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Angola Country Report
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Found 118 articles.
- 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.
- Vol 47 No 17
- 25/08/2006
Cabinda dreaming
The fight for Cabindan independence is being put to bed by the Luanda regime
- Vol 47 No 14
- 07/07/2006
Beijing's embrace
Luanda finds Beijing's courtship flattering, strengthening and, above all, lucrative
- Vol 47 No 14
- 07/07/2006
New Luanda's gleaming towers
Angola is planning the biggest urban project ever attempted in Africa. A mega-city south of Luanda, even larger than Brazil's inland capital of Brasilia, is to house four million people from the overcrowded capital, to which more than half of the count...
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