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dos Santos, José Eduardo

dos Santos, José Eduardo (zhOOze' ē&thstrok;wär'dOO dOOs säN'tOOz) [key], 1942–, president of Angola (1979–). Educated in the USSR as an engineer, he was foreign minister in the first government of independent Angola, succeeding Neto as president in 1979. In 1991, he abandoned Marxism and negotiated an end to the civil war with the insurgent National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The peace ended when dos Santos outpolled UNITA candidate Jonas Savimbi for the presidency, and UNITA forces resumed fighting (1992). A second peace effort in 1994 also ended in renewed fighting, in 1998.

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Dos Santos will just go, he says; Angola and its ruler.(Jose Eduardo dos Santos says he will retire when Angola holds an election. Should he be believed?)(Brief Article) (The Economist (US))

Do something: Angola. (Pres. Jose Eduardo dos Santos fired the prime minister, the cabinet and the head of the central bank in an effort to cope with the nation's economic problems)(Brief Article) (The Economist (US))

Angolan prime minister, Mr Jose Eduardo dos Santos, has launched the $US 90 million Luanda railway modernisation project, which will upgrade the regional network to allow line speed to increase from 45km/h to 80km/h.(Angola) (International Railway Journal)

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The more things change; the superpowers have bowed out, but Angola's power struggle rages on. (U.S. News & World Report)

Close call: Angola. (tensions between MPLA government and UNITA) (The Economist (US))

War, peace, war. (Angola) (The Economist (US))

Chevron oil and the Savimbi problem; how key U.S. political figures collaborated with oil-giant Chevron, an important partner of the corrupt regime in Angola. Jonas Savimbi was assassinated and the war ended. (Special Report).(Company Profile)(Statistical Data Included) (Insight on the News)

The familiar face of battle: in Angola, an old American ally chooses civil war over democracy. (UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi rejects election results) (U.S. News & World Report)

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