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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 41 No 21
  •  27th October 2000

Going straight - again

Yet another economic reform programme is riding on the oil boom

  • Vol 41 No 18
  •  15th September 2000

Social oil

Government officials unofficially promise to spend at least US$16 million of new oil money on social projects. This may be a first tangible sign of the state oil company Sonangol's Social Bonus Fund, worth many tens of millions of dollars supposedly earma...

  • Vol 41 No 16
  •  4th August 2000

War against peace

The peace movement is gaining support but not from the politicians

  • Vol 41 No 9
  •  28th April 2000

Gems and guns

Paris-based arms trader Arkady Gaydamek has bought 15 per cent of Lev Leviev's Africa-Israel company as part of arrangements to settle some of Angola's military debt. The holding will also tie Russian and Angolan diamond interests more closely together.

  • Vol 41 No 6
  •  17th March 2000

Name and shame

The United Nations' latest exercise in naming and shaming sanctions-busters may see the international isolation of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré and Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma.

  • Vol 41 No 5
  •  3rd March 2000

Cleaning diamonds

New controls are meant to enrich the government and impoverish its enemies

  • Vol 41 No 4
  •  18th February 2000

Phone operators

Launched in Lisbon, the Commission for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in Angola is the latest diplomatic device of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola. It is led by UNITA's Representative in Italy, Adalberto da Costa. C...

  • Vol 41 No 2
  •  21st January 2000

Not yet endgame

Western support for the MPLA and its war against UNITA is running at an all-time high

  • Vol 41 No 2
  •  21st January 2000

'Pre-humanitarian' surveillance

Senior Angolan officers say their military intelligence has been much improved by foreign 'commercial agencies'. These officers are far too discreet to say if these commercial agencies are running covert military aid programmes for Western governments. Ye...

  • Vol 40 No 25
  •  17th December 1999

Readjusted

The loss of six zeros from the kwanza reajustado this month will sharply reduce the number of millionaires in Angola.

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