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) | June 8, 1996 | Copyright

JOHANNESBURG

IN THE shadows between war and peace, economic turmoil has been festering in Angola. Last July, when the government lopped three zeros off the currency, it took 2,500 of the readjusted kwanza to buy one dollar; today, 220,000. Luanda, the capital, once an elegant city, has had no running water for over a month. Its policemen and civil servants have been unpaid for even longer. Behind his guards in a hill-top palace, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is not wholly sheltered from this chaos. On June 3rd, desperate to do something, he sacked his prime ...

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