José Eduardo dos Santos

This week Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos sent a message of support to Kabila against local opponents and incursions by Rwanda or Uganda in the east...

It seems António van Dunem had overreached himself on the credit: President José Eduardo dos Santos sacked him on 9 December...

President José Eduardo dos Santos who has established almost total autonomy from the MPLA will still be the candidate at the next presidential election now set for 2007...

BES and Escom are close to the personal financial advisors of President José Eduardo dos Santos and rival the President's favourite Angolan bank the Banco Africano de Investimentos (BAI) in which Sonangol holds shares...

Angolan tableau Few in the ruling party dare to criticise President José Eduardo dos Santos openly...

Another Commission member is António van Dúnem who is Secretary of the Council of Ministers and one of President José Eduardo dos Santos' trusted political lieutenants...

President José Eduardo dos Santos doesn't want polls to be held before September 2006...

The new French Ambassador to Luanda Guy Azaïs waited six months to present his credentials to President José Eduardo dos Santos...

Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos did not attend; Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was busy in Abuja trying to reconcile Congo-Kinshasa President Joseph Kabila and Rwandan President Paul Kagame...

Yet the government of President José Eduardo dos Santos is failing to use this income productively and there are recurrent allegations of state theft and grand corruption by the regime's senior officials...