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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 49 No 21
  •  17th October 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
  •  19th September 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
  •  19th September 2008

The Angolagate trial

The saga comes to a head in a delicate moment for Franco-Angolan relations

  • Vol 49 No 19
  •  19th September 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
  •  5th September 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
  •  5th September 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 after th...

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 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, issued...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 2008

Jam-packed

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

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 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
  •  4th July 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...

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