José Eduardo dos Santos

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 President José Eduardo dos Santos announced record profits for Sonangol of over US$3 billion for 2010...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré who insisted that the AU stick to its position of backing Ouattara as the legitimate winner of November’s elections clashed at the Summit with Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos and South Africa’s Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 52 No 3)...

After President José Eduardo dos Santos these are the three richest men in Angola...

Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos is one of the staunchest supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo along with sundry Israeli and Russian officials...

Leviev’s fortunes in Angola have been tied to his relationship with Russian businessmen and President José Eduardo dos Santos’s daughter Isabel...

President José Eduardo dos Santos has been in power for 32 years without having to face a free or fair election...

Disrupting those flows will be more difficult especially money from his allies in Moscow (Russia’s Lukoil is a key operator) and Luanda from where his friend President José Eduardo dos Santos has offered strong support...

For the first time in his 31 years in power Angola’s President José Eduardo dos Santos gave a State of the Nation address to the National Assembly in Luanda on 15 October...

However the formal communiqué at the end of President Joseph Kabila’s visit to his Angolan opposite number José Eduardo dos Santos on 20 September made the routine declarations of friendship and solidarity...