Angola voids telecoms tender, orders re-run

LUANDA: Angola’s President Joao Lourenco annulled the tender for the country’s fourth telecoms operating license on Thursday and ordered it to be re-run to ensure “a clean and transparent process,” his office said.

The move comes less than a week after a little known Angolan company, Telstar Telecomunicacoes, won the tender which had been announced shortly after Lourenco’s inauguration in 2017, and heralded then as part of an opening up of one of Africa’s most closed economies.

A statement from the president’s office said the winning bid had not met all the terms of the tender.