Vol 51 No 10 | ANGOLA The IMF makes up with Luanda 14th May 2010 Prior to the global financial crisis in 2008, many were questioning the International Monetary Fund’s relevance, especially in African countries which were increasingly turning to the international financial...
Vol 51 No 6 | ANGOLA Sonangol gulps 19th March 2010 Sonangol, Angola’s state-owned oil company, could take a controlling stake in Portugal’s Galp oil company as part of its ambitious overseas acquisition strategy. In late February, Sonangol Chairman...
Vol 51 No 4 | ANGOLA Dos Santos prepares for power, again 19th February 2010 After three decades in power, the President chooses his next team Intending to run for another term in office in 2012, President José Eduardo dos Santos has moved close allies into key ministries. He faces a vote not by...
Vol 51 No 4 | ANGOLA The bid to clean up MPLA Inc 19th February 2010 President José Eduardo dos Santos says he laments the rise of grand corruption in Angola as it undermines the social fabric. If so, some members of his government...
Vol 51 No 2 | ANGOLA Soccer shooting 22nd January 2010 President José Eduardo dos Santos's government is arresting human rights activists and claimed sympathisers of the Frente para a Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda-Forças Armadas de Cabinda (FLEC-FAC)....
Vol 51 No 1 | ANGOLA Football, contracts and then votes 8th January 2010 The President would win an election but won’t hold one, while worrying about the neighbours and the African football cup At the congress of the governing Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) in December, President José Eduardo dos Santos once more postponed the general elections until 2012...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 10 | ANGOLACHINA Luanda's oil lifeline 17th August 2010 Economic relations between Luanda and Beijing are getting even closer as Angola struggles with mounting debts while China becomes more dependent on Angolan oil. In mid-August, Finance Minister Carlos Alberto Lopes...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 | ANGOLATANZANIACHINABRIEFING Choose your poison 20th July 2010 The shadowy joint venture between Angola's state-owned oil company and the nebulous China International Fund has reached a new stumbling block in its three-year-old pursuit of a major stake in Tanzania's...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 5 | ANGOLACHINA Reshuffling Luanda's Beijing connection 15th March 2010 As the President rearranges his government and calls for another crackdown on corruption, Beijing’s friends can take nothing for granted The news that José dos Santos da Silva Ferreira is to head a new super ministry which will oversee Chinese contracts and projects is a strong vote of...
Vol 50 No 22 | ANGOLACONGO-KINSHASA Throwing out the neighbours 6th November 2009 A spree of mutual expulsions disguises long-standing economic disputes The two big neighbours have been busily expelling each others' nationals and the resulting tension hides their disagreements about oil, diamonds and the hoped-for electric power from a...