Angola remains under the thumb of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, a paranoid party dominated by securocrats, spouting revolutionary rhetoric while gorging on the fruits of crony capitalism
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskBut Mr dos Santos’s children have other ideas. They say it is a matter for the family; one daughter, Welwitschia dos Santos, popularly known as Tchizé, insists that the burial should be in Spain. She denies that the family is using the body as a bargaining chip to seek amnesty for the various corruption charges faced by its members.
However unseemly, the saga reveals much about Mr Lourenço’s presidency. When he took office in 2017 the former defence minister pledged to root out alleged corruption centred on the dos Santos clan. He said he would diversify the economy. But the campaign against graft has stalled and the economy still depends on oil.
Such economic difficulties have helped opposition parties, most notably the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola , the’s old opponent in the civil war. Under the leadership of Adalberto Costa Júnior, the party is attracting large crowds, especially in the urban areas that account for 65% of the country’s population. A survey published in May by Afrobarometer, a pan-African pollster, suggested that support for thehad risen from 13% to 22%.
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