Angola

Angola

Population: 18.5 million
GDP: $69700 million
Debt: $12.2% of GDP
Overview:

President José Eduardo dos Santos has delayed presidential elections until atleast 2012 while his ruling MPLA crafts a new constitution and waits for new oil fields to come on stream and fund more reconstruction projects.

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  • Vol 49 No 19
  • 19/09/2008

Concrete overcoats

Contractors in Luanda are gossiping about who might benefit from the privatisation of Angola’s state-owned cement company, Encime, as the construction business booms.

  • Vol 49 No 18
  • 05/09/2008

Elections at last

The MPLA will retain its dominance in the first elections since the end of the civil war but a new generation of politicians will enter parliament

  • Vol 49 No 18
  • 05/09/2008

Campaign coffers

The election funds of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola dwarf those of its rivals. Some say the campaign has been so peaceful partly because the smaller opposition groups are so poor. Not until 8 August, four days afte...

  • Vol 49 No 18
  • 05/09/2008

Muzzling the media

A blot on the generally calm parliamentary election campaign was the six-month ban on Rádio Despertar, the voice of the main opposition party, the União para a Independência Total de Angola . The justification given for the ban, iss...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  • 01/08/2008

Jam-packed

Oil-fired growth is uncomfortable, and benefits only a few

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

Radio Silence

A six-month ban on broadcasts by Radio Despertar, the voice of the opposition União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, was imposed on 8 July by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

One party rule

The ruling party looks set to win again at the parliamentary elections which are due to be held in September. Strikingly, nearly one in five Angolans belongs to the governing party, the MPLA. Nevertheless, voters will expect it to explain why the gener...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Daughters and generals

Top of the list of Angola's fat cats is the family of President José Eduardo dos Santos. Its latest visible acquisition, in January, was Channel Two of the public television service Televisão Pública de Angola (TPA), which should co...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Friends old and new

Angola's coming general elections are followed far beyond its borders. While the country was enmeshed in civil war, oil companies and their governments were the only outsiders who needed to pay much attention. Now it is rich, (fairly) stable and well p...

  • Vol 49 No 12
  • 06/06/2008

A family business

In April, Sindika Dokolo, a Congo-Kinshasa-born businessman and husband of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, was made an administrator of Amorim Energia, registered in the Netherlands and part of Portugal’s Amorim g...

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