José Eduardo dos Santos

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 no-confidence by President José Eduardo dos Santos in the former head of the Gabinete de Reconstrução Nacional General Helder van Kopelilpa...

His companies will operate the casino in Luanda's soon-to-be-completed Hotel Intercontinental with Isabel dos Santos daughter of Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos as partner...

Playing the role of intermediary with the Hong Kong and Singapore-based companies allows President José Eduardo dos Santos and heads of parastatals like Sonangol’s Manuel Vicente to build up greater political and diplomatic capital...

President José Eduardo dos Santos stayed away from the 24 October summit of the regional body the Communauté Economique des Etats d'Afrique Centrale in Kinshasa...

President José Eduardo dos Santos's government which called for the trial to be terminated because it violated Angolan sovereignty looks unlikely to act strongly against French interests: Total is investing $10 billion in Angola's oil industry and last year Sarkozy paid a business-boosting state visit to Luanda ahead of the trial...

Even Mugabe's older comrades such as Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos are tiring of the continuing crises in Zimbabwe and their negative effects on the region...

Joseph Kabila became President of Congo-Kinshasa at the age of 35 President José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola first took office when he was 37...

The deal had been agreed by the Council of Ministers with the blessing of President José Eduardo dos Santos...

The new African allies In May 2008 Sarkozy visited Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos with representatives of Total Air France Castel Thales European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) Bolloré and Société Générale; a month later a treaty followed on reciprocal investment protection...

Fêting Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Luanda last month President José Eduardo dos Santos and his colleagues from Sonangol played off the Muscovite former backers of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) against the Beijing-based former backers of late rebel leader Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA)...