Quick Glance: Africa: Egypt's President Sisi Sworn in for Third Term
- Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is set to be sworn in for a third consecutive six-year term.
- Power has been restored in Tanzania after a nationwide blackout caused by a technical fault.
- Mali parties are calling for elections 'as soon as possible' following the end of the extended transition period.
- In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Judith Suminwa Tuluka has been appointed as the country's first female prime minister.
Quick Glance: Isabel dos Santos Loses Battle Against $733 Million Asset Freeze
- Angolan billionaire loses legal battle to prevent £580 million ($733 million) freeze on her assets in London’s High Court.
- She is being sued by Angolan telecommunications company Unitel for allegedly procuring £365 million ($461 million) in loans for personal benefit.
- Court orders dos Santos to disclose assets worth £33.5 million ($42 million) in the UK and over £86.5 million ($95 million) in Monaco and Dubai.
- She denies wrongdoing, claiming the allegations stem from a political feud.
Quick Glance: Isabel dos Santos: Court Freezes Billions in Assets
- Isabel dos Santos is the daughter of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos.
- A court in London issued a worldwide freezing order over her assets.
- The legal case against Ms. Dos Santos involves significant loans from Unitel to another company.
- The company controlled by Ms. Dos Santos has stopped paying interest on the loans, leading to legal action.
Quick Glance: Dutch court finds director mismanagement allowed illegal transfer of millions by Isabel dos Santos
- Isabel dos Santos was able to divert 52.6 million euros from the Angolan state oil company to her own company through director mismanagement and forged documents.
- The money was siphoned through Dutch private limited companies from the company Esperaza, which was wholly owned by Sonangol.
- A dispute between Sonangol and Exem over the legality of the acquisition of the 40% interest of Exem in Esperaza was settled in favor of Sonangol in 2021 by a tribunal of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute.
- According to the Dutch investigation, Isabel dos Santos had signed false resolutions to transfer 52.6 million euros in dividends from Esperaza Holding BV to her own company.
Quick Glance: Africa's First Female Billionaire and Former Richest Woman Faces $400 Million Lawsuit in London
- Isabel dos Santos, Africa's first female billionaire and former richest woman in the country, is now facing a $400 million lawsuit.
- The daughter of the country's former president has been added to a $400 million lawsuit brought by Angolan telecoms operator Unitel against a company she owns, as ruled by London's High Court two weeks ago.
- The two companies are not related despite having the same name, and dos Santos, who owns UIH, resigned as a director of Unitel in 2020.
- Unitel had applied to personally add dos Santos - Africa's first female billionaire, whose father Jose Eduardo dos Santos ruled the country of Angola for 38 years until 2017 - to its case against UIH.
Russia mulls opening TV network -RT (Russia Today) in South Africa++Kenyan President William Ruto vows to crack down on crime in capital Nairobi++DRC ... Show more
"I'm not hiding," Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, said in an exclusive DW interview ... Show more
Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola for nearly four decades, was buried on Sunday. Dos Santos died in July of cardiac arrest in a Barcelona hospital ... Show more
A Spanish court has ruled that the body of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, who died last month in Barcelona ... Show more
Quick Glance: The body of Angola's former president will arrive in Luanda on Saturday, according to the authorities.
- Jose Eduardo dos Santos died in July in Spain.
- Dos Santos, who retired five years ago, died on July 8 at the age of 79 in a Barcelona clinic where he was being treated for a protracted illness.
- Tchize and her lawyers have maintained that dos Santos" wish was to be buried in Barcelona rather than his body being returned to Angola for a state funeral, which they say dos Santos" successor, Joao Lourenço.
Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, has died aged 79 ... Show more
Quick Glance: Former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has died at the age of 79.
- Dos Santos came to power four years after Angola obtained independence from Portugal, and the country got embroiled in the Cold War as a proxy battleground.
- Dos Santos was unassuming in public, even appearing shy at times.
- When Agostinho Neto, Angola's first leader, died in 1979, the MPLA unexpectedly chose dos Santos as president at the age of 37.
- He changed the constitution so that the president is appointed by the winning party in the parliamentary elections.
- This kept him in power for a further eight years.
- However, due to his deteriorating health, Dos Santos announced his retirement in 2016.
Angola's ailing former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos is in a "critical and delicate" condition after suffering a cardiac arrest last week ... Show more https://t.co/Q945AjJJxk #MonitorUpdates
Quick Glance: Photographers record the aftermath of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination.
- People tackle a man accused of shooting Shinzo Abe to the ground.
- Immediately following the incident, emergency personnel arrived on the scene.
- Akie Abe arrived at Nara Medical University Hospital just before her husband died.
- A woman sobs near the shooting site of Shinzo Abe.