Angolan Lawyers challenges legality of president’s appointment of his daughter as chief executive of state oil company.

The Supreme Court last month rejected an application by tvelve human rights lawyers which sought to have ISABEL DOS SANTOS removed as head of Sonangol, which handles the country’s vast oil and gas reserves.
 
President JOSE EDUARDO DOS SANTOS in June 2016 appointed his forty three-year-old billionaire daughter to the post which sparked litigation.