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...
Vol 43 No 5 | ANGOLA How many UNITAs? 8th March 2002 The most important of the post-Jonas Savimbi factions of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola is the armed wing which was under António Dembo. It...
Vol 43 No 5 | ANGOLA Good news for some 8th March 2002 Jonas Savimbi's death was greeted with joy in Namibia, where the governing South West African People's Organisation has extremely close ties to the Movimento Popular de Libertação de...
Vol 43 No 2 | ANGOLA Russian roulette 25th January 2002 Unexplained debts and secret accounts alarm the IMF and deter investors Before the International Monetary Fund lends money, it needs to know about the recipient's other debts. Angola's government has borrowed huge sums which are not audited or included...
Vol 42 No 24 | ANGOLA Later rather than sooner 7th December 2001 Hopes for peace and for votes are once again put on hold The blip of optimism has gone, the agony will continue. Forget serious efforts to end the guerrilla war and hold elections, at least until late 2003 or 2004....
Vol 42 No 24 | ANGOLA Bitter borders 7th December 2001 Angolan troops have made raids into Zambia and nobody agrees about what is going on. After a bad patch, relations between the neighbours had seemed warmer lately and...
Vol 42 No 20 | ANGOLA Stuck again 12th October 2001 The United States, calling for 'no talks with terrorists', still wants to prod President José Eduardo dos Santos towards talks with Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência...
Vol 42 No 17 | ANGOLA Waiting for the call 31st August 2001 President José Eduardo dos Santos announced on 23 August that he would not be the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola's candidate at the next election. Few...
Vol 42 No 11 | ANGOLA Who blinks first? 1st June 2001 Government and UNITA rebels edge reluctantly towards a ceasefire and new negotiations in one of Africa's longest-running wars Rebel leader Jonas Savimbi has a cruel sense of timing. For 18 months, he has been calling on the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola to start...