CONTINENTAL DRIFT

No out-of-jail card

Angola’s former first son José Filomeno de Sousa dos Santos has been remanded in custody in an embezzlement case involving the theft of $1.5-billion. He had headed Angola’s $5-billion sovereign wealth fund before losing his position after his father, José Eduardo dos Santos, stepped down as president. Dos Santos Jr was charged with fraud in March after he allegedly transferred $500-million of public funds from the National Bank of Angola.

Fifa rules

Sierra Leone is unhappy about a possible Fifa ban following the suspension of two of the country’s top football officials. The football body has accused the government of interfering in the running of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) after the country’s Anticorruption Commission suspended SLFA president Isha Johansen and its secretary general, Christopher Kamara, pending the outcome of a corruption investigation. Minister of Sport Ibrahim Nyelenkeh insists that the government did not ask the two to step down.

In the name of prestige

The first Kenya’s film screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Rafiki, has been unbanned in Kenya for one week. The film has to be screened in local theatres for seven consecutive days to meet entry requirements for the Academy awards. Although the Kenyan Film Classification Board frowned on Rafiki, it dropped its ban so that the film could be eligible for an Oscar.

Refugees’ hero