Vol 49 No 14 |
- ANGOLA
- ANALYSIS
The ruling party looks set to win again at the parliamentary
elections which are due to be held in September. Strikingly, nearly
one in five Angolans belongs to the governing party, the MPLA.
Nevertheless, voters will expect it to explain why the general
public has not benefited from the vast wealth that is arriving
as Angola takes over from Nigeria as Africa's leading oil producer.
In power since 1992, the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola is at least sure of its ability to deliver peaceful polls. Even the main opposition party (the...
Top of the list of Angola's fat cats is the family of President José Eduardo dos Santos. Its latest visible acquisition, in January, was Channel Two of the...
Angola's coming general elections are followed far beyond its borders. While the country was enmeshed in civil war, oil companies and their governments were the only outsiders who...
In April, Sindika Dokolo, a Congo-Kinshasa-born businessman and husband of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, was made an administrator of Amorim Energia,...
Questions surround the resignation of President José Eduardo dos Santos's confidant, special consultant and billionaire Arkady Gaydamak, on 6 April, as well as the fate of Gaydamak's diplomatic...
Angola's decision to set up its own sovereign wealth fund, as Africa Confidential recently reported (AC Vol 49 No 3), is only part of the picture. Fernando Ulrich,...
Sonangol intends to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange by 2010, according to Chief Executive Manuel Vicente. In February 2006, he mentioned this intention,...
The establishment of an Angolan sovereign wealth fund is generating huge interest, not least because its operations and objectives have so far been shrouded in secrecy. We...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 11 |
- ANGOLA
- JAPAN
Japanese trainers are to help develop the skills of Angolan workers in the diamond industry
As long as it lasts, the diamond boom may help Japanese companies.
They are well placed to take advantage of the decision by state
diamond company Endiama that more than...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 10 |
- ANGOLA
- TANZANIA
- CHINA
Chinese investors are to rescue Tanzania's state-owned airline and rennovate Julius Nyerere International Airport
Talks on a complex three-party investment deal between China and
Angola and the ailing Air Tanzania Company are nearing conclusion, officials have confirmed in Dar es Salaam. The aim...