Inner circles | Angola
Sovereign fund dream team, unloved by Lourenço, fights for survival

The New Guard
Burundi, Angola, Nigeria

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

BurundiNestory Irankunda takes Burundian roots to Bayern Munich

AngolaMárcio Daniel, new minister of tourism

NigeriaWale Lawal, up-and-coming media entrepreneur

Africa
Hackers spread panic amongst African banks

African banks including Banco Sol & Bank of Africa have been targeted by cyber attacks recently. The hackers have threatened to make their data public, a threat which worries those in power who are clients of the banks.

Spotlight | Angola
Lourenço solicits cooperation from the Emirates, Mauritius and Monaco in battle against Dos Santos family

The Angolan Ministry of Justice is requesting help left and right to round up and potentially freeze the assets of the former president's daughter, Isabel Dos Santos.

Spotlight | Angola
Away from the courtrooms, the government and the dos Santos clan wage a secret war

Already engaged in innumerable court cases and arbitration battles, the smallest details of which are dutifully publicized by their respective PR teams, the family of ex-president dos Santos and the Angolan state are also fighting another less public, much less procedural battle.

Angola
Lourenço scrutinises financially diminished sovereign fund

Angolan president João Lourenço announced the opening of a tender for a contract to analyse the 2021 results of the Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA), a sovereign fund mainly financed by oil revenue.