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The facade sometimes cracks. Angola's state media habitually promote the governing Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) but, for two hours on 12 March, Rádio Nacional de Angola sounded more like the relatively independent Catholic Rádio Ecclésia. The debate was on the state oil company, Sonangol, whose chief, Manuel Vicente, recently announced that it would invest US$50 billion over the next six years, for the 'Angolanisation of the oil industry'....

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Manuel Vicente, Reginaldo da Silva, United States, Pedro Cabral, Isaías Henriques Ngola Samakuva, Portuguese, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, Rádio Nacional de Angola, Rádio Ecclésia, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola

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