{"id":224889,"date":"2026-02-24T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-when-economic-power-becomes-systemic-risk-in-angola\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:51:50","slug":"angola-when-economic-power-becomes-systemic-risk-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-when-economic-power-becomes-systemic-risk-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: When Economic Power Becomes Systemic Risk in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Angola&#8217;s diversification strategy was designed to reduce dependence on oil and build a competitive, broad-based economy. Instead, a growing body of public records suggests that economic power is becoming increasingly concentrated around a small number of politically connected conglomerates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">At the center of this transformation stands the Carrinho Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Over the past four years, the group has expanded from agro-industry into food importation, military logistics and banking, underwritten by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angola&#8217;s diversification strategy was designed to reduce dependence on oil and build a competitive, broad-based economy. Instead, a growing body of public records suggests that economic power is becoming increasingly concentrated around a small number of politically connected conglomerates. At the center of this transformation stands the Carrinho Group. Over the past four years, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,3576,257,7047,9590,254,18497],"class_list":["post-224889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-economic","tag-news","tag-power","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-systemic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}