Vol 51 No 25 | 
            - CÔTE D'IVOIRE
	     Disrupting those flows will be more difficult  especially money from his allies in Moscow (Russia’s Lukoil is a key operator) and Luanda  from where his friend President José Eduardo dos Santos has offered strong support...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    For the first time in his 31 years in power  Angola’s President  José Eduardo dos Santos  gave a State of the Nation address to the National Assembly in Luanda on 15 October...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     However  the formal communiqué at the end of President Joseph Kabila’s visit to his Angolan opposite number  José Eduardo dos Santos  on 20 September made the routine declarations of friendship and solidarity...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Condé  an old classmate of France’s Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner  has been active in the Socialist International  alongside presidents Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d’Ivoire  José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola and Jacob Zuma of South Africa...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Angola’s failure to secure a rating from any of the three international rating agencies further restricts the financing options for President José Eduardo dos Santos’s government...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 51 No 8 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
	     There is general dissatisfaction in Parliament about the negotiations led by Mendé when oil minister  which led to the signing in July 2007 of a Joint Development Zone agreement by Presidents Kabila and José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Exem’s Director  Konema Mwenenge  told British lobbyists Global Witness that he had a ‘professional’ relationship with Sindika Dokolo  the husband of Isabel dos Santos  who is the daughter of President José Eduardo dos Santos (AC Vol 51 No 4)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Intending to run for another term in office in 2012  President José Eduardo dos Santos has moved close allies into key ministries...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    President José Eduardo dos Santos says he laments the rise of grand corruption in Angola as it undermines the social fabric...