2008 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

Angola suffers from one of the worst overall anti-corruption frameworks in the world. State-run media is decidedly pro-government with serious restrictions over broadcast media limiting an independent press. Conflicts of interest and accountability regulations are completely absent from the executive, legislature, and judicial branches, while "the budget is largely prepared in secrecy by the Ministry of Finance." Conflicts of interest problems extend to state-owned enterprises, where "government ministers and other high-level officials commonly and openly own interests in companies regulated by their respective ministries." A relatively new but independent audit institution may be the lone bright spot, but "the findings and recommendations of the [audit] tribunal are unknown to the public, not discussed in parliamentary debates, and often not implemented by the executive."