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João Manuel Goncalves Lourenço (J-Lo)

Date of Birth: 5 March 1954
Place of Birth: Lobito, Benguela Province, Angola


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Biden leaves behind a Lobito Corridor of uncertainty

Following an informal summit with Presidents Félix Tshisekedi Hakainde Hichilema and João Lourenço on 4 December the White House pledged an additional US$600 million in financing for projects related to the Lobito Corridor the 1 300-kilometre railway line connecting the mineral and oil-rich parts of Angola Zambia and Congo-Kinshasa...

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Leaders look for deals in the Trump marketplace

Angola's President João Lourenço is in a particularly awkward position: in December he has to welcome outgoing President Joe Biden to the Lobito Port on Angola's seaboard the starting point of the most ambitious critical minerals project by the US in Africa...


Political glitches hold up reforms

Midway into his second term President João Lourenço has spent more time trying to consolidate his grip on the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) than supporting his economic reform team trying to protect national finances cut poverty and diversify the economy under the 2023-27 National Development Plan...


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A win for the Dos Santos clan

Members of the Dos Santos family have faced a series of investigations asset freezes and prosecutions since former President José Eduardo dos Santos who died in 2022 was replaced by João Lourenço in 2017...

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Kigali pushes back against the African Union

It is a measure of the danger posed by the conflict pitting Congolese and allied forces against the M23 militia that President Félix Tshisekedi spent the last week of February criss-crossing Africa and Europe meeting Angola's President João Lourenço on 27 February and Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on the following day...


Regional fights hold back the union project

The increasingly toxic dispute between Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa over militia groups in eastern Congo-K was the subject of a mini summit hosted by Angola's President João Lourenço on 16 February (AC Vol 65 No 2 Why Abiy and Muse signed a 'memorandum of misunderstanding')...


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