José Eduardo dos Santos

The latest row over China’s US$6 billion credit line to the Luanda government pitted two former intelligence chiefs against each other: General Manuel Hélder Vieira Dias ‘Kopelipa’ the former security advisor to President José Eduardo dos Santos and General Fernando Garcia Miala the long-time military intelligence director...

The veteran Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (designer of Brasília) told Britain's Guardian newspaper in August that President José Eduardo dos Santos had asked him to design a new capital city next to Luanda...

Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos seems to be placated by an agreement reached with Sarkozy on the trial and transport of French arms dealer Pierre Falcone...

One highly questionable report claims that Zuma received funds from the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos in return for his support when elected...

Banks - including the new Banco Internacional de Crédito in which President José Eduardo dos Santos' daughter Isabel has shares - lend aggressively on relatively long repayment terms...

Plans for Germany to extend an oil-backed US$1 billion credit facility to President José Eduardo dos Santos' government have hit problems Africa Confidential has learned...

Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos also left early: he seemed irritated by a surprise intervention by Lesotho's Premier Pakalitha Mosisili calling for SADC member-states to push Luanda to hold free elections as soon as possible...

Manuel Helder Vieira Dias 'Kopelipa' one of President José Eduardo dos Santos' closest allies has reinforced his powerbase in the services but he remains a divisive figure...

Soares is fascinated by the extraordinary survival skills of the oil-backed ruling class: some of Africa's longest-serving rulers - notably Gabon's Omar Bongo Ondimba and Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos rule over oil-producing countries...

Africa Confidential has seen a copy of a supposedly 'classified' SA intelligence report which claims Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos secretly funds deposed Vice-President Zuma's bid for power after a foiled assassination attempt against Dos Santos by business tycoon Sexwale...