Vol 52 No 15 | ANGOLACONGO-KINSHASA Bad fences, bad neighbours 22nd July 2011 Disputes over politics, oil and diamonds are dividing the two neighbouring governments Relations between Luanda and Kinshasa could deteriorate sharply after a series of disputes. Angolan border police expelled about 15,000 Congolese in April and May after rounding th...
Vol 52 No 15 | ANGOLA Media makeover 22nd July 2011 Luanda’s secretive government has set up a task force to overhaul its communications strategy before next year’s parliamentary elections. The grandly titled Grupo de Revitalização ...
Vol 52 No 14 | ANGOLACONGO-KINSHASA Cabinda man arrested 8th July 2011 The latest twist in the long dispute between Angola and Congo-Kinshasa came with the arrest in Kinshasa of Cabindan human rights activist Agostinho Chicaia in late June. Tension ha...
Vol 52 No 10 | ANGOLA Why the Arab Spring worries Luanda 13th May 2011 After 32 years in power, President Dos Santos presides over a fast growing economy which leaves most of his compatriots in dire poverty The buzz word is ‘opacity’. Elections are due by the end of 2012 but no one is certain who is standing. Angola has one of the strongest economies in Africa but the beneficiaries of...
Vol 52 No 10 | ANGOLA Succession discussions 13th May 2011 Taboo for years, the question of who will succeed President José Eduardo dos Santos has finally come into the open. The Spokesman for the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de ...
Vol 52 No 8 | ANGOLAUNITED STATES Fixing finances 15th April 2011 A peaceful end to Luanda’s diplomatic dispute with the United States is in sight. US banks had closed Luanda’s bank accounts and Angola retaliated by detaining a ship from the USA ...
Vol 52 No 7 | ANGOLAUNITED STATES School meals and bullets 1st April 2011 The Angolan government detained the United States-flagged Maersk Constellation container ship at the port of Lobito between 28 February and 17 March. This was in retaliation for th...
Vol 52 No 6 | ANGOLA Defying the democracy wave 18th March 2011 The ruling party dismisses attempts by oppositionists to follow their North African counterparts The opposition’s attempts to bring the spirit of North Africa’s democracy wave failed to bring the masses on to the streets of Luanda but still worried a government surrounded by s...
Vol 52 No 5 | ANGOLA Oil state on the record 4th March 2011 On 24 February in Luanda, Manuel Vicente, head of the highly secretive state-owned oil company Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola and a possible successor to Presiden...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 | ANGOLACHINASINGAPOREAFRICA China Sonangol is open for business 5th October 2011 Transparency has not been a major feature of China Sonangol’s and China International Fund’s activities in Africa, but one of the investment vehicles is now embarking on a huma...