Angola
| Population: | 17.0 million |
| GNI: | $43600 million |
| Debt: | $8400 million |
| Overview: | After a crushing victory in legislative elections in 2008, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the MPLA are assured of an easy win in the first post-war presidential elections which are due in September. |
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- 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
- Vol 50 No 3
- 06/02/2009
Oil ballot
A rapidly deteriorating economy could push President José Eduardo dos Santos to delay this year's presidential election until 2010. Oil production cuts, demanded by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, combined with oil prices falling from...
- Vol 49 No 23
- 14/11/2008
Anonymous commerce
Suspicion hangs over Norway's oil major Statoil Hydro after an internal audit published last month flagged as suspicious a joint venture with a mystery Angolan company, signed in September 2006. Angola's state oil company Sonangol operates offshore Blo...
- Vol 49 No 21
- 17/10/2008
Sweet FA
England’s Football Association (FA) may be interested in the links between Alexandre Gaydamak, the declared owner of Portsmouth Football Club, and arms-dealing companies that have emerged in the ‘Angolagate’ trial in Paris (AC Vol 49 No 19). ‘Sacha’ Gayda...
- Vol 49 No 19
- 19/09/2008
Stand and deliver
The election has reinforced the MPLA's dominance and emboldened its leaders to promise an economic revolution
- Vol 49 No 19
- 19/09/2008
The Angolagate trial
The saga comes to a head in a delicate moment for Franco-Angolan relations
- Vol 49 No 19
- 19/09/2008
Concrete overcoats
Contractors in Luanda are gossiping about who might benefit from the privatisation of Angola’s state-owned cement company, Encime, as the construction business booms.
- Vol 49 No 18
- 05/09/2008
Elections at last
The MPLA will retain its dominance in the first elections since the end of the civil war but a new generation of politicians will enter parliament
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