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 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...

  • Vol 47 No 10
  • 12/05/2006

Filling the lanterns

The auction for new acreage in Angola's rich offshore oilfields, which began in Luanda on 9 May, will increase China's stake in Angola's oil and gas industry. China already takes 13 per cent of its imported oil from Angola, which yields about 1.4 million ...

  • Vol 47 No 9
  • 28/04/2006

Sick note

Luanda gossip says President José Eduardo dos Santos, 64, is gravely ill after a heart attack in Brazil. The presidential spokesman, Victor Carvalho, said Dos Santos was fit, on holiday and due to come home next week.

  • Vol 47 No 7
  • 31/03/2006

Election budget

Oil, China and a bid for votes are driving the world's fastest growing economy

  • Vol 47 No 6
  • 17/03/2006

Divided on debt

Western creditors are divided over negotiating strategy on the rescheduling of Luanda's official debts to the Paris Club, which make up about half of its US$9.7 billion foreign debt.

  • Vol 47 No 5
  • 03/03/2006

Adeus espião

The sacking of intelligence chief General Fernando Garcia Miala by President José Eduardo dos Santos late last month points to new tensions in the ruling elite over the spoils of the post-war oil boom.

  • Vol 47 No 4
  • 17/02/2006

Ten per cent

No formal discussion has been held with the Paris Club debtors, who demand that Angola enter into a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility lending scheme with the Fund before entering into discussion of debt repayment. The government first needs to agre...

  • Vol 47 No 2
  • 20/01/2006

Poll postponed

Lengthy preparations for national elections mean no vote this year

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