease
  • Joe Biden.

    Joe Biden addresses America’s ‘original sin’ of slavery on Angola visit

    US president remembers ‘stolen men and women and children brought to our shores’ and lauds American investment in country

October 2024

  • A police officer throws a stone as people into a building for cover

    Breakdown in global order causing progress to stall in Africa – report

  • The US secretary of state Antony Blinken (left) shakes hands with the Angola president, João Lourenço,   in New York

    Biden to visit Angola as global powers vie for African influence

September 2024

  • Composite image of Aldofo Campos, Tanaice Neutro, Gildo das Ruas and Pensador

    Amnesty calls for release of peaceful protesters in Angola

    Health of three of four detained a year ago has deteriorated sharply after medical care withheld, charity says

August 2024

  • Padrão dos Descobrimentos, a monument building on the river in Lisbon,

    ‘I was in tears’: exhibition tells human stories of Portugal’s colonial legacy

  • A busy road with people, market stalls, buses and trucks

    Rapidly urbanising Africa to have six cities with populations above 10m by 2035

December 2023

  • Isabel dos Santos

    Isabel dos Santos has £580m of assets frozen by UK high court

    Billionaire daughter of Angola’s former president is being sued by telecoms company Unitel

September 2023

  • Contrasts, 2022, by Kim Praise.

    My best shot
    The greatest street in Angola: Kim Praise’s best photograph

    ‘I decided to get above street level and show the mix of colours: the oranges of the market set against the reds of the roofs. It is my country at its very best’

July 2023

  • Angolan giraffe in the truck before being released into Iona national park

    The age of extinction
    Driven out by decades of conflict, native giraffes make a return to Angola

    In a ‘message of hope’ the animals have been brought in from Namibia to establish a group in their historical homeland
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