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Angola
Lourenço scrutinises financially diminished sovereign fund

Angolan president João Lourenço announced the opening of a tender for a contract to analyse the 2021 results of the Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA), a sovereign fund mainly financed by oil revenue. [...]

Published on 01/03/2021 at 06:00 GMT

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Sovereign fund dream team, unloved by Lourenço, fights for survival

The Fundo Soberano de Angola, a leftover from the dos Santos era, has lost its shine since João Lourenço came to power. The technocrats appointed in 2018 to run the fund have been forced to shrink their ambitions in the face of a drastic reduction of its portfolio and the government's patent lack of interest.

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Banco Sol struggles to shake reputation as MPLA's bank

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Coutinho Nobre Miguel, dubbed the MPLA's banker. He was the boss of Banco Sol until last year and remains a major shareholder.

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Five years after he was accused of defrauding the Angolan sovereign fund he was managing, Swiss-Angolan financier Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais has finally been banned from managing companies in Mauritius. The sanction was slow in coming and has fallen at a bad time for Mauritius as it faces criticism from the European Union for having failed to take more drastic action against money laundering.

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Bombarded on the oil front, Joao Lourenco shores up his mining turf

While handing over the reins of the oil sector to Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola's former president (AEI 802), [...]

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

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

Angola
Lourenço scrutinises financially diminished sovereign fund

Inner circles | Angola
Sovereign fund dream team, unloved by Lourenço, fights for survival

Spotlight | Angola
Banco Sol struggles to shake reputation as MPLA's bank

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Angola, Mauritius
Mauritius ambiguous over sanctions against Swiss-Angolan financier Jean-Claude Bastos

Inner circles | Angola
New generation businessman Agostinho Kapaia steps into the limelight

Angola
Bombarded on the oil front, Joao Lourenco shores up his mining turf