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Angola
Population: 19 mn.
GDP: 82.5 bn.
Debt: 14.2 bn.
Overview:

A general election is due in the last quarter. President José Eduardo dos Santos will keep everyone guessing about his succession, probably until after the election. Infrastructure investment is a priority; investors respond as fiscal management improves.

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  • Vol 48 No 12
  •  8th June 2007

Eat the document

Sensational accusations are flying between Pretoria and Luanda as South Africa's presidential race heats up, with frontrunners Jacob Zuma and Tokyo Sexwale both accused of interfering in Angolan politics.

  • Vol 48 No 10
  •  11th May 2007

Exit Arkady

A quarrel over business spoils seems to lie behind the hasty departure of Russo-Israeli businessman Arkady Gaydamak from Luanda late last month.

  • Vol 48 No 8
  •  13th April 2007

Going nuclear

A curious article published by the state-owned daily Jornal de Angola in February seems to have escaped attention: a declaration by Science and Technology Minister João Baptista Ngandagina that it might be a good idea for Angola to consider the use...

  • Vol 48 No 7
  •  30th March 2007

A frontier affair

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

  • Vol 48 No 7
  •  30th March 2007

Oil's new power

Economy

  • Vol 48 No 6
  •  16th March 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 independent ...

  • Vol 48 No 5
  •  2nd March 2007

Authoritarian alliances

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

  • Vol 48 No 5
  •  2nd March 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 Ango...

  • Vol 48 No 2
  •  19th January 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
  •  15th December 2006

Joining the big league

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

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