General Fernando Garcia Miala

Candidates aligned with President Lourenço's administration include Fernando Garcia Miala head of the State Intelligence and Security Service; Homem who replaced Laborinho as Minister of Interior at the end of October; and Esperança da Costa the current Vice-President (AC Vol 63 No 17 MPLA on uncertain ground)...

He is described as increasingly isolated in his decision-making even from inner-circle figures such as the director of the Presidency's Strategic Studies and Analysis Office Norberto Garcia and intelligence service chief Fernando Miala...

Lourenço also gave the powerful role of head of the internal intelligence agency SINSE to General Fernando Miala who had been deeply humiliated and imprisoned by Dos Santos for an attempted 'coup' that was never proven (AC Vol 48 No 15)...

Behind the efforts to undermine the united opposition front have been security chief Fernando Miala along with one of the president's aides Norberto Garcia and a close friend of the president General José Tavares...

According to a source in Luanda's Serviços de Informação and Serviço de Inteligência e de Segurança de Estado (SINSE) the state intelligence service under General Fernando Garcia Miala has been told by the Presidency to dig deeper into the origin of the wealth of prominent political figures especially those linked to Sonangol – with certain exceptions such as Costa and Vicente...

It looks as if the one-time external security boss General Fernando Garcia Miala is being groomed for a key role in the Palace...

In September the former head of the Serviço de Inteligência Externa Fernando Garcia Miala was sentenced to four years' gaol for 'insubordination' (AC Vol 48 No 15)...

Fernando Miala along with Gen...

Kopelipa’s arrest follows the arrest and demotion of another long-time intelligence official a year ago General Fernando Garcia Miala...

His rival General Fernando Miala was sacked as chief of external intelligence and convicted of 'insubordination' last year...