Ravaged by a 27-year civil war and buffeted by the recent global financial crisis, Angola has suffered more than its fair share of challenges. Undaunted, its leaders are striving to reshape it into a ...

Angola, a southern African country with a population of about 19 million, is about twice as big as France. Angola is the second-biggest oil producer in Africa, behind Nigeria. The country borders ...

Global risk subsided in the first half of the year, according to Euromoney’s country risk survey, with confidence in Europe maintained and commodity producers benefiting from better terms of trade.

Angola’s capital, Luanda, is also one of the most expensive cities in the world, with a large expat population working in the country’s oil and gas sector. “We are not content or happy with the ...

Angola is rebuilding its country after the end of a 27-year civil war in 2002. Fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), led by Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, and the ...

Watch the full version of this exclusive interview on Marketplace Africa 1845 GMT on Friday 26 October, repeated at 0245, 0515, 1515 on Saturday 27 October and 0015, 1515 on Sunday 28 October. Angola ...

While much of the world has been preoccupied with the impact of the European debt crisis, Angola has been forging ahead with reforms aimed at helping it recover from its own debt crisis in 2009. Under ...

One of Africa's major oil producers, Angola is still tackling the physical, social and political legacy of a 27-year civil war that ravaged the country after independence. Following Portugal's own ...

Angola’s earth, as in so much of Sub-Saharan Africa, is red. The dust that lifts in the wind during cacimbo (the dry season) is red. The mud that engulfs half of the capital of Luanda during the rainy ...