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Vol 66 No 24

Published 5th December 2025


Angola

João Lourenço’s middle power moment

It felt like a case of ‘after the Lord Mayor’s show’ when Angola’s President João Lourenço hosted the European Union-African Union summit in Luanda, as AU chair. No major funding or project announcements were made – the EU’s latest pledges on green energy and critical minerals had already been unveiled at the G20 summit in Johannesburg on 22-23 November, immediately before the meeting.

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