>> narrator: now, two stories on this speciaedition of frontline. first, in afghanistan, with peace talks ongoing... >> we've been wanting to make a deal and so have the taliban... >> narrator: correspondentur najibullah qshi on the ground with taliban and isis fighters. >> mullah barada is the co-founder of the taliban. >> narrator: and an exclusive interview with the taliban leer negotiating with the u.s. and later, in angola-- a worldwide investigation of africa's richest woman. >> in this case the daughter of the president... >> narrator: a trove of more

than 700,000 leaked documents. >> so there is an orchestrated attack by the current government that is comptely politically motivated. >> narrator: and how big-name american companies are involved. >> they're helping a very, very rich woman who's taking money from angolan taxpayers becomeev en more rich. >> narrator: these two stories frontline.ecl edition of >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you.an you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, coitted to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. and by the ford foundation: working with visnaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. additional suppo is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in jonalism. the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the john and helen glener family trust.

supporting trustworthy journalism that informs andir in. the heising-simons foundation: unlocking knowledge,y, opportunnd possibilities. and by the frontline journalism fun with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. >> a soldier from fort bragg wakilled after an explosion in afghanistan. >> in another deadly attack, car bomb exploded in a crowded street. 95 people are dead. >> a bunch of people have been killed in eastern afghanisn in an airstrike carried out by government and u.s. forces. >> two americans we killed during a military operation early today, casualties of thet longwar in american history. >> narrator: novembe2019, afghanistan. journalist najibullah quraishi is making a dangerous journey into taliban territory. >> we just left kabul.

our driver was warning, saying there are going to be taliban, it's going to be a problem for you. those big holes are all from the ied explosions. >> narrator: najibullah s been covering the war here for almost 20 years. (gunfire) he was here in 2001 when the u.s. and its allies invaded and drove the taliban from power. in the decade that followed, they filmed many times with the taliban as they fought back and regained territory across the country. and in 2015, he met with isis fighters when the group was first emerging here. now, najibullah has returned to his home country at a critical moment. president trump has committed to end america's longest war, and has even been negotiating a peace deal with the taliban. but the situation on the ground remains violent and unpredictable. >> the driver is telling me, th fore yesterday, there was

three explosions. they put an ied, and mainly for the government vehicles. >> narrator: najibullah is heading into a taliban ronghold neathe city o ghazni, less than 100 miles from the capitol, kabul. >> this is ghazni town. it's under control of thego rnment, but they control just the government compound. last night was fighting, from behind these shops. ttthe taliban, they were aacking on the government. it's mean they are everywhere. narrator: he's had to make a complicated plan to get in the taliban-controlled territory. >> must go with the drivers from the same area, because the car is known for the taliban. this is the car they suggested to be there. (horn honks) this was the last checkpoint we just crossed.

from here onward, the taban,e they'r power. ♪ >> narrator: u.s. and afghan forces had driven the taliban from this strategic mountainbu valley, now, this is taliban country. >> we are in the town where we are supposed to be. there is a talib with a walkie-talkie. maybe he is going to direct us, i don't know. >> narrator: najibullahis team are met by a local commander. they are joined by more and mors armed figh they head to the group's base, which flies the white flag of the taliban. najibullah is concerned that g such a larup could be the target of an airstrike. >> we want to do the interviews very fast, because of the drone.

>> narrator: the taliban leaders here claim they now control more territory than at any point since the u.s. invaded in 01. (speaking local language): >> nrator: the afghan government disputes this, and claims it controls 94% of thepu tion. ♪ but to show the extent of their territory, the taliban here let najibullah and his team fly a drone over the valley. they perform military drills out in thepen. ahmadi (speaking local language)

>> narrator: the fighters gather around najibullah's colleague, karim shah, who's be operating the drone camera. >> narrator: another commander leads them to one of the villages under taliban control. (engine humming) the are few people on the streets. buafter the taliban escort leaves, one resident approaches them. man (speaking local language):

>> narrator: the taliban is seeking ultimate control of the country, and refes to negotiate with the afghan government, which it regards as. a uppet. najibullah asks the commanders here what it would take to end the fighting. ra >> nartor: for over a year, as part of the u.s. effort to withdraw from afghanistan, the trump administration has been conducting on-and-off negotiations with the taliba leadership. but the fighters here were frustrated that president trump had recently suspended the talks after an american soldier was killed.

ahmadi:

>> narrator: najibullah and hisc team are eted out of the valley. ♪ they take the battle-scarred road back to kabul. ♪ he's surprised by what he's see and heom the taliban. >> this specific group i met, they were completely different than previous groups i've met before rmally, when i was embedding with a group of the taliban, ey were preparing for fighting, to block the road, but this group was completely different. they didn't have anything to make them worry, because the entire area was belong to them. >> nartor: but beyond the taliban's gains, the fate of afghanistan is also tied to the threat from isis

while the group has lost most of its territory in iraq and syria, its militants are still active here. they claim to have thousands of fighters, and have been responsible for major attacks in kabul. >> my ne plan is to meet a group of isis in afghanistan. i already send the request to different regions of afghanistan. currently, i'm on standby, and i'm waiting for the phone calls. ♪ >> narrator: as he is waiting, the afghan government makes a major annocement. they claim that more tn 600 isis fighters and their families have surrendered. in an interview, the afghanec nationality advisor easists that isis, or daesh, no longer poses a t >> daesh has been a threat in afghanistan. they committed some... a lot of brutal acts against our people. et we are glad to report that we have managed minate their sanctuaries in afghanistan. i can't say that their ideoly

is completely eliminated, but they don't have a territorial control in any parof theor country an >> narrator: but the next day, najibullah gets word that an isis cell is wling to meet him. he is told to head north. ♪ he flies into the city of mazar-i-sharif. a go-between will take him to isis. >> when you go somewhere, you are in the hands of somebodyan else, theyo whatever they want to. ry why do it, then? >>ell, is vemportant to find out, because the government always denies. sometimethey say, "yeah, isis is big threat." isis is gone from afghanistan., i really wanted to know either they're really gone from afghanistan, or they're really here.ba

this evening, sically, a guy came from inside them to take me tomorrow down there, so you're going to go with me. he's very positive, hes don't be scared, nothing will happen. but still, when i go there, i say, "okay, oh god, is is... this is end of my life. just forgi me if i did anything wrong." his team behind, and heads off before dawn with the go-between. ♪ he films the journey into the baghlan province, in thehi fos of the hindu kush mountains. he as to change cars three times, for security reasons. eventuly, he is joined by two armed isis fighters. they arrive at the rendezvous point.

♪ after an hour, figures begin to emerge from the mounta man (speing local language): najib: >> arrator: the isis commander is eager to show off the weapons his men are using, as well as

their close-combat drills. man: >> narrator: he claims that many of the men here are former taliban fighters, and th in the event of a peace deal with the americans, many more taliban will defect to isis. (men cha (men chanting) najib: man:

♪ >> narrator: back in kabul, there's more news. president trump has made a rprise visit to afghanistan. he's announced that the peace talks with the taliban willgu resume in th state of qatar. >> we've been wanting to make a deal, have the taliban, and we're going to stay until such time as we have a deal, or we have total victory. >> seems that peace negotiations are going to be on again, according to what he said. i hope ts time is going to be ppen, some things, because all the people in afghanistan wants peace. >> if they make it, fine. if they don't make it, that's fine. ♪ >> newly released documents raise serious estions about lied to about the progress ofere the war in afghanistan.

>> narrator:he peace talks are about to resume amid revelations that u.s. officials e r yeyes have bn privately conceding they'vst the war. >> for the last 18 years,ac rding to the government reports, senior u.s. officials have been misleading the american public about the war in afghanistan. >> it's a war washington is struggling to finish, and donald trump says peace lies in the hands of the taliban. >> we're here to talk with a taliban representative about the peace negotiations, and we are trying to find out what will happen next. >> narrator: shortly before exclusive interview with thes an taliban's lead negotiator,mu ah baradar. mullah baradar is a very, very big person within the taliban rank. was the co-founder of t taliban, the person who has very, very close to mullah omar, the main leader of the taliban who died some years ago.

he has been in prison for eight years in pakistan and he has been released in 2018. in (spelocal language): >> narrator: najibullah presses him on how the taliban will exercise power if the u.s. leaves afghanistan, d whether they've moderated their hardline practices.

>> narrator: his answer ambiguous. women will have rights, but only according to the taliban interpretation of islamic sharia law. a >> narratother looming question for the taliban is how it will handle isis.

>> narrator: he insists thehe taliban, notovernment, have been leading the fight against isis in afghanistan. ♪

>> narrator: as the peace talks restart, the u.s. has asked the taliban leadership to prove it can control its fighters on the ground by calling a ceasefire. is, meanwhile, is watching, and waiting. on narrator: coming up nex this special edition of frontline... ug angola, how did the president's er become one of the richest women in the world? >> i am looking at theers that have helped her get money out of angola and into the bloodstream of the global financial system. >> angolan authorities he embarked on a very, very

selective witch hunt. >> narrator: "the luanda leaks" begins right now. ♪ >> nrator: paris, september 2019. the internationaconsortium of investigate journalists has gathered together reporters from almost 40 organizations, including "frontline," to collaborate on a new investigation. >> so our first two guests are the people who actually brout us the documents. >> narrator: they've been given a cache of leaked documents by a protect whistleblowers in to africa. the 700,000 files-- own as the luanda leaks-- are all related to the business intereof angolan billionaire isabel dos

santos-- contracts, loan agreements, bank transfers, invoices, emails; documents mapping the complex structure of her business empire. ew york times" investigative reporter michael forsythe is part of the collaboration... >> the story of isabel d santos has been out there for a there have been these reports about potential corruption, this accumulating wealth fro angola. but these documents, i think, really kind of connect the dots .and document a lot of th is one of the world's richests women. she has properties in dubai,on lolisbon; a yacht; and celebrity iends. with interests in banking, oibile phone companies, an she is reported to be worth more than $2 billion. she has always said she's earned it on her own.

driven, so whatevei haves merit achieved there, i think it has been through merit. i've also started working a very long time ago, so... (chuckles)d over two d ago, and the success that i have today is not something that came overnight. >> narrator: but there's anothe. side to her st she's the daughter of jose eduardo dos santos. for 38 yearshe was president of angol under his rule, much of the population lived in eme poverty while the cotry was widely reported to be one of the most corrupt in the world. tom burgis is a reporter who's investigated the dos santos family. (audience applauding) >> a lot of the people around jose eduardo dos santos ha become immensely rich-- family members, generals, senior

politicians, people who run the oil industry. they have all used those sitions for massive self-enrichment at the cost of the ordinary angolan. (man introducing dos santos) >> narrator: in 2017, presidt dos santos stepped down.go the new ann government has now opened a criminal investigation into isabel dosos sant and frozen her assets, saying that she and her husband are responsible for mo than $1 billion in lost state funds. she denies any wrongdoing and says she is being politically persecuted. >> so all of this boils down toe is iwhat she says she is-- self-made billionaire-- or is she the creature of a kleptocratic, corrupt dictatorship? >> nartor: for more than six months, "frontline" and the team of reporters working with the icij have been examining and

verifying the aked documents, investigating how isabel dos santos made her money. the story of her fortune is tied to angola's most precious natural resource-- oil. sonangols the country's state oil company. >> sonangol is the lifeline of angola. over 90 perct of angola's exports come from oil, sonangol. so it's essentially the heart that pumps blood to our vessels. ♪ >> narrator: rafael marquez is o nalist who's been reporting on isabel dos santos for more than a decade. >> essentially the way isabel

dos santos built her fortune was by using her father's position, and by using also sonangol as her cash cownd private bank to finance her activities. >> narrator: in 2006, isabel dos santos and her husband made a crative deal with sonangol. sonangol owned stake in the profitable portuguese energy company galp and agreed to sell them 40 percent of it. the documents reveal that the terms of the deal were hhly favorable to the daughter of the president. the price for the galp share was 75 million euros. but isabel dos santos paid just 11.2 million euros, or 15p percent,ont. the remaining 63 million was

deferred-- in effect, loan from the state oil company.at tom ge, an expert in financial crime, has examined the icij documents. >> so, you look at anyct trann and the first question you should ask yourself is why? why did she get a great dealil from the staompany? was it simply a way of transferring value to the daughter of the president? i think it is impossible to come to any other conclusion than she has benefited from state funds. >> narrator: isabel dos santos's stake in galp is now worth arnd $800 million. she declined to be interviewed by t icij and its partners, but shortly before broadcast she spoke to bbc news report andrew harding and defended the deal. >>rell of those transactions perfectly legal transactions, commercial transactions that were engaged by commercial companies according to the law.

there's absolutely no wrongdoing in any of those transactions. >> narrator: she says sonangol's investment in galp was her idea in the first place, and it's been a windfall for angola too. >> this investment is the hinvestment that in histo generated the most benefit for the national oil company. >> narrator: more than a decade later, dos santos and the new angolan government areighting over the terms of repaying the loan she was extended. but the deal remains emblemati of how she has used her position and puic to amass her fortune. >> it's one of the clearest examples of the interests of the state blurring with her own interests. and that is the opposite of the rrative she wants to put forward about herself. >> narrator:n the years that follow, the documents show how isabel dos santos and her husband set up a network o companies in tax and secrecy havens for their growing wealth.

then they made a major move into another of angola's most (fireworks crackling) dionds. as with the oil deal, they used public money to do so. in 2012, dos santos's husband, sindika dokolo, partnered with the state-run diamond company sodiam. swiss jeweler de grisogono.xury ♪ it was structureas a 50-50 partnership with sodiam. but the documents show that by mid-2013, while sodiam had pd $79.5 million, sindika dokolo's company initially had only put in $4 million, and he'gotten that from state-owned sodiam as a "success fee" for brokering the deal.en

>> so the stat up funding an opportunity for isabedos santos and her husband to make an acquisition from which they obviously will befit. it's a classic example of somebody close to, in this case, e daughter of the president being able to use that relationship to benefitth selves. >> narrator: the documentser reveal a furwist. in order to finance the deal, sodiamad to borrow the money. it got it at nine percentst intererom a bank partly owned by isabel dos santos. and the president himself signed a decree guaranteeing that the government would pay back his daughter's bank if sodiam cldn't. andrew feinstein investigatesco uption cases for a british isvocacy group. >> in effect whaappening here is that the president of a country is guaranteeing a loan to his own daughter's bank in

order for the daughter's husband to gain a very lucrative stake in a swiss-owned jewelry company. >> narrator: the documents also show that the deal gave sindika dokolo control of the company. under his watch, de gr hosted a paid for lavish celebrity parties at the cannes film festival. >> let us not forget that the money being used is monethat belongs to the people of angola. the majority of those people live in abject pover >> narrator: tough his lawyers, sindika dokolo defended the deal and said the parts were a longstanding marketing practice to promote the luxury brand. he also said he went on to invest $115 millioof his own money into the company. for her part, isabel dos santos says she had no role in de

grisogono. >> well, i'm n a shareholder in de grisogono. i've said that many times, and r i'eat that again, i'm not a shareholder in de grisogono. and so any matters on that it would able to answer simply by the simple fact that i'm not a shareholder. >> nartor: but the documents do show she had personal ties to the company. these bank forms list her as an economic beneficiary, and an owner of the holding company that controls de grisogono. ♪ the diamond deal is now at the heart of the angol government's investigation into isab dos santos. the current head of sodiam says the deal has beea disaster for the angolapeople. man (speaking portuguese):

♪ >> okay,nd if there's a way if he's not there, is there anyone i can leave a message with or a voicemail or something like that for him? >> narrator: as part of the icij collaboration, "new york times" reporter michael forsythe has come to portugal's capital lisbon to investigate the roleer amican companies have played in isabel dos santos's ventures. >> i'm looking at the enablers-- basically the inrnational group of very respectable companies, accountants,s, hensultand law firms and banks that have lped her set up companies aund the world to, to facilitate all her transactionsto get money out of angola and into the, the

bloodstream of the global financial system. it's american companies that are legitimizing the rise in wealth, you know, of this person, isabel dos santos, daughter of the long-time president, making her richer and using angolan state money to do it. >> narrator: when sindika dokolo first bought in to de grisogono, it wasn financial trouble. ♪ this letter, and organizational chart, reveal that he hired the u.s. managemt firm boston consulting group to help turn it around. >>e know from the documents edat many banks were... st away from her, the international banks, because s there are veict anti-corruption rules, and they have, you know, lots of compliance officers. t d we see from the emails that they were reluct do business with her, but boston consulting group was not.

why did they agree to work with thiserson, isabel dos santos? ♪ >> narrator: in fact some of the consultants went on to leave bcg and become the jewelry company's top executives. one of them, now based inon lihas agreed to meet forsythe off camera. but it doesn't go we.n >> whetold him that i wanted to talk about de grisogono, the jewelry company, and isabel dos santos, he froze up. he said, "i have a confidentiality agreement.ta i don't like t about that." he was clear that he was quite scared, i thought. and he got up very quickly though, and said, "sorry, i can't ta to you," and left right away. um, well, that's not t best outcome for an interview, obviously. t it did give mehe impression of how sensitive this issue is.

♪ to >> nar back in the united states, forsythe gets an consulting group. from boston they say they only worked with de grisogono for a short te, on three specific projects. >> so, they're downplaying their role. but since then i've had a chance to talk to some of the ex-boston consultingroup people. you know one of the guys i it's called shadowagement",ally that we're going in and kind of pulling the strings i guess gettg this company back in order. >> narras it took steps "to ensure compliance with est with established policies and avoid corruption and other risks." but consulting firms aren't bound by the same strict the political backgrounds ofing their clientand the provenance of their money. >> companies like bcg in this case are providing a veneer of

respectability that makes what's happening acceptable or more acceptable than it might otherwise be.r: >> narracg wasn't the only western company involved in the dos santos business empire. one big accounting firm, pricewaterhousecoopers, has played a majorole. they had an inside view of the de grisogono diamond deal: they were responsle for auditingf the millionsllars going in and out of the company. the documents show how pwc was awarthere was no paperwork for some of that money; and that there were other accounting irregularities. ♪ >> so if i was at pwc, i'd be conducting a pretty thorough dit of what decisions were ma, and in hindsight actually did we make the wrong decision to accept this business and should we have reported what we had been presented with? >> narrator: pwc said it is investigating the "serious and

concerning allegations" and has terminated all work with the dos santos family. pwc's global chairman says employees may be fired. ♪ o in 201 year after the diamond deal, isabel dos santos moved to extend her businessjo empire with a land development project in her home country. as part of the icij collaboration, portueseur jolist micael pereira hasco to angola to investigate the deal. >> so there will be a boulevard here. and beyond the boulevard there will be really beautiful buildings and gardens, luxury residences that are... that were conceived by a company of isabel dos santos together with foreign companies. >> narrar: the angolan

government would award contracts for the project to two companies owned by isabel dos santos. the plans were authorized by her father. these letters, contracts, and emailshow her companies stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars. in her bbc interview, she said the project incluw roads to alleviate chronic traffic in the capital city. >> this is a project that would have made a difference to, toda lubut most of all, this is a solution that we proposed a because it'solution that in rms of cost and return and benefits to the city of luanda and to the people of luanda, it has very high social benefits. >> narrator: but the land, lg the site of other development plans, had people living on it. weeks after the president approved his daughter's plan, the residents were evicted.

(speaking portuguese >> narrator: around 500 families settled on this strip across from their former homes. >> i've never been in-in a place like this. this is shocking. these people live among all this, this garbage. they build their houses whe they could. they live basically between two sewage systems in the open air.

>> narrator: the residents say cholera, tb, and malaria are ri. (people shouting, whistle blowing) ak woman (speg portuguese): >> narrator: fatima and her children live here with four other families.

>> narrator: isabel dos santos and her lawyers say her plan wa designed to avy evictions, using "reclaimed land from the sea." but the documents contain maps that show her development covered the area where the evicted families used to live. the new angolan government would ultimately remove isabel dos santos from the project. the development remains unbuilt. around the same time as the land al, angola's oil industry was in trouble. prices were falling and there were management sues at sonangol. to fix the problems, the president turned to his daughter. her lawyers helped draft a esidential decree establishing a commission to restructure

sonangol. then, one of her offshore companies was hired to dthe work. >> so here is a transaction in which theompany owned by the daughter of the president wins the contract to restructure sonangol, the most important state-owned company in angola. you've got to ask yourself the aiestion, why would sonangol employ a companythrough malta-- whh is an offshore jurisdiction, very opaque, very problematic-- to provide advice d services to it? >> narrator: the documents show that dos sanmpany would be paid 8.5 million eurofor its rk. the company kept a lot of that money, though it subcontracted to consultants like bcg to help with the sonangol restructuring.

through her lawyers, isabel dos saos said the government chose her company because "she is one of very few angola with substantial international business experience." ♪ her involvement in sonangol would soon go much deeper. in june 2016, as the company was being restructured, president dos santos fired sonangol's board and put h daughter in charge. that president dos santos passed a presidtial decree. he, as the supreme law in the land, passes a law to make her the head of sonangol, the state oil company. it is a blatant and azen

move, using his almost total political power to benefit mself and his family. >> narrator: again, isabel dosec >> your father putn that position... >> it wasn't my father, it was the government, but anyway... (chuckling): we can go through that. it was theommission... >> it's the time when your father was president... >> .it was commission of-- i was invited to head sonangol t commission of oil and gas restructuring. i worked for them as a consultant, that then, after i had finished my consultancy work, invited me and said would i consider the position to become sonangol's chairperson. >> nartor: her role as chairperson wouldn't last long. by september 2017, everything t was changing f dos santos family. her father was now out of power, and the new president was launching an anti-corruption acive.

within weeks, hed isabel dos santos as the head of sonangol. the new government would soon open a criminal investigation m inlions ofollars in payments made in her last hours at sonangol. the money was sent to a company here in dubai caed matter business solutions. ♪ the documents show thaer was a consulting company that isabel d santos's long-time business manager helped run, and that it's sole shareholder was a friend named pau oliveira. >> there is clearly a relationship between isabel dosa sant the company we are talking about, and indeed the owner of that company who is a friend of isabel dos santos, so is it a legal relationship no. is there a relationship in the way that most people would consider a relationship to be? absolutely.

>> narrator: matter sent a stream of invoices to sonangol. some had little detail about what the bills were for. this one says "support the chairman in communications"-- 384,000 euros. and this one for "unspecified expenses"-- 472,000 euros. the payment orders bear isabel dos santos's signature. one of them, for $38 million, was onhe day she was ousted. the next day, a total of $57.8 million was withdrawn from one of sonangol's bank accous and sent to matter. th oliveira and dos santos insist matter was an independent anlegitimate firm, not a d santos proxy, that was owed moy fosubstantial work it did for sonangol. soliveira's lawyers say st the invoices when she learned dos santos was being fired.

in her interview with the bbc, dos santos stressed that the payments were to settle outstanding bills. >> all the services rendered under the contract are known services and they we ilivered and rendered, and all the invoices areoices that are connted to services rendered. the contract is a contract that was wl-known to the angolan government authorities. they knew... everybody that worked on the prect, they met wi them on a regular basis. >> we've received copies of these invoices for the 57 million and i wondered if i could show you some of them and ask you to explain, um... >> well, i will not be familiar with the invoices themlves. >> here, fornstance, 472,000 euros, um, and there's no explanation for wh these expenses are... with the...liar >> but you signed off on these. >> well, the way sonangol works... >> and again, if i can... >> this is good that you... >> twoere, almost identical,

for 676, and then again for 676,000. >> yeah. >> and, again, very vague. accounting here. >> are you sure, are you sure that there areo more documents that should be supplied to you and they're probably not in here, because it looks to me... >> there are many more, mere are mae. >> well, that's what i'm saying, that's why it looks to me... >> and the concern is his fits in with the explanation or the allegation from the angolan authoritiethat essentially the funds were being looted at the last minute. >> of course they were not, of course not, that dsn't, that doesn't make any sense. ar >>tor: dos santos left angola as the criminal investigation of her was getting underway. ♪ authorities there say they want her back. ma (speaking portuguese):

>> narrator: in late december, after icij reportersubmitted questions, the angolan government froze the assets of dos santos and her husband. angolan authorities are now going througthe many years of dos saos's deals. they say they are being helped by the u.s., u.k., portugal, and others. according to the new predent, isabel dos santos and sindika dokolo could face prison time. the couple insists that the investigations and leaked documents are all part of a coordinated political attack. >> angolan authories have embarked on a very, very selective witch hunt. a very selective witch hunt

that suits the purpose of saying that there is two or three people that are related to themi , or a family of president dos santos. has chosen this pathinkangola that we all stand a lot to lose. ♪ >> narrator: for many golans, this is a watershed moment. >> isabel dos santos has llions of dollars. it's only a matter of time before the angolan staomes in full force to reclaim what belongs to the angolan people. we need that money to get to a new place. change the way we think about what a governmenis for, what ruling is about, and how to

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