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Angola

Population:40.7m (2026 forecast)
GDP:$109.86bn
Debt:63.2% of GDP (2026 forecast)

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More cash for the Trump influence brokers Washington DC

For many governments on the continent, lobbyists in the US capital are seen as the fastest route to boost bilateral trade and diplomatic relations

PresidentJoão 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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João Lourenço’s middle power moment

It felt like a case of ‘after the Lord Mayor’s show’ when Angola’s PresidentJoão Lourenço hosted the European Union-African Union summit in Luanda, as AU chair. No...


CIA veteran and Trump-linked lobbyists tried to sway US$5 billion corruption probes in Maputo and Luanda

Washington-based BGR Group hired ex-Paris CIA station chief to aid defendants in sovereign wealth fund and hidden loans scandals

More questions are being raised about the accountability of lobbying companies after it has emerged in filings lodged with the United States government that veteran CIA agent Dale...


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Fuel subsidy cuts trigger protests and clashes with police

More than 20 killed in disorder that has spread beyond Luanda

PresidentJoão Lourenço’s administration has been striving to cut fuel subsidies to reduce debt servicing costs while avoiding disorder. But it has failed to strike that balance and...

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De Sousa defends US$1 billion J.P. Morgan loan

Finance Ministry to approach IMF for funds as debt matures

The average yield on Angola’s dollar bonds has soared above 13.5% in recent weeks, prompting Finance MinisterVera Daves de Sousa to shelve plans to test the...

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Vera Daves de Sousa, Angola’s trailblazer

Finance MinisterVera Daves de Sousa was one of the few African star turns at April’s spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank,...


Kigali and the M23 militia clear a path for regime change

The collapse of negotiations offers some stark choices as President Tshisekedi’s position weakens further

A week of diplomatic spats and foiled negotiations has handed more political weight to the M23 militia and its Rwandan backers to add to their string of victories...

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President Lourenço turns conciliator with pardons for First Family

Mending the fences with some in the Dos Santos clan may not do much for the President’s political standing

PresidentJoão Lourenço’s pardoning ofJosé Filomeno dos Santos, aka Zenú, the son of his predecessor PresidentJosé Eduardo dos Santos, who had been imprisoned for fraud, marks...

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Lourenço mulls his succession

With demonstrators marching again in Luanda, the MPLA government may start taking more risks

When US PresidentJoe Biden arrives in Angola on 2 December, he will be able to compare succession notes with his counterpartJoão Lourenço. After pushing some ground-breaking...


Luanda’s oil revival wins more backers after $6bn Kwanza development

President Lourenço courts investors in France, China and the US, to reverse energy sector decline

The Angolan government’s tactics to boost oil and gas investment – cutting production taxes, wooing the biggest conglomerates and quitting the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)...


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