With general elections now set for 24 August President João Lourenço will face an uphill battle to fend off an opposition candidate widely popular among a younger generation seeking an end to the highly centralised rule of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA)...
Falling living standards mass unemployment and hunger mean the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) and its leader President João Lourenço face the first realistic chance since independence of losing an election...
They fear that would drive President João Lourenço even further into Russian arms...
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Vol 63 No 3 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Voter verdictIn August voters in Angola and Kenya both countries hit by rising debt service burdens and slowing growth will cast their verdict on the performance of the João Lourenço and Uhuru Kenyatta governments (AC Vol 63 No 1 The opposition sees a new chance)...
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In 2021 Angola's President João Lourenço on behalf of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region attempted to mediate between Touadéra and the armed groups...
The coalition is challenging the President and MPLA leader João Lourenço amid growing discontent with falling living standards over the last five years as ministers restructure the country's oil and gas dependent economy...
DISPATCHES
They include South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa Ghana's Nana Addo Akufo-Addo Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara Senegal's Macky Sall Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Ethiopia's Sahle-Work Zewde Mozambique's Filipe Nyusi and Angola's João Lourenço together with three prime ministers: Spain's Pedro Sanchez Italy's Mario Draghi and Portugal's António Costa (AC Vol 62 No 4 France holds tight in the Sahel & Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...
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While public debt is estimated at a heady 134% of GDP the rally on global crude markets could be enough for Africa's second largest oil exporter to go it alone freeing the MPLA to bankroll pre-election giveaways to secure a second term for President João Lourenço in August 2022...
President João Lourenço promised an end to the corruption that characterised the rule of his predecessor José Eduardo dos Santos to the impunity of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola and a new role for an emboldened civil society...
Vol 61 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Tshisekedi broke off his consultations to visit Luanda for talks with President João Lourenço on 16 November a day before a Confédération Africaine de Football qualifier match in the city between the two countries' teams (Congo-Kinshasa won 1-0)...
President João Lourenço faces deepening public anger over the country's economic implosion and accusations that his anti-corruption campaign is replacing one set of dishonest officials with another...
Luanda reshuffles the oligarchs One of the defences mounted by President João Lourenço's allies to the attacks over his chief of staff Edeltrudes Costa is that they are fuelled by the Dos Santos clan using their still-influential network in Angola...
