This was triggered by the deaths of several German officers and officials who had previously been picked up and escorted by Portuguese military on Angolan territory, dying in the exchange of fire after a series of misunderstandings.

[4] After the end of the GDR in 1990, the case of Amadeu Antonio Kiowa, an Angolan murdered by neo-Nazis in Eberswalde, caused an international outcry.

[5] With the enormous economic development after the end of the Angolan civil war in 2002, German attention for the country then increased again.

Chancellor Angela Merkel was the first German head of state to visit Angola in 2011, and she came there for a second time in February 2020.

[6][1] Some 20 German companies now have their own subsidiaries in Angola, including Bauer, Bosch, Commerzbank, DHL, Siemens, and Volkswagen.

Nando Rafael (* 1984), Narciso Lubasa (* 1989), Joe Vunguidica (* 1990) and Danny da Costa (* 1993) are other German-Angolan football players.