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Wanted: Angola issues arrest warrant for Isabel Dos Santos

Upstream Online 29 Nov 2022
However, concerns have been expressed by Rafael Marques de Morais of Maka Angola, an ...
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José Eduardo dos Santos, a legacy of kleptocracy

Mail Guardian South Africa 12 Jul 2022
The best book on the subject is Magnificent and Beggar Land by Oxford scholar Ricardo Soares de Oliveira ... To the contrary, his legacy is best summed up by long-time critic Rafael Marques de Morais, cited in the Financial Times, as “the looting and kidnapping of a country, bent to the interests of the oligarchy he created”.
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‘Civil liberties, freedom of speech improving in Angola thanks to government-led reforms’

The Jordan Times 04 Mar 2021
“In July 2018, prominent journalist Rafael Marques de Morais was acquitted of defamation charges, in what was seen as a major victory for free expression.” Using social media to mobilise support for various causes has become more common in recent years, the statement said, ...
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Angolan editor Mariano Brás questioned, investigated over article critical of president

CPJ 04 Mar 2021
Freire added that he was not given access to the case docket for details about the complaint ... In 2018, Brás, whose full name is Mariano Brás Lourenco, and Maka Angola editor Rafael Marques de Morais were found not guilty on charges of insulting the state, according to media reports and CPJ reporting from the time ....
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In Softie, politics takes a personal toll on Boniface Mwangi – and his family

Mail Guardian South Africa 26 Aug 2020
“Where are you going?” ... “I’m going to topple the government.”. Softie is not exactly what it says on the poster ... Angolan investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais was denied a visa to visit his son in Canada because he was facing “criminal charges” at home – even though these charges were trumped up by an authoritarian regime, to silence him.
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Angola: Journalist Feels Vindicated After Years of Exposing Corruption

All Africa 27 Jan 2020
In 1999, Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais wrote ...
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Angolan Journalist Feels Vindicated After Years of Exposing Corruption

Voa News 24 Jan 2020
In 1999, Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais wrote an article titled “The Lipstick of Dictatorship” in which he denounced then-President José Eduardo dos Santos as corrupt ... Marques has spent more than two decades chronicling corruption in his home country, with a particular emphasis on the diamond industry.
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Isabel dos Santos and Africa’s Lumpen-Bourgeoisie

CounterPunch 24 Jan 2020
However, peace did not ensue ... China in Angola” in the March/April 2011 World Affairs, Rafael Marques de Morais defends a more class-based analysis. ... The official propaganda motto was “Angola é um canteiro de obras,” meaning the whole country is a construction site of public works ... (Rafael Marques de Morais’s article is behind a paywall ...   .
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Angolan billionaire businesswoman Isabel dos Santos
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Isabel dos Santos did not loot Angola alone

Mail Guardian South Africa 21 Jan 2020
Exposing this evidence came at great risk to whistleblowers, and great personal cost to Maka Angola’s founder and editor, Rafael Marques de Morais. “It was Rafael Marques who constantly faced politically motivated harassment, arrest, ill treatment, imprisonment and threats against his life,” D Qaresma dos Santos added.
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Laundering Isabel dos Santos

Mail Guardian South Africa 21 Jan 2020
The news broke across international media late on January 19 2020 ... Rafael Marques de Morais, Angola’s most well-known investigative journalist and anti-corruption activist has been reporting not only on Isabel dos Santos’s financial activities, but the rest of the Dos Santos family, via his news site MakaAngola for years ... (Instagram) ...
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Angolan Billionaire Says Anti-Corruption Drive is Jeopardizing Rule of Law

Voa News 07 Jan 2020
The daughter of Angola's former president said she was blindsided by a court decision to freeze her assets. "There were no communications. We never received the summons ... "It's a great lesson for current leaders who continue to think that justice will only hit a few," journalist and researcher Rafael Marques de Morais told VOA's Portuguese service ... .
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Angola: Angola Under Lourenço - More Than Just a Promising Start?

All Africa 08 Jun 2019
Angolan activist Rafael Marques de Morais was persecuted by security agencies for his relentless exposés of corruption and human rights abuses by the Dos Santos government. But soon after João Lourenço took over as president in September 2017 he invited Marques to a meeting at State House ....
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Angola: They Called Me Crazy! - Rafael Marques de Morais

All Africa 28 Feb 2019
Mexico City -They called me crazy! They also branded me "frustrated", "anti-patriotic", "a CIA agent", "a sell-out", and "a traitor" ....
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Angolan activist talks human rights with country’s president

The Tribune San Luis Obispo 06 Dec 2018
An Angolan human rights activist says the country's president plans to investigate a case of alleged torture by police officials. Activist and journalist Rafael Marques de Morais says he told ... .
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Angolan activist talks human rights with country's president

The Washington Times 06 Dec 2018
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - An Angolan human rights activist says the country's president plans to investigate a case of alleged torture by police officials. Activist and journalist Rafael Marques de Morais says he told President Joao Lourenco at a meeting Wednesday that two Criminal Investigation Service officials allegedly involved in the ... .

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