U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his latest Africa stop on Monday praised Angola's president for his actions against corruption, saying it would help attract investment.
"This country has been held hostage to that corruption for far too long," Pompeo told reporters. "This reform agenda that the president put in place has to stick" and more investment will follow, he said.
President Joao Lourenco since taking office in 2017 has acted even against family members of former longtime leader Eduardo dos Santos, including his daughter Isabel, reputedly Africa's richest woman. A recent investigation by a global consortium of journalists led to allegations of widespread mismanagement of state funds, which she has denied.
