June 12

• Angola: Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland From Cape Town to Angola [book review]

  The arch miserableist returns, and he's "happy again, back in Africa, the kingdom of light". A lot of people will hate this book, and I can see why. But strangely, I didn't. Read more »

April 30

• Angola: High Oil Prices Compensate for Tough Business Environment [analysis]

  Angola has come a long way since gaining independence from Portugal in 1975. Read more »

January 24

• Angola: Ample Reward for Investors Who Do Their Homework [analysis]

  Talk to officials from the Angolan foreign investment promotion agency, ANIP, and they will express bafflement that (non-oil-sector) US and UK companies are reluctant to enter the... Read more »

September 19, 2012

• Angola: Elections 2012 - Politics Finally Gets Real [analysis]

  The tent and the table that made up the polling station looked very small in the middle of the expanse of tarmac on Luanda's Largo da Família. In one corner, journalists... Read more »

August 30, 2012

• Angola: Elections 2012 - Beer and Circuses No Longer Enough [analysis]

  It is election month in Luanda and the city is awash with billboards, posters, and illuminated displays of President José Eduardo dos Santos, leaving little to the... Read more »

August 28, 2012

• Angola: Will Dos Santos Win Bring More Protests, Repression? [analysis]

  Ahead of the 31 August legislative elections - the third the country has ever known - the situation in Angola is increasingly tense. Opposition parties denounce the work of the... Read more »

May 01, 2012

• Angola: 'A Country in Serious Transition' [analysis]

  Angola is a country in serious transition. Leading indicators (from the admittedly scarce data available) suggest change has been afoot since the end of the civil war in 2002 -... Read more »

April 17, 2012

• Guinea Bissau: Coup Threatens Angolan Investments [analysis]

  The latest coup in Guinea-Bissau was likely led by Army Chief of Staff Antonio Indjai and motivated by discontent over Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior's attempt to use the... Read more »

April 10, 2012

• Africa: Africa's Lord of War [analysis]

  The Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known widely as 'the merchant of death', was sentenced to 25 years in jail by a New York judge on 5th April. In addition, Bout will have to... Read more »

March 12, 2012

• Angola: Foreign Minister Asserts Govt Policy Strength and Business Potential [analysis]

  Angolan Foreign Minister Georges Chicoti's visit to London in late February allowed the minister to present a vivid picture of how his government, ten years after the civil war,... Read more »

February 16, 2012

• Angola: Is Unita Sinking After Leading Member Jumps Ship? [analysis]

  It is now nine years since Jonas Savimbi was killed by Angolan government troops, but the UNITA movement he founded and led is still struggling to find its feet and to develop a... Read more »

December 19, 2011

• Africa: 2012 Polls Will Dictate Economic Futures [analysis]

  Africa's political plates are shifting. In concert with economic gains realised over the course of the past decade in particular, and the concomitant rise in a more connected, and... Read more »

December 13, 2011

• Angola: New Law Forces Oil Companies to Use Local Banks [analysis]

  Foreign oil companies operating in Sub Saharan Africa's second largest oil producer, Angola, will have the next two years to get to grips with new legislation governing their... Read more »

December 05, 2011

• Angola: Presidential Succession Debate Gets Interesting [analysis]

  Watching Angolan politics involves holding a large magnifying glass to details that in another country would not be worthy of mention. A few hundred protesters calling for change... Read more »