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1.	Angola: Kero hypermarket - Manuel Vicente goes shopping with state money
	Author: Rafael Marques de Morais	Date Written: 25 January 2012
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Maka Angola
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://makaangola.org
	Key Words: Angola, Vicente, Kopelipa, corruption, Sonangol, banks
	Summary & Comment: Rafael Marques is the main force behind Maka Angola, and here he reveals the illegal use of state funds and assets by public servants such as Manuel Vicente, head of Sonagol, and General Kopelipa, head of the MIlitary Bureau, to gain ownership of private investment projects and assets. Who will prosecute these men, since they are protected by the P . . . [expand]
2.	Angola: Explain missing government funds
	Author: Human Rights Watch	Date Written: 20 December 2011
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Human Rights Watch
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.hrw.org/angola
	Key Words: Angola, oil, Sonangol, funds,
	Summary & Comment: The government of Angola should promptly provide a full public accounting for US$32 billion in missing government funds (between 2007 and 2010),thought to be linked to the state oil company,Sonangol, Human Rights Watch said. “Tens of billions of dollars could be used for the benefit of the Angolan people – instead the government can’t account for t . . . [expand]
3.	Angola: Tchizé dos Santos: Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
	Author: Rafael Marques de Morais	Date Written: 15 December 2011
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Maka Angola
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://makaangola.org
	Key Words: Angola, diamonds, Brazilian companies, Tchize, corruption
	Summary & Comment: The president of Angola, authorised the minister of Mining and Industry to extend the terms of a diamond mining concession in Luanda Norte province, primarily to the benefit of his daughter Welwitschea José dos Santos, usually known as ‘Tchizé’, through her company "Di Oro – Sociedade de Negócios." It was established in 2003, and is owned . . . [expand]
4.	Angola: Human Rights important to government - Official
	Author: Angop	Date Written: 9 December 2011
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Angola Press
	Secondary Category: Human Rights	Source URL: http:// http://allafrica.com/stories/
	Key Words: Angola, human rights, education
	Summary & Comment: Fatima Viegas, of MPLA, speaking at a national conference on Human Rights (Dec 8,9) gives a strong speech in support of the human rights program run by her government. She warns however not to expect too much since there has only been a short time of peace (9 years). The right to life, housing and education have been high on Government’s agenda. JK
5.	Angola: Fifty years of continued uprisings
	Author: Horace Campbell	Date Written: 1 December 2011
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Pambazuka News, Issue 560
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Angola, liberation, struggle, socialism, Lara, MPLA
	Summary & Comment: The struggle for democracy and democratisation in Angola involve far more than removing Jose Eduardo dos Santos, argues Horace Campbell, long-time student of Angolan affairs. He recounts the steps in the liberation struggle, culminating in the armed struggle in 1961 against Portuguese colonialism, up to today. Dos Santos and the MPLA elites he cha . . . [expand]
6.	Minister Teta and the Angolan technology scam
	Author: Rafael Marques de Morais	Date Written: 24 November 2011
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: Maka Angola
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://makaangola.org
	Key Words: Angola, Teta, corruption, technology,
	Summary & Comment: The author investigated and established that "Vice-minister Pedro Sebastião Teta has broken Angolan law by committing an act of illicit enrichment, proscribed by Article 25, 1, j, of the Law on Public Probity, by incorporating money belonging to the public institution that he directed, into his private finances. Ironically, President José Edua . . . [expand]
7.	Angola: Fortunes, and tables, turn for Portugal and Angola
	Author: Adam Nossiter	Date Written: 19 November 2011
	Primary Category: Angola	Document Origin: New York Times
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/
	Key Words: Angola, lending, Portugal,
	Summary & Comment: Angola has come a long way since it won independence from Portugal in 1975. By the end of 2010 it was Africa’s biggest oil exporter, and by the end of June it had $24 billion in international reserves, according to the State Department. (But it ranks only 148th on the United Nation’s 187-nation Human Development Index; around two-thirds of the popu . . . [expand]

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