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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 47 No 24
  •  1st December 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 Pari...

  • Vol 47 No 24
  •  1st December 2006

A plan from the centre

The President wants both to modernise the economy and to snub outsiders

  • Vol 47 No 22
  •  3rd November 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
  •  25th August 2006

Cabinda dreaming

The fight for Cabindan independence is being put to bed by the Luanda regime

  • Vol 47 No 14
  •  7th July 2006

Beijing's embrace

Luanda finds Beijing's courtship flattering, strengthening and, above all, lucrative

  • Vol 47 No 14
  •  7th July 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 country'...

  • Vol 47 No 10
  •  12th May 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
  •  28th April 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
  •  31st March 2006

Election budget

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

  • Vol 47 No 6
  •  17th March 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.

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