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Angola Country Report
news from Angola
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Found 121 articles.
- 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 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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