The Angolan genet inhabits open miombo woodland interspersed with savanna. A 2007–2012 dry-season survey in western Tanzania recorded it at night with camera traps and night transects.
Its long, slender body has a gray to reddish-gray coat with near-symmetrical dark spots. A dark stripe runs along the back, while the underside is paler and unspotted.
In central Angola’s Luando Strict Nature Reserve, the genet was recorded on an open plain with rhizomatous Cryptosepalum curtisiorum and termite mounds. A 2007–2012 dry-season survey in western Tanzania recorded it at night at three sites in Mlele Beekeeping Zone and four in northern Rukwa, using camera traps and night transects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.