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Angola Country Report
news from Angola
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Found 116 articles.
- Vol 51 No 2
- 22/01/2010
Soccer shooting
President José Eduardo dos Santos's government is arresting human rights activists and claimed sympathisers of the Frente para a Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda-Forças Armadas de Cabinda (FLEC-FAC). This comes after gunmen attacked a bus, on 8 Januar...
- Vol 51 No 1
- 08/01/2010
Football, contracts and then votes
The President would win an election but won’t hold one, while worrying about the neighbours and the African football cup
- Vol 50 No 22
- 06/11/2009
Throwing out the neighbours
A spree of mutual expulsions disguises long-standing economic disputes
- Vol 50 No 21
- 23/10/2009
Costly payment delays
On 29 September, the International Monetary Fund loaned Angola US$890 million instead of the $2 billion Luanda had asked for. The government says that the country has reached the turning point after the economic crisis, but business is still cautious, not...
- Vol 50 No 19
- 25/09/2009
A twist in the Thales
French defence company Thales has won US$150 million of business in Angola in partnership with Manuel Vicente, Chairman and Chief Executive of state oil company Sonangol, and Miguel da Costa, Angola's Ambassador in Paris. Angolan law bars the manager ...
- Vol 50 No 16
- 07/08/2009
Vicente's Portuguese links
Foreign oil companies are looking closely at the links between Sonangol Chairman Manuel Vicente's holdings in the Banco de Investimento Global and the spate of contracts awarded by Angola's state oil company to Portuguese companies. Vicente, company r...
- Vol 50 No 14
- 10/07/2009
Sonangol goes international
The state-owned oil company is expanding and forming new partnerships, but the new focus is gas development, with tax incentives for exploration
- Vol 50 No 12
- 12/06/2009
Jobs and votes
President Dos Santos is certain of victory, whether the postponed elections are held this year or next
- Vol 50 No 11
- 29/05/2009
The cement boom
In both Angola and Congo-Kinshasa, public works produce surprising profits for well-connected cement producers, but an oil-fired building boom requires a lot of cement. Angola's Minister of Public Works, General Francisco Higino Lopes Carneiro, said in...
- Vol 50 No 9
- 01/05/2009
An offshore imbroglio
The two countries set up a joint commission to resolve long-standing border rows
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