Angola President's anti-graft war bears fruit, but earns him enemies
Friday, October 23, 2020

Luanda. Angola's Parliament is next Tuesday expected to debate whether a popular legislator should lose immunity and face court for his past corrupt dealings. It is a first for the country beating a new path in the graft war.

The country's Supreme Court asked the legislature to waive immunity for Manuel Rabelais to see him lose the seat and be prosecuted.

Now Angola has improved 21 places on the Corruption Perception Index. Published annually by graft watchdog Transparency International, it shows that Angola was the most corrupt country in the SADC region, ranked at 167 out of 198 countries. It is now ranked 146 out of 198. That may still be awful for a country in dire need of governance reforms, but dos Santos' final years had witnessed a drop of at least three places every year.

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