When US President Joe Biden arrives in Angola on 2 December he will be able to compare succession notes with his counterpart João Lourenço...

Angola's President João Lourenço is in a particularly awkward position: in December he has to welcome outgoing President Joe Biden to the Lobito Port on Angola's seaboard the starting point of the most ambitious critical minerals project by the US in Africa...

Under President João Lourenço Angola has steered a careful path between the US China and Russia as it tries to reel in more oil investment...

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...

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...

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')...

Discussing food security in Angola with President João Lourenço will be less delicate...