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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 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

Closing the laundries

Angola is considering retaliating against United States' companies and the US Embassy in Luanda over the Bank of America's closure of its Washington Embassy accounts, we hear. It is insisting that the US Department of State solve the problem. More deta...

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

Daylight on Dos Santos

The new constitution offers the President another twelve years in power but breaking with tradition, he is now actively campaigning for election

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

At stake: oil, migrants and gemstones

Behind the obligatory shows of unity between the governments of Angola and Congo-Kinshasa lurk serious disagreements over the frontiers dividing the oil fields straddling the two countries, diamond concessions and treatment of cross-border migrants. Howev...

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

Boom-bust all over again

China is offering another mega-loan and oil prices are rising again but Luanda’s short-term finances are fraught

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

The IMF makes up with Luanda

Prior to the global financial crisis in 2008, many were questioning the International Monetary Fund’s relevance, especially in African countries which were increasingly turning to the international financial markets to raise funds. For those which secured...

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

Sonangol gulps

Sonangol, Angola’s state-owned oil company, could take a controlling stake in Portugal’s Galp oil company as part of its ambitious overseas acquisition strategy. In late February, Sonangol Chairman Manuel Vicente said there was a ‘possibility’ of Sonangol...

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

Dos Santos prepares for power, again

After three decades in power, the President chooses his next team

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

The bid to clean up MPLA Inc.

President José Eduardo dos Santos says he laments the rise of grand corruption in Angola as it undermines the social fabric. If so, some members of his government may be in trouble. Any serious anti-corruption campaign must tackle key institutions, includ...

  • Vol 51 No 2
  •  22nd January 2010

Soccer shooting

President José Eduardo dos Santos's government is arresting human rights activists and claimed sympathisers of the Frente para a Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda-Forças Armadas de Cabinda (FLEC-FAC). This comes after gunmen attacked a bus, on 8 January, w...

  • Vol 51 No 1
  •  8th January 2010

Football, contracts and then votes

The President would win an election but won’t hold one, while worrying about the neighbours and the African football cup

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