José Eduardo dos Santos

The new African allies In May 2008 Sarkozy visited Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos with representatives of Total Air France Castel Thales European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) Bolloré and Société Générale; a month later a treaty followed on reciprocal investment protection...

Fêting Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Luanda last month President José Eduardo dos Santos and his colleagues from Sonangol played off the Muscovite former backers of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) against the Beijing-based former backers of late rebel leader Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA)...

Zuma is grateful to President José Eduardo dos Santos for the loan of an aircraft during the election campaign...

President José Eduardo dos Santos may have concluded that both his own prestige and the country’s would be heightened by a nationwide poll and he is sure to win it...

Isabel dos Santos daughter of President José Eduardo dos Santos owns shares (with the Portuguese businessman Américo Amorim) in Ciminvest which in turn owns 49% of Nova Cimangola; the state owns 40...

Kinshasa's Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito and ministers Célestin Mbuyu (Interior) Alexis Thambwe Mwamba (Foreign Affairs) and René Isekemanga Nkeka (Hydrocarbons) met Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos and Prime Minister António Paulo Kassoma in Luanda on 21 April and agreed to set up a joint technical commission to discuss the maritime border which will meet in May...

It had already dismissed the case once citing lack of proof despite copious evidence from a police investigation into the assets bought with state funds of Bongo Sassou-Nguesso Obiang Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré and Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos which was abruptly closed down last year...

In December President José Eduardo dos Santos's government forecast GDP growth to increase by 11...

A rapidly deteriorating economy could push President José Eduardo dos Santos to delay this year's presidential election until 2010...

ANGOLA: Downsizing democracy Nobody doubts that President José Eduardo dos Santos will be reelected in 2009...