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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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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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...
Vol 65 No 5 |
- AFRICAN UNION
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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Earlier a mini summit with Rwanda South Africa and Congo-K hosted by Angola's President João Lourenço on 16 February failed to make any progress with Tshisekedi telling officials that Kigali was perpetuating insecurity in the region and looting the region's mineral riches...
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Vol 64 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Discussing food security in Angola with President João Lourenço will be less delicate...
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)...
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'...
Despite the best efforts of Angolan President João Lourenço to mediate between Tshisekedi and Kagame it is unlikely that either man will back down...
Chaired by Angola's president João Lourenço the summit brought together Congo-Kinshasa's Felix Tshisekedi Kenyatta Burundi's Evariste Ndayishimiye and Rwanda's foreign minister Vincent Biruta...