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.

Angola Country Report



news from Angola

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  • 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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