After considering all the African factors Mbeki has concluded that the only way to tackle the regional crisis is by trying above all to persuade the combatants in the Congo and Angola - Mugabe Laurent Kabila Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos and Namibia's Sam Nujoma - that they would gain real economic and political advantages by enforcing the Lusaka II peace accord agreed in Kampala last month...
Vol 41 No 4 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Presidents Robert Mugabe (and his 11 000 or so Zimbabwean troops) José Eduardo dos Santos (and some 5 000 Angolan troops) and Sam Nujoma (around 2 500 Namibian troops) have been the backbone of the war against the rebels supported by Rwanda and Uganda...
The government's military victories have perked up President José Eduardo dos Santos...
That pleased President José Eduardo dos Santos...
President José Eduardo dos Santos's government will benefit from the unambiguously pro-MPLA stance of the three big Western investors in the booming oil sector: the United States France and Britain...
President José Eduardo dos Santos' office is threatening to sue Global Witness for `criminal and civil libel'...
This means convincing President José Eduardo dos Santos's government to untie the web of corruption that keeps most Angolans poor...
ProDev is nominally run by a Syrian businessman named Bhazari a close associate of President José Eduardo dos Santos' daughter Isabel as well as of former prime Minister José França van-Dúnem...
The largest official buying operation is RDR a firm in which President José Eduardo dos Santos' daughter Isabel has a stake with operations partly managed by Noé Baltazar a former head of Endiama...
President José Eduardo dos Santos has 'ceased to embody national unity' he said in an open letter to the MPLA at the end of August...
