How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

Friday, 14 August 2020

War on Graft: New Africa Is Born in Angola where the Son of Former President Is Jailed

 Angola's Jose dos Santos' son remanded on corruption charge - TODAYAngolan ex-president dos Santos denies ties to daughter's alleged ...After suffering from graft silently whereby those sharks involved do it with total impunity, Africa is now waking up. The news that the son of the former president of Angola, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Jose Filemon dos Santos received a five-year jail sentence after being found guilt of embezzling $1.5 billion is good news for anti-graft campainers and the general public that's for many years suffered from the vice. While the son of Angolan ex-president is now legally a prison, his sister is waiting for the same. She  fled Angola after being accused of embezzlement of billions of dollars. In Senegal, the son of former president Abdulaye Wade, Karim, in 2015, received a six-year jail sentence to end up being pardoned a year after under suspicious presidential pardon. Will this be replicated in Angola?

Senegal: Abdoulaye Wade's son denies 'monarchy plans' - BBC News

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