Sinking shipThose defecting from Dos Santos's sinking ship to President Lourenço include Aldemiro Vaz da Conceição the new director of GAPI the information office at the presidency; the former presidential advisor and Sonangol chair Albina Assis Africano; the ex-Petroleum Minister José María Botelho de Vasconcelos; and Assunção dos Anjos the former Foreign Minister...
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It is not clear where the new set-up leaves the long-serving official presidential spokes-duo of Aldemiro Vaz da Conceição and José Mena Abrantes renowned for being pleasant but uncommunicative rarely answering their telephones and usually saying ‘no comment’ when they do...
Fernando Garcia Miala boss of external security; António Van Dunem Secretary of the Council of Ministers; Aldemiro Vaz da Conceição the President's official spokesman...
President José Eduardo Dos Santos' spokesman the fast-rising and insomniac Futungista (member of the Presidential circle) Aldemiro Vaz da Conceição reels off the details of UNITA's new armoury with some disgust...