Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

Angola

February 2025

  • FILE - Namibian and ruling Swapo party President Sam Nujoma speaks during an election rally in Windhoek, Namibia, Nov. 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

    Sam Nujoma obituary

    Namibia’s first president and ‘founding father’ who led the fight for independence from the apartheid regime in South Africa

December 2024

  • Emirates airline plane being loaded

    UAE becomes Africa’s biggest investor amid rights concerns

    Activists alarmed at emirati companies’ poor record on labour rights and fear projects may fail to address environmental concerns
  • A large rat seen front-on smelling something through a hole in a sheet of glass

    Cheap, smart and efficient: how giant rats are transforming the fight against TB

    After success in Tanzania, other African countries may introduce the rodents to help sniff out the disease
  • Joe Biden.

    Joe Biden addresses America’s ‘original sin’ of slavery on Angola visit

    US president remembers ‘stolen men and women and children brought to our shores’ and lauds American investment in country

October 2024

  • A police officer throws a stone as people into a building for cover

    Breakdown in global order causing progress to stall in Africa – report

  • The US secretary of state Antony Blinken (left) shakes hands with the Angola president, João Lourenço, in New York

    Biden to visit Angola as global powers vie for African influence

September 2024

  • Composite image of Aldofo Campos, Tanaice Neutro, Gildo das Ruas and Pensador

    Amnesty calls for release of peaceful protesters in Angola

    Health of three of four detained a year ago has deteriorated sharply after medical care withheld, charity says

August 2024

  • Padrão dos Descobrimentos, a monument building on the river in Lisbon,

    ‘I was in tears’: exhibition tells human stories of Portugal’s colonial legacy

  • A busy road with people, market stalls, buses and trucks

    Rapidly urbanising Africa to have six cities with populations above 10m by 2035

December 2023

  • Isabel dos Santos

    Isabel dos Santos has £580m of assets frozen by UK high court

    Billionaire daughter of Angola’s former president is being sued by telecoms company Unitel

September 2023

  • Contrasts, 2022, by Kim Praise.

    My best shot
    The greatest street in Angola: Kim Praise’s best photograph

    ‘I decided to get above street level and show the mix of colours: the oranges of the market set against the reds of the roofs. It is my country at its very best’

July 2023

  • Angolan giraffe in the truck before being released into Iona national park

    The age of extinction
    Driven out by decades of conflict, native giraffes make a return to Angola

    In a ‘message of hope’ the animals have been brought in from Namibia to establish a group in their historical homeland

May 2023

  • President Nelson Mandela, right, gives former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger a welcome hug, Johannesburg, April 1994.

    Kissinger at 100: Statesman or war criminal? His troubled legacy – in pictures

    First as US national security adviser, then as secretary of state, Henry Kissinger intervened around the world during the 1970s, shaping events in China, Africa and the Middle East, with consequences that reverberate today
  • Boys in front of a destroyed school in Camacupa, Angola.

    Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war – in pictures

    The Guardian visited Angola in 2001 as the long civil war – aggravated by the interventions of Henry Kissinger – between Unita and the government wound down. The images show how the conflict affected the people and landscape around the city of Kuito in Bie province
  • Two jowly white men in suits smile at someone off camera

    Kissinger at 100: How his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid

    Historians say the involvement in Africa of the former US secretary of state, who is 100 this week, drew the US into Angola’s war and aided apartheid after the Soweto uprising

February 2023

  • Simon Tisdall

    What do Prince Andrew, Kim Jong-un and a Ugandan general have in common?

    Simon Tisdall
    Dynasties distort open societies and should be resisted - yet succession has become an obsession for political families

January 2023

  • George Johannes

    Other lives
    George Johannes obituary

    Other lives: Anti-apartheid activist who worked in various roles for the ANC, including in London

November 2022

  • A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past mannequins and 'closing down sale' posters in a shop's window display

    Angola urges UK to take new measures on poverty

    Call over protecting most vulnerable citizens comes before UN review of Britain’s human rights record

August 2022

  • João Lourenço

    Angola’s ruling party claims victory in tightly contested vote

  • Angolan people line up outside voting station to cast ballot

    Angola’s incumbent claims election lead amid rising tensions

About 334 results for Angola
1234...
Explore more on these topics