But that was in 2024 and now analysts agree President João Lourenço has fully pivoted to the west after being wooed by the Trump White House and US business...
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That leaves President João Lourenço his finance minister Vera Daves de Sousa and National Bank of Angola governor Manuel Tiago Dias with some harsh policy choices...
Recent developments may reassure economists investors and markets that – on fiscal and debt matters – President João Lourenço's administration including respected Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa is on the right track...
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President João Lourenço's decision to re-hire Washington-based lobbyists Squire Patton Boggs is the most lucrative of several new lobbying deals linking African governments with the K-street lobbyist networks...
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That African leaders want a more transactional relationship with the EU was made clear by the host Angola's president João Lourenço whose opening remarks were that ‘Europe has the know-how and technology Africa has the raw materials that are essential to the world's industries'...
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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...
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...