Bendler was hired to lobby President João Lourenço who came to power in September 2017 on behalf of Bastos de Morais whose firm Quantum Global had been hired to run the FSDEA from its launch in 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 22 Sovereign wonga fund)...
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President João Lourenço's administration has been striving to cut fuel subsidies to reduce debt servicing costs while avoiding disorder...
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Vol 66 No 10 |
- OMAN
- AFRICA
The push is backed by diplomacy and in December Angola's President João Lourenço met Oman ruler Sultan Haitham bin Tariq in Muscat where Oman's state-backed Maaden International Investment Fund took a 24% stake in the Catoca and Luele diamond mining project...
The BRDC knows that chances of meaningful agreement are almost nil which is why they constantly refer to the Angolan president João Lourenço who took over from President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville as the regional mediator in 2017...
Now in her sixth year as minister she previously served as a senior official in the Treasury before being appointed to the role by President João Lourenço in October 2019 (AC Vol 63 No 17 Economic woes challenge election winner)...
The M23's boycott of the Luanda talks on 18 March raises more questions about the plan by Angolan President João Lourenço and the African Union to secure a ceasefire ahead of talks on devolution and land rights...
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Angola's President João Lourenço is reluctantly continuing with his attempted mediation between Kinshasa and Kigali at the same time as he holds the African Union's rotating presidency...
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The decision by Angola's President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço to step down from his role as mediator of peace talks between Congo-K and Rwanda as he takes over the rotating chair of the African Union is another blow for Congo-K which loses one of its main allies...
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Angola's President João Lourenço the officially designated AU mediator between Kinshasa and Kigali demanded on January 29 that the RDF leaves Congo-K...
The prospects are not good following the cancellation of a summit designed by Angolan President João Lourenço to bring Tshisekedi and President Paul Kagame face to face to negotiate a ceasefire plan (Dispatches 17/12/24 Dispute on M23's status derails latest peace talks)...