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Angola
Joao Lourenco sets up mining task force to shake off Dos Santos era

On the back of the diamond sector reform launched in January (AMI 433), Angolan president Joao Lourenco has sunk his [...]

Published on 19/03/2019 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Agencia Nacional dos Recursos Minerais
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Endiama
Ferrangol
Isabel dos Santos
Janio Correia Victor
Joao Diniz dos Santos
Joao Lourenco
Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Jose Manuel Augusto Ganga Junior
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Ex Endiama marketing guru touts merits of country's mines

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Algerian industrialist Unostone polishes its diamond ambitions

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Industry players seek other pastures after Joao Lourenco's diamond heist

The deep reforms Angolan president Joao Lourenco has brought to the country's diamonds trade have sector heavyweights troubled ( AMI 435). Those who had flourished under Jose Eduardo dos Santos' watch have not necessarily turned away from mining altogether but [.

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Angola
Under Joao Lourenco as well, diamonds are kept in the family - and the party

Tweaks to the shareholder structure of mining company Dicorp in early 2019 should strengthen the company's ties with the powers-that-be [...]

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Stock-take of Joao Lourenco's reform of the diamond sector?

After 18-months in power, what has Angolan president Joao Lourenco managed to achieve of his great reform to overhaul the country's diamond industry (AMI 409), no longer controlled by those close to former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his [.

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Diamantino Azevedo applies new oil & gas system to mines

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Luanda-Antwerp budding friendship sounds the death knoll for Dos Santos diamond system

The grand reception put on in Luanda for the Antwerp World Diamond Center (AWDC) on September 11 was Angolan President [...]

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Endiama, Ferrangol and Sodiam on charm offensive in Paris

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Lourenco's dissection of Dos Santos mining architecture

The sweeping changes brought throughout the mining sector by new president Joao Lourenco have kick started the mining community in action. But to ensure it isn't all just political posturing and it can actually secure foreign investment, the new administration [.

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Joao Lourenco
Jose Eduardo dos Santos
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