Barring a last-minute summit between President José Eduardo dos Santos and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi both sides are moving towards another major military confrontation...
Luanda's regional strategy to isolate and encircle Jonas Savimbi and his União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola forces took further shape with President José Eduardo dos Santos' hosting of a summit on 27 October in his Futungo de Belas headquarters for the Presidents of Congo-Brazzaville Congo- Kinshasa and Gabon...
Sassou' s main political and military support came from President José Eduardo dos Santos who provided the old MiG-21 fighters which piloted by Congolese bombarded the Presidential Palace and Lissouba's areas of south Brazzaville in early October...
US warms upUNITA argues that the only way of resolving the diamond issue is by a face-to-face meeting between Savimbi and President José Eduardo dos Santos...
Equally President José Eduardo dos Santos' government has never hidden its distaste for Lissouba's government and its regional connections and has channelled arms to Sassou's Cobras...
In Angola where a fragile ceasefire supports a tenuous peace process President José Eduardo dos Santos put reconciliation among the political elite above all else in May 1996 by simply decreeing a general amnesty for those guilty of human rights abuses and crimes against state security...
Real authority resides not in Prime Minister Fernando França van Dúnem's bloated government but in President José Eduardo dos Santos' Futungo de Belas presidential palace and Gen...
President José Eduardo dos Santos is cheering on Laurent-Désiré Kabila's forces and has helped by facilitating the airlift of several battalions of 'Katangese gendarmes' (both serving and former soldiers in the Forças Armadas de Angola) to Bukavu...
Elf's growing investment alongside the other French major Total has dented Jonas Savimbi's hopes that Paris might be a counterweight to Western support for President José Eduardo dos Santos' government...
Neither has Savimbi been able to agree with President José Eduardo dos Santos about a division of spoils in the crucial diamond-mining areas in north-eastern Angola...