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Angola

Major General Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenço

Deputy coordinator of the MPLA's election plan

Date of Birth: 05/03/1954
Place of Birth: Lobito

Married to Aga Afonso Dias with five children.

Education: BA, History, Soviet Union, 1978-82; speaks Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and English

Career: Member, MPLA Central Committee, 1985 to date; Governor, Moxico and Benguela provinces, 1983-89; Chief, Directorate of National Policy (promoted to rank of Major General), 1989; Member, MPLA Political Bureau, 1990 to date; MPLA Information Secretary and leader of MPLA caucus in the National Assembly, 1992-; Secretary General of the MPLA.