Angola
Covid-19 pandemic changes balance of power around João Lourenço

Angola
Luanda races against clock to comply with anti-doping code before Paris Olympic Games

Angola is doing all it can to be removed from the World Anti-Doping Agency's blacklist before the Paris Olympic Games start in July.

The New Guard
Angola, Mozambique, Egypt, Senegal

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

EgyptYoussef Salem, the unflappable unicorn creator.

AngolaTerritory administration Minister Dionisio Manuel da Fonseca, João Lourenço's new straight-talking champion.

MozambiqueEmilia Chambal speaks for the Frelimo youth.

SenegalThierno Seydou Ly, the engineer with a career on the fast track.

Angola
Lourenço's young finance team up against carping MPLA heavyweights

As the country endures a financial maelstrom and battles its creditors, the team running its finances is under fire from the party that is barely distinguishable from the state.

Angola
G20 debt relief: Luanda's ticking time bomb

Angola has already been groaning under the weight of its private debt, for which it needs to raise $1.5bn just to pay for Eurobonds coupons this year alone, and is playing a fine balance with its public debt.

Angola, DRC
Lourenço assigns Tete António to oversee oil relations with Tshisekedi

The recently sacked Angolan foreign affairs minister Manuel Domingos Augusto had been fighting for the past two years to make sure the Kabila-era oil deal was kept as is.

Angola
Lourenço plans to sort out Benguela province bridge problems

President João Lourenço of Angola signed a decree on April 6 paving the way to put the construction and repair of five bridges out to tender.

Angola
Sonangol USA: Elma Almeida, M. Vicente's unsinkable advisor

Most of the senior management in place at Sonangol under former President José Eduardo Dos Santos have been sacked since [...]

Angola, DRC
Blocks 14/15: minister Domingos fighting to keep oil zone status quo with Tshisekedi

From Luanda's point of view, the new Angolan president João Lourenço is hell bent on stopping his Congolese homologue Felix [...]

Angola
Banco Sol, a presidential bank

A minority shareholder (5.42%) in the country's seventh largest bank [...]