Vol 47 No 25 | ANGOLA Joining the big league 15th December 2006 As its oil output surges, Angola announces that it is to join OPEC The announcement on 29 November that Angola is to join the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in March came as a surprise - not at the decision but...
Vol 47 No 24 | ANGOLA Voters and protestors start to register 1st December 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 24 | ANGOLA A plan from the centre 1st December 2006 The President wants both to modernise the economy and to snub outsiders Running the world's fastest growing oil economy gives President José Eduardo dos Santos some autonomy over policy. He wants to sustain record growth rates with Chinese-style centralised state...
Vol 47 No 22 | ANGOLA Economic star, social crisis 3rd November 2006 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. The doubling of Angola's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth to 31.4% in 2007 from this year's estimated 14.3%, as forecast by the IMF, reflects the 'surge in oil...
Vol 47 No 17 | ANGOLA Cabinda dreaming 25th August 2006 The fight for Cabindan independence is being put to bed by the Luanda regime António Bento Bembe is an unlikely peacemaker. Apparently representing both the rebel Frente de Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda (FLEC) and the umbrella Fórum Cabindês para o Diálogo...
Vol 47 No 14 | ANGOLACHINA Beijing's embrace 7th July 2006 Luanda finds Beijing's courtship flattering, strengthening and, above all, lucrative Angola has become China's biggest oil supplier and its closest African ally. The 24-hour visit of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to Luanda last month cemented the special relationship...
Vol 47 No 14 | ANGOLACHINA New Luanda's gleaming towers 7th July 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 10 | ANGOLA Filling the lanterns 12th May 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 9 | ANGOLA Sick note 28th April 2006 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,...
Vol 47 No 7 | ANGOLA Election budget 31st March 2006 Oil, China and a bid for votes are driving the world's fastest growing economy This week, an International Monetary Fund team is in Luanda to assess Angola's staggering economic boom; the Fund expects gross domestic product to grow by 27.6 per cent...
Vol 47 No 6 | ANGOLA Divided on debt 17th March 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 5 | ANGOLA Adeus espião 3rd March 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 4 | ANGOLA Ten per cent 17th February 2006 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...
Vol 47 No 2 | ANGOLA Poll postponed 20th January 2006 Lengthy preparations for national elections mean no vote this year President José Eduardo dos Santos was typically circumspect in his New Year address, when he announced that he wanted the Comissão Nacional Eleitoral (CNE) to start electoral registration...