Why Impoverished Angola Is Targeting a Billionairess

For all its oil and diamond riches, Angola is one of the world’s most miserable places to live. Since the end of a brutal 27-year civil war in 2002, the southern African nation has endured the plunder of state funds by a politically connected elite as the vast majority of its 31 million people remained mired in poverty. Some of those implicated in the looting have been linked with Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who stepped down as president in 2017 after 38 years in power and was replaced by his defen