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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 43 No 12
  •  14th June 2002

Whose peace bonanza?

The oil and diamond boom enriches the party but doesn't feed the people

  • Vol 43 No 12
  •  14th June 2002

Banking on the donors

Now the war is over, Angola hopes to hoover up easy money from donors, who pledged up to US$1 billion at a round table conference in 1995 after the signing of the Lusaka peace accords (which then failed). Angola hopes to organise a donor conference in Oct...

  • Vol 43 No 8
  •  19th April 2002

An edited peace

Quick moves to a ceasefire; much slower ones on political and economic reforms

  • Vol 43 No 7
  •  5th April 2002

Pax Luanda

Government and rebels were set to sign a comprehensive ceasefire on 4 April some ten years after a similar deal which saw the two sides merge their armies, fight an election and... then return to the battlefield after Jonas Savimbi refused to accept the r...

  • Vol 43 No 5
  •  8th March 2002

Death, not peace

After four decades of war, the killing of 'O Mais Velho' Jonas Savimbi makes peace possible but not certain

  • Vol 43 No 5
  •  8th March 2002

How many UNITAs?

The most important of the post-Jonas Savimbi factions of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola is the armed wing which was under António Dembo. It is not clear whether a unified command has yet crystallised but import...

  • Vol 43 No 5
  •  8th March 2002

Good news for some

Jonas Savimbi's death was greeted with joy in Namibia, where the governing South West African People's Organisation has extremely close ties to the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola government. A ceasefire and an eventual resolution ...

  • Vol 43 No 2
  •  25th January 2002

Russian roulette

Unexplained debts and secret accounts alarm the IMF and deter investors

  • Vol 42 No 24
  •  7th December 2001

Later rather than sooner

Hopes for peace and for votes are once again put on hold

  • Vol 42 No 24
  •  7th December 2001

Bitter borders

Angolan troops have made raids into Zambia and nobody agrees about what is going on. After a bad patch, relations between the neighbours had seemed warmer lately and Presidents José Eduardo dos Santos and Frederick Chiluba had exchanged visits. Some guess...

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