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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 43 No 21
  •  25th October 2002

Trouble in oil

A symbol of regional cooperation, the Nigeria-São Tomé e Príncipe Joint Development Zone (JDZ), launched only in January, looks close to collapse.

  • Vol 43 No 14
  •  12th July 2002

Murky waters

President Fradique de Menezes must perform a tricky balancing act ­ developing the oil sector under transparency rules which donors insist on and keeping his big Nigerian neighbours happy (AC Vol 43 No 3).

  • Vol 43 No 3
  •  8th February 2002

Family fiefs

With parliamentary elections due next month and expectations of an oil boom, a long-simmering political feud finally exploded on 4 February with the resignation of Patrice Emery Trovoada, the 30-something Foreign Minister, son of the former President, Mig...

  • Vol 42 No 1
  •  12th January 2001

Big brother

Negotiators from giant Nigeria and tiny São Tomé e Príncipe hope to conclude a landmark agreement to settle a border dispute at talks due to begin in São Tomé on 25 January. The dispute centres on an undemarcated maritim...

  • Vol 39 No 21
  •  23rd October 1998

Call the lawyers

In a deal with São Tomé Petroleum, America's Mobil has bought information rights to all 22 of the blocks on offer. The most promising strip of sea-bed lies along the disputed boundaries where Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and São Tomé all claim rights.

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