Angola's Political Economy of War: The Role of Oil and Diamonds, 1975–2000 This article examines the significance of the political economy and geography of two valuable resources—oil and diamonds—for the course of the Angolan conflict. Matching the regional boundaries and ethnic differentiation ...
Analyzes Angola's tragic experience and the failure of the United Nations-supervised elections to end long, drawn-out conflicts. Eighteen years of civil war; Jonas Savimbi's rebel Unita armies' control of over three quarters of the ocuntry; Issue of significance to the international community; ...
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — José Eduardo dos Santos, once one of Africa’s longest-serving rulers who during almost four decades as president of Angola fought the continent’s longest civil war and turned his country into a major oil producer as well as one of the world’s poorest an...