João Manuel Goncalves Lourenço (J-Lo)

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...

Kabila has also been feeling the heat from the new Angolan President João Lourenço who is reported to have urged him at a private meeting on 9 December to resolve the security crises in his country and hold elections...

With Angola's election behind it and an unexpectedly decisive João Lourenço installed as President its prospects have improved...