Vol 48 No 7 | ANGOLACONGO-KINSHASA A frontier affair 30th March 2007 Old allies in Luanda and Kinshasa are at odds over their border in diamond country A high-powered Angolan delegation visited Kinshasa on 14 March. It included Foreign Minister João Bernado de Miranda, Interior Minister Leal Monteiro 'Ngongo', Chief-of-Staff General Francisco Furtado, National Police...
Vol 48 No 7 | ANGOLA Oil's new power 30th March 2007 Economy Angola's oil-backed rulers are standing proud on the international scene. In the last three months, Angola has joined the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC); pulled out of...
Vol 48 No 6 | ANGOLA Discontent in the air 16th March 2007 The facade sometimes cracks. Angola's state media habitually promote the governing Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) but, for two hours on 12 March, Rádio Nacional de...
Vol 48 No 5 | ANGOLA Authoritarian alliances 2nd March 2007 Party stalwarts want a centralised dictatorship to develop the country. The government seems to be listening Angolans are waiting for a peace dividend five years after the Forças Armadas Angolanas (FAA) tracked down and killed Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel União Nacional para...
Vol 48 No 5 | ANGOLA Global prisoner 2nd March 2007 The arrest and imprisonment on national security grounds of Sarah Wykes of Global Witness in Angola's Cabinda Province draws attention to the government's clampdown. Global Witness irritates the...
Vol 48 No 2 | ANGOLA Polls postponed 19th January 2007 National elections are set for more delays as President José Eduardo dos Santos' government pushes through a new constitution in the interregnum between legislative and presidential polls.
Vol 47 No 25 | ANGOLA Joining the big league 15th December 2006 As its oil output surges, Angola announces that it is to join OPEC The announcement on 29 November that Angola is to join the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in March came as a surprise - not at the decision but...
Vol 47 No 24 | ANGOLA Voters and protestors start to register 1st December 2006 Luanda saw its biggest demonstration for years in the week before registration, when the radical Partido de Apoio Democrático e Progresso de Angola gathered outside the French Embassy...
Vol 47 No 24 | ANGOLA A plan from the centre 1st December 2006 The President wants both to modernise the economy and to snub outsiders Running the world's fastest growing oil economy gives President José Eduardo dos Santos some autonomy over policy. He wants to sustain record growth rates with Chinese-style centralised state...
Vol 47 No 22 | ANGOLA Economic star, social crisis 3rd November 2006 As Angola's oil output soars towards 2 million barrels a day (b/d) by the end of 2007, it could become the world's fastest growing economy. The doubling of Angola's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth to 31.4% in 2007 from this year's estimated 14.3%, as forecast by the IMF, reflects the 'surge in oil...