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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news from Angola

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  • Vol 48 No 7
  • 30/03/2007

A frontier affair

Old allies in Luanda and Kinshasa are at odds over their border in diamond country

  • Vol 48 No 7
  • 30/03/2007

Oil's new power

Economy

  • Vol 48 No 6
  • 16/03/2007

Discontent in the air

The facade sometimes cracks. Angola's state media habitually promote the governing Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) but, for two hours on 12 March, Rádio Nacional de Angola sounded more like the relatively independe...

  • Vol 48 No 5
  • 02/03/2007

Authoritarian alliances

Party stalwarts want a centralised dictatorship to develop the country. The government seems to be listening

  • Vol 48 No 5
  • 02/03/2007

Global prisoner

The arrest and imprisonment on national security grounds of Sarah Wykes of Global Witness in Angola's Cabinda Province draws attention to the government's clampdown. Global Witness irritates the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de ...

  • Vol 48 No 2
  • 19/01/2007

Polls postponed

National elections are set for more delays as President José Eduardo dos Santos' government pushes through a new constitution in the interregnum between legislative and presidential polls.

  • Vol 47 No 25
  • 15/12/2006

Joining the big league

As its oil output surges, Angola announces that it is to join OPEC

  • Vol 47 No 24
  • 01/12/2006

Voters and protestors start to register

Luanda saw its biggest demonstration for years in the week before registration, when the radical Partido de Apoio Democrático e Progresso de Angola gathered outside the French Embassy demanding the return of state funds stolen and deposited in Par...

  • Vol 47 No 24
  • 01/12/2006

A plan from the centre

The President wants both to modernise the economy and to snub outsiders

  • Vol 47 No 22
  • 03/11/2006

Economic star, social crisis

As Angola's oil output soars towards 2 million barrels a day (b/d) by the end of 2007, it could become the world's fastest growing economy.

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