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Angola
Population: 19 mn.
GDP: 82.5 bn.
Debt: 14.2 bn.
Overview:

A general election is due in the last quarter. President José Eduardo dos Santos will keep everyone guessing about his succession, probably until after the election. Infrastructure investment is a priority; investors respond as fiscal management improves.

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  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Marques takes them on

A crusading journalist has launched a criminal complaint against the President’s allies, accusing them of grand corruption

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Cobalt's compulsory partners

In its annual disclosures (also known as the 10-K Form) to the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York on 31 December 2010, United States-registered Cobalt reported that it had been ‘assigned’ Nazaki Oil & Gaz and Alper Oil as partners by the A...

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Cutting rivalries

The coming battle between two gemstone plutocrats in London’s High Court could embarrass Angola’s secretive diamond marketing organisation, Angola Selling Corporation (Ascorp). Uzbekistan-born Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev, who has major interests in...

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Opposition picks its champions

Isaías Samakuva looks certain to be re-elected head of UNITA while the other parties prepare for the polls

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

MPLA curbs the media

The ruling party appears anxious to restrict free speech and ensure positive coverage in the lead up to the elections

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

Banks strike oil

On 29 November, Angola enacted a law forcing foreign oil companies to use the local banking system for their financial transactions, rather than hold their accounts offshore.

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

Dos Santos calls elections

Now the longest-serving President in Africa, Dos Santos tries to face down a wave of young protestors

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

The succession players

The barons of the governing Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola are divided over the succession. President José Eduardo dos Santos stands aloof from the jockeying for position but in reality exercises a veto over the choice of his successor.

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

The past is another country

More is emerging about the history of bad blood between the two countries and Luanda’s former fondness for Gbagbo

  • Vol 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

New leaf

When Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited Luanda in September, Angola asked her to help mend fences with Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO), say Abidjan sources. Angolan support for Laurent Gbagbo had angered ADO. Evidence has e...

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