![The skyline of central Luanda, Angola, May 4, 2014 (AP photo by Saul Loeb).](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/l_angola_05202016_1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
Oil-rich Angola is enduring serious hardship with the slump in global energy prices, and there is a sense of things being in a state of flux in a country deeply dependent on petrodollars over the past decade. Throwing major political uncertainty into the mix, in March, long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos announced his intention to step down and retire from active politics in 2018, which would effectively end a four-decade-long tenure as head of state. Whether dos Santos follows through with his pledge remains to be seen; he made a similar announcement in 2001, but then reneged. The context […]