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São Tomé & Príncipe
Population: 0.2 mn.
GDP: 0.2 bn.
Debt: 0.2 bn.
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Newly re-elected President Manuel Pinto da Costa will ask favours of old revolutionary comrades in Angola's MPLA as fiscal problems accumulate. Progress on the Fernão Dias deep water port will remain sluggish.

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  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Dragons in Eden

Príncipe wants a tourist bonanza and fears that São Tomé may try to obstruct it

  • Vol 52 No 17
  •  26th August 2011

Pinto da Costa back in office

Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada will have to find a way to deal with a President freed from party loyalties

  • Vol 52 No 8
  •  15th April 2011

The candidates line up

An official probe into a corrupt oil deal with Nigerian companies is worrying the political class and could upset calculations in the coming elections

  • Vol 47 No 7
  •  31st March 2006

Enter kingmakers

The results of the 26 March elections will fuel concern among neighbouring countries. The coalition led by the Movimento Democrático das Forças da Mudança (MDFM), nominally loyal to President Fradique de Menezes, appears set to emerge...

  • Vol 47 No 5
  •  3rd March 2006

Rich pickings

Expectations of an imminent oil boom may dominate campaigning for the 26 March parliamentary elections. It is five years since São Tomé signed a deal with Nigeria to establish a Joint Development Zone along their undemarcated maritime bounda...

  • Vol 46 No 12
  •  10th June 2005

Blood over oil

Political mayhem follows the latest oil block awards in the Joint Development Zone

  • Vol 45 No 20
  •  8th October 2004

Democracy in action

The appointment of Damião Vaz d'Almeida as Premier on 18 September marks the impoverished archipelago's sixth change of government in three years. It also calls a halt, at least temporarily, to the career of Maria das Neves.

  • Vol 45 No 3
  •  4th February 2004

Gems to oil

Claims by Diamondworks, a South African-based, Canadian-registered company with a colourful history in mining and security (AC Vol 44 No 15), to have secured oil trading rights in São Tomé e Príncipe are stirring a political storm. It...

  • Vol 44 No 15
  •  25th July 2003

Desperados

The latest coup attempt in São Tomé e Príncipe, which only temporarily toppled President Fradique de Menezes (who was in Nigeria when it happened on 16 July) and the government of Prime Minister Maria das Neves, aroused more than the ...

  • Vol 44 No 2
  •  24th January 2003

Fradique's new front

A newcomer to oil finds that old deals with foreign friends gum up the works

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