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Angola: Corruption Scares Investors and Discredits Government

Corruption in Angola, given as being widespread and being practised more openly than in the past, is seen in business environments as becoming more and more “acutely” a “disincentive” factor of foreign investment in the country.
Because of the “particularities” referred to in the reality of corruption in Angola, among which the unpopularity and the defiance of the regime of JOÃO LOURENÇO (JL), are also fed by perceptions such as those that it as “taken over” the life of the country, becoming a “potentiating element of social and political instability”. READ MORE