Vol 55 No 1 | ANGOLA The MPLA sticks to its course 10th January 2014 Secretive and fearful of change, the ruling circle sees no reason to rock the boat with reforms. New major projects are likely to suffer delay Whether or not the speculation about President José Eduardo dos Santos being in poor health turns out to be correct, 2014 could be the year that his successor is named. His ...
Vol 54 No 24 | ANGOLAPORTUGAL Luanda cows Lisbon 28th November 2013 Portugal appears to have succumbed to Angolan pressure to drop more investigations of top officials in Luanda. Last week, the Portuguese Central Investigation and Criminal Prosecut...
Vol 54 No 23 | ANGOLAPORTUGAL Luanda shouts back at Lisbon 14th November 2013 A government newspaper calls Portugal corrupt and ignorant after it starts an investigation into allies of Dos Santos for financial crimes Reports of criminal investigations in Portugal into Angolan money-laundering have angered President José Eduardo dos Santos. Relations between the two countries were ‘...
Vol 54 No 23 | ANGOLABRAZIL MPLA insider faces charges in Brazil 14th November 2013 Another key bilateral relationship of Angola’s could also come under stress after Interpol issued a Red Notice on the owner of Angolan soccer club Kabuscorp FC, General Bento...
Vol 54 No 22 | ANGOLACONGO-BRAZZAVILLE Lessons from Luanda 31st October 2013 Angola has been flexing its military muscles to remind Congo-Brazzaville exactly who is boss. In a security operation beginning on 13 October, Angolan forces seized 40 Congolese so...
Vol 54 No 15 | ANGOLA The succession question 9th July 2013 Who takes over from President Dos Santos and how is a matter of political urgency for the governing party Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) delegates meet next year for their national conference, where they will face growing calls to find a way to ease out ...
Vol 54 No 15 | ANGOLA The Brazil effect 9th July 2013 The mass protests in Brazil have rattled Luanda’s political elite as speculation grows about the successor to President Dos Santos Angola and Brazil share close political and commercial ties so June's mass protests and clashes in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo resonated loudly in Luanda. On paper, Preside...
Vol 54 No 10 | ANGOLA UNITA’s warning 10th May 2013 ’Angola is sitting on a powder keg’, says Isaías Samakuva, leader of the main opposition party, the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola. He was talking in Brussels ...
Vol 54 No 9 | ANGOLA Debt deal scandal revives 26th April 2013 Campaigners press the Swiss authorities to reopen their investigation into lucrative deals over Angola’s old debts to Russia A group of Angolan anti-corruption campaigners and other civil society activists is trying to get Angola and Switzerland to reopen an investigation into a notorious mid-1990s debt ...
Vol 54 No 9 | ANGOLA The Abalone list 26th April 2013 Elísio de Figueiredo has for some years been Angola’s Ambassador ‘Without Portfolio’ to France and is widely regarded as a key presidential ally and dealmaker.
