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José Eduardo dos Santos

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


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Luanda diversifies its portfolio

French national Pierre Falcone acts as an advisor to CSIH through his private equity company Pierson Asia and is also a close confidant of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos...


Oil, votes and Beijing

Yet stopping many of the construction projects and the jobs they create is not an option for President Jose Eduardo dos Santos who is due to face elections this year...


Best friends again

Although President José Eduardo dos Santos failed to attend the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing in 2006 he and his ministers have embarked on a round of intensive negotiations as Luanda's financial position has worsened in line with falling world oil prices...


Another new world order

In December 2008 President José Eduardo dos Santos travelled to Beijing to secure access to Chinese financing despite the financial crisis and falling oil price...


Go East, old man

Harare knows that a loss of public support from Angola’s President José Eduardo dos Santos would be disastrous...


Jungle justice

This time the campaigners dropped claims about Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Campaoré two of Paris’s favoured Presidents...


The man who says no

French President Nicolas Sarkozy telephoned Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos to encourage the creation of an African Union force for Congo...


Stand and deliver

The crushing victory of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) in the parliamentary elections on 5-6 September opens the way for veteran party leader President José Eduardo dos Santos to stand again at the presidential election due in 2009 and to change Angola’s constitution at the party’s whim...


The Angolagate trial

The story began in 1993 with President José Eduardo dos Santos’s request for arms to fight Jonas Savimbi’s União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels; this was passed by Jean-Bernard Curial the Parti Socialiste’s Africa expert to Bruno Delhaye who advised the French President on African affairs...


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