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Angola
Lourenço plays the game with EITI as elections approach

Angolan President João Lourenço. © Ampe Rogerio/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The Angola committee overseeing Luanda's application for membership of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) met for the first time in early June. The EITI sees Angola as a key asset to help it expand in southern Africa but could find its efforts to get Angola into the organisation tied to electoral considerations. [...]

Published on 28/06/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Angola
Lourenço plays the game with EITI as elections approach

Angola
Image-conscious Lourenço trumpets his anticorruption credentials

Angola
Lourenço tainted by anti-corruption probe into top adviser dos Anjos

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Lourenço finally endorses internal security cooperation deal with Bolsonaro

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Manuel Vicente's circles still in command of oil dollars

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