Vol 43 No 20 | ANGOLAFRANCE Going for Glencore 11th October 2002 Swiss-based oil and commodities trader Glencore has become entangled in France's Angolagate scandal. Paris sources say an arrest warrant has been issued for one of the company's le...
Vol 43 No 12 | ANGOLA Whose peace bonanza? 14th June 2002 The oil and diamond boom enriches the party but doesn't feed the people The view from the presidency at Futungo de Belas is bright. With peace and victory, Angola is on the path to becoming an oil- and gas-fuelled industrial economy to rival Nigeria an...
Vol 43 No 12 | ANGOLA Banking on the donors 14th June 2002 Now the war is over, Angola hopes to hoover up easy money from donors, who pledged up to US$1 billion at a round table conference in 1995 after the signing of the Lusaka peace acco...
Vol 43 No 8 | ANGOLA An edited peace 19th April 2002 Quick moves to a ceasefire; much slower ones on political and economic reforms There are three reasons why the rebels of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola will not go to war again against the Movimento Popular de Liberta&cce...
Vol 43 No 7 | ANGOLA Pax Luanda 5th April 2002 Government and rebels were set to sign a comprehensive ceasefire on 4 April some ten years after a similar deal which saw the two sides merge their armies, fight an election and......
Vol 43 No 5 | ANGOLA Death, not peace 8th March 2002 After four decades of war, the killing of 'O Mais Velho' Jonas Savimbi makes peace possible but not certain The government sent a message of reconciliation. After the death in combat of Jonas Savimbi in late February, President José Eduardo dos Santos said the army was working tow...
Vol 43 No 5 | ANGOLA How many UNITAs? 8th March 2002 The most important of the post-Jonas Savimbi factions of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola is the armed wing which was under António Dembo...
Vol 43 No 5 | ANGOLA Good news for some 8th March 2002 Jonas Savimbi's death was greeted with joy in Namibia, where the governing South West African People's Organisation has extremely close ties to the Movimento Popular de Liberta&cce...
Vol 43 No 2 | ANGOLA Russian roulette 25th January 2002 Unexplained debts and secret accounts alarm the IMF and deter investors Before the International Monetary Fund lends money, it needs to know about the recipient's other debts. Angola's government has borrowed huge sums which are not audited or included...
Vol 42 No 24 | ANGOLA Later rather than sooner 7th December 2001 Hopes for peace and for votes are once again put on hold The blip of optimism has gone, the agony will continue. Forget serious efforts to end the guerrilla war and hold elections, at least until late 2003 or 2004. Angola's oil and gas a...