Luanda’s old guard professes confidence but is privately rattled by recent protests by young people and calls for President José Eduardo dos Santos to stand down; it enlists popular singers to draw crowds to its rallies and pledges more jobs and university places...
Vol 53 No 16 |
- ANGOLA
- DIAMONDS
Gaydamak stated in evidence that President José Eduardo dos Santos had told Kopelipa to obtain the two rivals' agreement to the deal so as to avoid embarrassment if secret deals in the diamond business were exposed shortly before the parliamentary elections on 31 August...
Prodoil’s other partners are understood to include Marsanto a company run by Esmeralda and Edson dos Santos Sousa children of President José Eduardo dos Santos’s sister Marta dos Santos...
Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos is a close ally of Zuma’s but Angola is a regional rival to South Africa...
President José Eduardo dos Santos has not yet been named but it is expected...
Vol 53 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The European Union won’t be sending an observer mission to the polls due in August or September when the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) of President José Eduardo dos Santos is sure to win...
Some Cabindans want independence others autonomy and the government of President José Eduardo dos Santos wouldn’t offer either...
Vol 53 No 7 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Kinshasa businessmen say Angola’s President José Eduardo dos Santos introduced them to Kabila...
We hear that a report on President José Eduardo dos Santos will follow...
The dossiers also claim that President José Eduardo dos Santos’s children have been awarded shares in privatised state outfits such as mobile telephone operator Movicel and also in diamond concessions...