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Angola

José Eduardo dos Santos

Date of Birth: 28 August 1942
Place of Birth: Luanda
Died: 8 July 2022


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Big men, big countries, big hopes

Their preferred strategy is gradually to rebuildUNIT A ' spoliticalbaseandcapitaliseonthegrowing unpopularity of President José Eduardo dos Santos' government...


De Matos makes plans

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...


Regional circle

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...


A dictator returns

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...


Time's up, again

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...


And across the river

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...


Naming names

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...


Regional rebound

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...


Trouble next door

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...


Oil the wheels

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...


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