“I simply tweeted saying getting loans is one way of laundering money,” explains Ana Gomes, the former Portuguese MEP who has taken on the elites of both Angola and Portugal through her investigations ...

Portugal's finance minister denied on Friday that Angola controlled too much of his country's banking sector, but said the economic straits of Portugal's former colony were a worry. The two countries ...

For centuries, black Brazilians and Portuguese descendants of Africa around the globe have danced and sung in celebration of a woman known as Queen Njinga. Their Angolan ancestors carried her name ...

Lisa Åkesson has received funding from The Swedish Research Council for her work on Portuguese postcolonial migration to Angola. Camilla Orjuela has received funding from the Swedish Research Council ...

The following is an interesting and cautionary tale for investors looking at relatively "stable" Old Europe and Africa, seemingly mired in perennial crisis. Since last year the Portuguese government ...

LISBON António Cunha Vaz, along with his mother and sister, was part of a mass exodus of Portuguese from Angola in 1975, when it gained independence before descending into a devastating civil war. But ...

Kai Ryssdal: If you’re tired of all the debt and credit gloom-and-doom coming out of Europe, allow me to recommend some of Europe’s former colonies to you. Brazil got a credit upgrade from S&P today.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese prosecutors are bringing charges of corruption, money-laundering and forgery against Angolan Vice President Manuel Vicente as part of an investigation in Lisbon, ...

My wife is Portuguese. Actually, she's of mixed Portuguese and Angolan descent. Her mother and father fled Luanda during the first years of the Angolan civil war, and settled in Lisbon. We now live in ...

Luanda — The Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, will carry out, starting this Tuesday, an official three-day visit to Angola, as part of strengthening bilateral cooperation between the two ...

Those who have visited Portugal often get the sense that the country turns its back on the rest of Europe, instead gazing out over the Atlantic – with Africa to the south and Brazil across the ocean.