Angola Country Paper: The Regulatory Environment and Monitary & Financial Influences on the Micro-Enterprise Industry

Presented by Margaret Jiri at the Southern Africa Capacity Building Regulatory and Supervisory Workshop. Angola is a founding member of SADC. The country has suffered 40 years of war since launch of the independence struggle in 1961 until the ceasefire which ended the civil war between the Government and UNITA in February 2002. The 27 years since independence have been an era of almost continuous internal conflict. Due to the war, agriculture has stagnated and the industrial infrastructure has largely been destroyed. Angola has shifted from being an agricultural producer of diverse commodities to almost complete dependency on oil and diamonds.