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. hope you doing good welcome to the program she is africa's riches woman but how did. the daughter of angola's former president really make her fortune and universities in alleges she became rich by stealing from the state the sun the dismissed claims she says she's a victim of witch hunt the international consortium of investigative journalist which published the new allegations on sunday see we have evidence of massive wrongdoing by the former 1st daughter. with me in the studio is. a journalist who's lived in writing about angola for many years welcome special they can right now tell us more about the main allegations against isabel discounters well essentially it's 2 questions one is about legality and one is

about huge flows of wealth offshore from angola and i think the big story here is that large amounts of money have gone out of angola money that could have been used for angola and development one of the one of africa's poorest countries but instead it's gone into a well a well to remains of offshore companies and real estate and normal companies all around the world and the question is whether you know whether this is happened legally or not and that's a very complex question as she says this is all a political witch hunt against her family does she have a point well there's no doubt that she is a threat to the new government the president dos santos consolidated his power since 1989 very cleverly very severe in a very sophisticated ways he created all sorts of mechanisms that would he hoped and preserve his power after he left office. and you know isabel's fortunes were

part of that. social reza doesn't need to consolidate his power doesn't need to push these people out having said that there's clearly a case to answer here that she has clearly benefited massively from state law jess and the fact that he was her father so it's kind of 2 things ok talking about she's a master to what extent of the western companies fully rule in all of this well that's one of the big stories here i think we have the habits of people in the west to point fingers at you know african countries saying look how corrupt you are look how corrupt surely designed the sure there's lots of that but we in the west really need to start taking a look at ourselves because all of this stuff is handled by big western banks by big 4 accounting firms by management consulting companies by law firms real estate firms there's a whole army an infrastructure of what you might call enablers of of the looting of african countries and other other poor countries and this is a better

a didn't abetted by western governments and it's actually encouraged by western governments because the money is kind of flowing into our countries flowing into the u.k. and the u.k. likes it that way and so it is really helping this stuff is helping the looting of africa and i think that's the biggest point that we need to realize from this story that indeed is the biggest for those who currently. in the u.k. does where she lives so the 1000000000 dollar question is could she have of these just as well i think i was she has the means to avoid facing justice and there's there's various places you know places like the u.k. a very hospitable to wealthy people you know she could go to somewhere like dubai she could get you know portugal has always been hospitable when you get a lot of money it's usually easy to state to keep away from the the arms of justice and i think the angolan justice system doesn't have a very strong power clout internationally and if the angolans want to prosecute her it will be difficult for them to bring her to justice i think some of her assets maybe she's that special but to get her actually on the hook and prosecuted. you

know if they're able to do that i think that would be a difficult thing for them to do there's a lesson journalist but it's a list of thanks for your time thank you. now let's go to angola's capital no one doubts speak to rafael marquez he's a journalist and anti-corruption campaign on and off out thanks for your time so how on golan's vats and all these allegations against isabel the santos there is so rich reaction actually this is the talk of the sound because it was long overdue that the assembly will trace its state of reckoning and the so people aren't talking much about it don't shout raise the bow was the once that if member billing books that kind of free from the shanta semele and now she's facing the music drop because she always starts to be shelter and then touch will not just remember weapon approach as well and i disagree with meek when meek

sais that she was afraid the number was because of the structure if at the last in fact she was so highly. in the country and people really had an issue with these about so she was not right because of the way she usually scorned that around people i see now as president florence you really need cracking down on corruption or isn't just easy had to go out to the big fish. i feel is not just going after the big fish we have at several. low rat meat you know medium level public officials who are steeped in now reaching out and we also have high profile general former ministers and doctors who have been indicted of crimes just at the national assembly in parliament we have several members of parliament who actually have to face justice because they are now

formal suspects in a number of the investigations so this is not a king is that is exclusive the delicious family ok everyone that i've been found to be having their hands in the pot basically cases are being brought against them it's just that their reason not to. be shot system of. came back to isabel the son says the government has already frozen her local assets what else could they do to tackle this. essentially what they can do now is too much criminal cases against her because so far it's only at is freezing the assets to recover the money she legally porridge from the state ok now there if it is that she needs to face criminal charges ok will it have to wait and see how things develop but thank you very much. for your time.

if you're going to government has announced its intention to privatized the country's 13 sugar factories as part of a drive to open up the economy and the solving almost known for its many indigenous groups on natural landscape a place known as the grass a state still poses major economic and security issues local communities feel that they have been left out of the equation a military crackdown to ensure the some amount of local villages has led to killings arbitrary detention some testimonies and there's reports none of us or the interviewee safety. this woman from the bodie tribe is mourning her husband and children they were killed by the military about 3 months ago part of a government campaign to disarm ethiopia slower oh move ali. they came to our village and started to hit us and kill us anyone who started to run away was going

to drag many people lost their lives and the village is empty now. like many other bodies' she and her family lost their farm land by one of the areas for sugar factories she says she didn't receive any type of compensation that's left her and others frustrated and there have been revenge attacks including in fact 3 employees according to this man the military attack is a retaliation for those incidents. the government collected the guns because they think of the bodies have guns they will not allow the factories to produce sugar and they will try to protect their land. after they took their guns they started to kill us and many have been jailed. about to whom the mercy of the tribe famous for their plates the women were also detained and tortured in a military camp in october in the summer queues of killings hiding weapons or stealing cattle from other tribes when this man says he was denied food for 6

consecutive days along with women and children. at some point they took 15 elders inside and started hitting the ground they also pulled in general is what i wrote about him. you know cool authorities refused to come and visit in the sugar factories to find out more was impossible despite official requests we were not allowed to get past this checkpoint or visit any other sugar plantation the local police also considerably restrained our freedom of movement in the area some suspect that the military crackdown this part of a government effort to make the area more attractive to investors by reducing conflicts the disarmament campaign started many years ago but it was not usually so violent according to better they can escape it research on the oma valley sugar factories we have to keep in mind that the cross project is not only in agricultural development scheme but it's actually like a regional development scheme which was meant to modernize. the region that the

people the people living in the low mobility and this also involves something. which can be called a civilizational mission. and also what has been described to me as a step michigan law and order so i think what we see now is just a continuation of what started maybe 10 years ago he says it will be difficult to find investors at the moment although that's a key goal of the state and sugar corporation it's a lot of technical challenges to actually make those those estates operational but it's also the reputational risk involved for the rest of us and the project got a lot of negative publicity over the last couple of years mainly due to very bad information management from the site of the sugar corporation and the way the communities that traditionally used the land have been treated or not included in the entire decision making process researchers working on the only valley have urged the government's timber sygate the allegation mercy's now fear

a new attack in the coming months some villages are still refusing to have. in their guns clinging to their own needs of protecting their families and cattle. that's it for now from did you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page we love to hear from you now with some good news these northern white writing to us there from kenya they are the only one subject left on the planet but scientists say they have. several embryos and these will be transferred into the sorry against. the white rhino in the coming months this means they should now be able to keep the species alive we can't wait to show you the results by fanaa.

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