Angola’s J-Lo Talks the Talk, Doesn’t Walk the Walk
On being sworn in as President of Angola last September, João Lourenço vowed he would crack down on the rampant corruption that flourished under his predecessor, José Eduardo dos Santos. He has,...
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Angola’s Attorney General “Sorry for Mistake” in Accusing Army Chief
Recently, the office of the Attorney General publicly named the Chief of Staff of the Angolan Armed Forces, General Geraldo Sachipengo Nunda, a formal suspect for criminal association. More...
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The Runaway Plaintiff Making a Mockery of Justice in Angola
In my professional career, I stood trial three times due to my exposés on the powerful elite in Angola. The first time, the plaintiffs were the President and the Attorney General (AG). The second time,...
View ArticleAnother Day in Court
Today I returned to court. The judge was in no mood for jokes, berating me for my public criticism of what was decided in the previous session. Judge Josina Ferreira Falcão ruled today against the...
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Behind the Smoke Screen: An Authoritarian New President
After the 2017 elections, the hopes ordinary Angolans placed on President João Lourenço were so high that many regarded him as a gift from God. Next September, his predecessor, José Eduardo dos Santos,...
View ArticleMy Trial and The Law to Allow Money Laundering
I am due back in court on May 21 for exposing corruption. The corrupt former attorney general of the Republic, General João Maria de Sousa, is the plaintiff. He has failed to appear in court for the...
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Angola’s Rafael Marques named 70th IPI Press Freedom Hero
Journalist Rafael Marques de Morais, who has braved decades of harassment and prosecution to expose corruption and human rights abuses in his native Angola, has been named the International Press...
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The Trial: The Plaintiff’s Confusing Complaints
Finally, on May 21, 2018, the plaintiff appeared in court, some three months after the scheduled start of the trial. The former attorney general of the Republic, General João Maria de Sousa...
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Lourenço’s “Flying Palace” and a Coconut Head
Following his 11-day European tour, Angolan president, João Lourenço, arrived home with a staggering flight bill. He spent several million dollars on a US $74,000 an hour luxurious “flying palace” that...
View ArticleProsecuting the Messenger, Absolving the Corrupt
Angola’s public prosecutor, Pedro Pederneira, calls for my conviction for the crimes of insulting a public authority and speaking against the state security (June 15). He wants me in jail for writing...
View ArticleThe Angolan Sovereign Fund and the Arch-Fraudster
When historians come to write the unexpurgated story of corruption in Angola, the chapter on how dual Swiss-Angolan national Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais enriched himself from the Angolan Sovereign...
View ArticleRafael Marques Receives the Press Freedom Award
(Acceptance speech for the International Press Institute’s World Press Freedom Hero Award received on June 22 in Abuja, Nigeria.) When the news of this award reached Angola, many of my countrymen and...
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Sums Don’t Add up for Angolan Central Bank
Angola’s central bank, the Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA) has failed to produce its accounts for the second year running, with the current BNA Governor, José de Lima Massano, forced to issue a written...
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Flying in the Face of Justice
Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais, the Swiss-Angolan ‘businessman’ who is accused of masterminding a conspiracy to defraud the Angolan Republic of untold millions of dollars, is enjoying life as a free man...
View ArticleIsabel dos Santos: The Fall of Africa’s Richest Woman
Just think for a minute. In a two-year span, a father gave his daughter, among several contracts, four that were worth over US $22 billion. The father is then President José Eduardo dos Santos, and the...
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A Cautionary Tale for Foreign Investors in Angola
It may have looked like ‘easy pickings’. The property market in Angola was booming: extreme shortages of decent housing in the face of overwhelming demand (especially in the capital, Luanda) meant that...
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Stealing from Angola’s Sovereign Fund Was This Easy
Angola’s national bank seems to have been looking the other way when the President’s son and his friend used a bank and several ‘shell’ companies to steal US $100 million, one of many schemes they put...
View ArticleThe Empress Has no Clothes
Isabel dos Santos is the woman who once boasted to Forbes magazine that she was Africa’s first female billionaire. Although Angolans knew she owed her fortune to nepotism and wholesale theft from the...
View ArticleCalling the Kleptocrats to Account
After more than four decades of official silence, Angola’s dirty secrets are being swept from under the carpet. Officially-sanctioned news reports denouncing specific cases of corruption in high places...
View ArticleTemporary Reprieve, or Pyrrhic Victory?
Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais – an indicted swindler connected to the former kleptocratic regime in Angola, accused of the brazen theft of untold millions of dollars of public money – has obtained a...
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