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Angola Country Report
news from Angola
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Found 121 articles.
- Vol 50 No 16
- 07/08/2009
Vicente's Portuguese links
Foreign oil companies are looking closely at the links between Sonangol Chairman Manuel Vicente's holdings in the Banco de Investimento Global and the spate of contracts awarded by Angola's state oil company to Portuguese companies. Vicente, company r...
- Vol 50 No 14
- 10/07/2009
Sonangol goes international
The state-owned oil company is expanding and forming new partnerships, but the new focus is gas development, with tax incentives for exploration
- 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
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