Portugal slapped with €5.3 billion lawsuit over Angola diamond mine
State-funded diamond exploration in Angola has already cost Portuguese taxpayers more than €28.1 million, but now a €5.3 billion lawsuit has come into the mix complicating matters even further. SML
Urgent talks as 10,000 Portuguese workers “may soon return from Angola”
With Portugal’s employment situation far from resolved, the crisis in Angola now threatens to bring a further 10,000 nationals back home – almost all of whom will be seeking jobs
Portugal caves to Angolan general’s demand for return of seized millions
Angolan general Bento dos Santos Kangamba has won an important victory, seeing Lisbon’s court of appeal order the immediate return of his “missing millions” seized by DCIAP police investigators in
Angola sends 160 to be trained as judges and prosecutors in Portugal
Portugal’s justice system has long been criticised for its sloth, but that is not putting off Angola which will be sending 60 candidates here for training as judges and prosecutors
Angola uses its “seven wonders” to pitch for 4.6 million holidaymakers
It may be considered one of the world’s most corrupt countries (Transparency International); one of the least developed “on the planet (United Nations) and one where life expectancy and infant
Crisis in Angola impacts on Portugal and “many other countries”
The economic crisis affecting Angola as a result of the low price of oil is now being felt by many other countries, Portugal included. According to news reports coming out
Portuguese wines among €780 million-worth exported to Angola
Angola is becoming a major importer of wines, with Portugal reaping much of the €780 million-worth of benefits. Drawing to a close now in Luanda is the 2nd Angola Wine
Net tightens on BES Angola’s “lost” €4.2 billion
As the forensic audit analysing alleged irregularities at former Banco Espírito Santo is due to report to the Bank of Portugal next week, news comes of a list of people
“Barbaric” attack on Angolan embassy under investigation
A spokesperson for Portugal’s Angolan Embassy has described last Sunday’s vandalism against its premises in the Avenida da República in Lisbon as “barbaric”. Police are now investigating. The embassy’s two