Angola: Cabinda outlook raised by Luanda’s political-economic, security outreach

Recent political-economic and security developments in Angola’s Cabinda province are improving stability and raising security for the exclave’s hydrocarbons industry. Operators including Chevron, ENI, and Total are likely to find greater breathing space from geopolitical tensions that in the past led to conflict between local oppositional political actors and Angolan central government officials. Benefactors from renewed geopolitical stability in Cabinda also include institutional investors in Angola’s Eurobonds. Cabinda province has long faced rebellion activity driven by local actors striving for greater autonomy, if not independence, from the Angolan national government in distant Luanda. The basis for the conflict is an …

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