João Manuel Goncalves Lourenço (J-Lo)

   Yet Kabila may also choose to consider the experience of his long-ruling neighbour José Eduardo dos Santos who carefully picked Joao Lourenço to succeed him after extensive and meticulous deliberation only to find his legacy and network torn to shreds within months...

Angola under President João Lourenço grapples with increasing debts and non-existent growth despite prior hopes it would expand at around 2% this year and projections that it should accelerate considerably in 2019...

US oil companies will encourage closer ties with President João Lourenço's professed reforming regime in Angola...

In recent weeks Kabila sent top security officials to meet President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and he visited Luanda himself to meet President João Lourenço in efforts to win their support (see Feature Backers and attackers)...

President João Lourenço has shown increasing signs of frustration with Kabila since the 2016 security crisis in Congo's Kasaï region...

For Isabel dos Santos life in the year since President João Lourenço took over from her father has been difficult...

President João Lourenço excited Angolans with a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that targeted the extended family of former President José Eduardo dos Santos but now cracks are appearing in the squeaky-clean facade as impatience spreads through the streets of Luanda...

Many believed the case all but dead but Xavier came back with a vengeance last year possibly after obtaining a sympathetic hearing from the new Angolan President João Lourenço...

On 27 April the party politburo formally approved the candidacy of the state President João Lourenço to replace his predecessor as MPLA president at a special congress in September...

Ramaphosa's presidency is part of the new wave in SADC alongside Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa in Zimbabwe and João Lourenço in Angola...