The move reflected growing impatience from the UN Western and African states with UNITA's failure to comply with almost any of the provisions of the nine-point plan agreed with the UN and President José Eduardo dos Santos' ruling Movimento Popular para a Libertação de Angola in January...
Their preferred strategy is gradually to rebuildUNIT A ' spoliticalbaseandcapitaliseonthegrowing unpopularity of President José Eduardo dos Santos' government...
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...