José Eduardo dos Santos

At the most recent meeting of the Southern African Development Community Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos jokingly replied to a question about the talks on Zimbabwe saying that Zuma was occupied by the Malema ‘problem’ and didn’t have time for other issues...

Insitec subsidiary Energia Capital created a joint venture with Angola’s Unitel mobile phone company which is run by Isabel dos Santos daughter of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos...

Luanda’s rumour mill has gone into overdrive after the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola and the privately-owned Novo Jornal suggested that President José Eduardo dos Santos may stand down before or after next year’s elections – possibly in favour of Manuel Vicente boss of the state oil company Sonangol...

Indeed Zuma and Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos rounded on Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan at the African Union summit for backing the use of ‘legitimate force’ to depose Gbagbo after United Nations monitors judged that he had lost the election...

Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos’s government is unhappy with Kinshasa’s rapprochement with Kigali in 2009 and angered by Kabila’s apparent favouring of the Great Lakes region as a trading partner in preference to its Atlantic neighbour...

The grandly titled Grupo de Revitalização e Execução da Comunicação Institucional da Administração (GRECIA) will report to President José Eduardo dos Santos’s Minister of State Carlos Maria da Silva Feijó and has a budget of US$50 million...

Meanwhile President José Eduardo dos Santos leaves Angolans guessing about whether he will stand in next year’s presidential election...

Taboo for years the question of who will succeed President José Eduardo dos Santos has finally come into the open...

This is despite continuing scepticism from Angola’s President José Eduardo dos Santos and South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma...

President José Eduardo dos Santos is lobbying for US President Barack Obama to stop over in Luanda later this year Africa Confidential understands...