Angola: Could Isabel dos Santos make a comeback?
20 January 2021 |
7:00 am
The billionaire daughter of Angola's ex-president was considered the richest woman in Africa. But the Luanda Leaks scandal brought Isabel dos Santos' house of cards crashing down a year ago.
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