![Kenya is one of several countries in Africa facing serious debt issues [File: Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/kenya.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
China plays a key role: its government, banks and companies lent some $143bn to Africa from 2000 to 2017.
Angola
![Sindika Dokolo, art collector and husband of Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, died in Dubai in a diving accident [Twitter]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/EllOaXYWMAYdvNH.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Authorities said there is no criminal suspicion in Sindika Dokolo’s cause of death while free-diving near Dubai.
![Most of the victims were teenagers allegedly shot dead by police and army officers, who either fired at them directly or hit the boys accidentally [File: Osvaldo Silva/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/a4c4509af9b84b648d29c3608ec8fe87_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
At least seven killed as security forces used ‘excessive, unlawful force’ in tackling lockdown breaches, watchdog says.
![Angola's Supreme Court handed a five-year jail sentence to dos Santos, centre, for fraud [Osvaldo Silva/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/e3af0036dea44b62a678be1fa6c3d0dc_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Jose Filomeno dos Santos was accused of embezzling $1.5bn from national sovereign wealth fund he oversaw for five years.
Soldier shoots 17-year-old who was allegedly protesting against a military-led awareness campaign on face-mask usage.
![Angolan authorities seized Isabel dos Santos; accounts late last year over allegations that she steered one billion dollar in state funds to companies in which she held stakes [File Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/e0abb985da6a42d6ac7aff0af3ec3ff4_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The Angolan billionaire says a fabricated passport in her name appears to be signed by long-dead kung-fu star Bruce Lee.
Why is Bernie Sanders getting such a tough ride from US corporate media? Plus, the satirists mocking Angola’s elite.
![Portuguese engineering firm Efacec said in January that Isabel dos Santos would withdraw from the firm's shareholding structure, adding last week that it was operating normally despite the seizure of her bank accounts [Daniel Rodgrigues/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/b26ecb28981d49a4b5aea2fd90aa14a9_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Africa’s richest woman warns that arresting her accounts could destroy value to all stakeholders.
![The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists says Isabel dos Santos, a billionaire and the former chairman of Sonangol Holding-Sociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola EP, is being investigated by Angolan government officials for 'looting hundreds of millions of dollars from the state's oil and diamond-trading companies' [Daniel Rodgrigues/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cffa8002052645ec90fa9d63ccd5620b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, is accused of using US firms to move allegedly ill-gotten money offshore.
Top US diplomat’s visit to Senegal, Angola and Ethiopia taking place amid travel bans and potential military cuts.
![Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos was charged with money laundering and mismanagement during her stewardship of state-owned oil firm Sonangol [Miguel Riopa/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2e94b105c961488f93a124f6054e3dd2_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Isabel dos Santos has been accused of looting state resources worth billions of dollars.
![Rui Pinto (C) gave a hard drive containing the documents to the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) at the end of 2018, his lawyers said [Ferenc Isza/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/93994baa09f74229b94f2b149b6d94a6_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Rui Pinto, awaiting trial in Lisbon, says he leaked files on Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, his lawyers say.
![Isabel dos Santos has been accused of money-laundering in a probe surrounding alleged embezzlement of funds during her time as chairwoman of Angolan oil company Sonangol Holding-Sociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola EP [File: Photographer: Daniel Rodgrigues/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ed8246ddfb59423bade9e55aa785ba34_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Angolan prosecutors are closing in on dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of the country’s former president.
![Isabel dos Santos known as Africa's richest woman, will sell her stake in Portuguese bank Eurobic amid reports of alleged fraud [File: Daniel Rodgrigues/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fe2b6deeab824df9ba5fa74e1e6a54a5_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Angolan prosecutors allege billionaire mismanaged funds when she led Angola’s state oil firm: Portuguese news agency