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September 29, 2009
Video
Watch Assunção Afonso dos Anjos, the minister of external relations for the Republic of Angola, speak about Angolan development and U.S.-Angola relations.
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September 29, 2009, New York.
Transcript
Assunção Afonso dos Anjos, the minister of external relations for the Republic of Angola, speaks about Angolan development and U.S.-Angolan relations.
September 29, 2009
Audio
Listen to Assunção Afonso dos Anjos, the minister of external relations for the Republic of Angola, speak about Angolan development and U.S.-Angola relations.
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August 2009
Must Read
This Chatham House report provides a comparative study of the impact of Asian companies on the two leading oil producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Nigeria and Angola.
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September 9, 2008
Podcast
Jamie Ekern of CFR's Center for Preventive Action discusses her observations of the Angolan parliamentary elections from Luanda.
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September 5, 2008
Daily Analysis
Angolans headed to the polls on September 5 for their first election in sixteen years. The country is in the midst of a remarkable oil boom, but average Angolans remain among the world's poorest.
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July 21, 2008
Backgrounder
Angola, Africa's top oil producer, is flush with money. Yet wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a very few, leaving the bulk of the population in poverty.
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April 25, 2008
Academic Module
This module features teaching notes and supplemental resources for Toward an Angola Strategy: Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations, a report of an Independent Commission sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations Center for Preventive Action. This report argues that it is in the interest of the United States to help develop a sustainable and lasting peace in Angola.
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May 29, 2007
Transcript
This transcript records the CFR rollout meeting of the Center for Preventive Action's Independent Commission Report on Angola.
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May 7, 2007
News Release
“Few African countries are more important to U.S. interests than Angola. The second-largest oil producer in Africa, Angola’s success or failure in transitioning from nearly thirty years of war toward peace and democracy has implications for the stability of the U.S. oil supply as well as the stability of central and southern Africa,” finds a Council-sponsored Independent Commission in a report produced by the Center for Preventive Action, Toward an Angola Strategy: Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations.
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