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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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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')...


Macron's relaunch

Discussing food security in Angola with President João Lourenço will be less delicate...


Lourenço faces a tough rebuild

President João Lourenço came out of last August's elections doubly weakened – by the opposition which made historic gains despite the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola's (MPLA) control of state institutions and within his own party (AC Vol 63 No 18 Lourenço's bruising victory)...


Dos Santos ups the PR war

Isabel dos Santos is planning to take the PR fight to her late father's successor Angolan President João Lourenço by hiring K-Street lobbyists with close links to former United States President Donald Trump and a history of controversial clients...

The contract with Stryk Global Diplomacy – previously known as the Sonoran Policy Group – gives a very broad mandate stating that the 'consultant will engage with the United States Government to expose the Human Rights crimes and abuses of Angolan President João Lourenço'...


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