Vol 44 No 4 | ANGOLA Beg, borrow and steal 21st February 2003 At this critical time for peace, nearly a billion dollars is missing from the foreign reserves Angola, a hoped-for oil ally of the United States and with a seat on the United Nations Security Council this year, should be doing well (AC Vol 44...
Vol 44 No 3 | ANGOLA Is Gato going? 7th February 2003 General Paulo Lukamba Gato's announcement that he will not seek nomination as presidential candidate for the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola is at odds with...
Vol 43 No 20 | ANGOLA Neutering UNITA 11th October 2002 President Dos Santos' ruling MPLA is glad of victory in the war against UNITA but resists other kinds of change Eight months after the violent death of Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, the oil-financed élite of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola is neutering his União Nacional para...
Vol 43 No 20 | ANGOLA Clinging to the cash box 11th October 2002 For once, donor money may influence Angola's oil-rich leaders. At present, the country receives humanitarian funds, channeled through the United Nations and collected through a consolidated appeal. For...
Vol 43 No 20 | ANGOLAFRANCE Going for Glencore 11th October 2002 Swiss-based oil and commodities trader Glencore has become entangled in France's Angolagate scandal. Paris sources say an arrest warrant has been issued for one of the company's leading...
Vol 43 No 12 | ANGOLA Whose peace bonanza? 14th June 2002 The oil and diamond boom enriches the party but doesn't feed the people The view from the presidency at Futungo de Belas is bright. With peace and victory, Angola is on the path to becoming an oil- and gas-fuelled industrial economy...
Vol 43 No 12 | ANGOLA Banking on the donors 14th June 2002 Now the war is over, Angola hopes to hoover up easy money from donors, who pledged up to US$1 billion at a round table conference in 1995 after...
Vol 43 No 8 | ANGOLA An edited peace 19th April 2002 Quick moves to a ceasefire; much slower ones on political and economic reforms There are three reasons why the rebels of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola will not go to war again against the Movimento Popular de...
Vol 43 No 7 | ANGOLA Pax Luanda 5th April 2002 Government and rebels were set to sign a comprehensive ceasefire on 4 April some ten years after a similar deal which saw the two sides merge their armies,...
Vol 43 No 5 | ANGOLA Death, not peace 8th March 2002 After four decades of war, the killing of 'O Mais Velho' Jonas Savimbi makes peace possible but not certain The government sent a message of reconciliation. After the death in combat of Jonas Savimbi in late February, President José Eduardo dos Santos said the army was working...