Isabel dos Santos is planning to take the PR fight to her late father's successor Angolan President João Lourenço by hiring K-Street lobbyists with close links to former United States President Donald Trump and a history of controversial clients...
The contract with Stryk Global Diplomacy – previously known as the Sonoran Policy Group – gives a very broad mandate stating that the 'consultant will engage with the United States Government to expose the Human Rights crimes and abuses of Angolan President João Lourenço'...
Despite the best efforts of Angolan President João Lourenço to mediate between Tshisekedi and Kagame it is unlikely that either man will back down...
Chaired by Angola's president João Lourenço the summit brought together Congo-Kinshasa's Felix Tshisekedi Kenyatta Burundi's Evariste Ndayishimiye and Rwanda's foreign minister Vincent Biruta...
Within the region the African Union has simply made a bland call for 'all stakeholders to engage in a constructive dialogue' though Angolan President João Lourenço and Kenya's former President Uhuru Kenyatta are acting as emissaries...
Vol 63 No 20 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
That is why the ruling party under President João Lourenço faced its closest ever election in August...
Surrounded by hundreds of soldiers João Lourenço was sworn in for a second presidential term at Praça da República in Luanda on 15 September...
The 24 August general elections produced the victory that President João Lourenço expected but not by a margin that the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) is used to...
Welwitschia ('Tchizé') dos Santos also a target of Angolan justice for alleged corruption claimed that President João Lourenço has snatched the body of her father who died in Spain in July for political purposes...
DISPATCHES
But late on 5 September the Court dismissed the UNITA petition allowing for President João Lourenço to be sworn in for a second term this month...
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On 29 August the Comissão Nacional Eleitoral (CNE – electoral commission) announced that President João Lourenço had won with 51...
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The public face of the MPLA campaign President João Lourenço has refused to engage the opposition directly having declined invitations for public debate...
The shadow campaign machine The parallel electoral machine in the presidency is headed by President João Lourenço's right-hand man the head of the Civil Cabinet Edeltrudes Costa (AC Vol 61 No 3 Mounting protests face police violence)...
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