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Diamonds: MPLA siding with anti-Dos Santos camp to please Unita?

By cancelling two diamond permits until now held by Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos [...]

Published on 27.03.2018 at 03:30 GMT

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Tense negotiations over Sindika Dokolo memorial

After the memorial event for late Congolese businessman Sindika Dokolo held on 5 November by his widow Isabel dos Santos in Dubai, where the couple lived and where Dokolo died on 29 October, the family of former president José Eduardo dos Santos planned to hold three simultaneous masses.

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Sindika Dokolo and his wife Isabel dos Santos.

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Miala in line to oversee all spy services

The head of internal intelligence Fernando Garcia Miala is set to launch a sweeping reform of the intelligence services that will effectively put him at the head of the country's entire security apparatus

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Lourenço caught in crossfire between Generals Kianda and Disciplina

The most recent defence committee meeting, which was chaired by President João Lourenço on 25 March, was marked once again [...]

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João Lourenço puts faith in youth with Vera Daves de Sousa

The Angolan president João Lourenço is more than ever reliant on his 35-year-old minister of finance, Vera Daves de Sousa, [...]

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The Furi's diamond project moves forward

To start production at the Furi diamond mine that sits [...]

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João Lourenço dispatches José Eduardo dos Santos's former army chief to London

The Angolan president is giving several figures who served under dos Santos a second chance, the latest being General Geraldo Sachipengo Nunda, who was dismissed in April 2018.

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Isabel dos Santos still has an eye on mines

Ever since stepping into power in 2017, Angolan president João [...]

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João Lourenço seeks to overhaul his top brass

The former defence minister and now president of Angola does not hold back in his criticisms of his successor at [...]

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Banco Sol, a presidential bank

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

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Joao Lourenco promises power to his strongholds Huila and Namibe

Work to rehabilitate and upgrade the 27 MW hydropower plant [...]

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MEPs ready to tackle blood diamond issue head-on

While the European Union has been gradually building its regulatory [...]

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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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MPLA oil men team up against Isabel dos Santos

Following on from President Joao Lourenco's move to oust Isabel [...]

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MEP to speak out for diamond revenue

As part of the reopening in Ghent of the trial [...]

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Dos Santos network now batting for Joao Lourenco

While Isabel dos Santos' Angolan mining portfolio is shrinking before her eyes (AMI 409), her father, former president Jose Eduardo [...]

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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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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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Diamonds: The Marques case batters the generals' image anew

Generals under fire from a journalist are determined to have a court convict him. At the price of tarnishing even more their image among potential foreign partners.

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João Lourenço seeks to overhaul his top brass

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Joao Lourenco promises power to his strongholds Huila and Namibe

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MEPs ready to tackle blood diamond issue head-on

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

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MPLA oil men team up against Isabel dos Santos

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Dos Santos network now batting for Joao Lourenco

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Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Angola
Diamonds: MPLA siding with anti-Dos Santos camp to please Unita?

Angola
Tense negotiations over Sindika Dokolo memorial

Angola
Miala in line to oversee all spy services

Angola
Lourenço caught in crossfire between Generals Kianda and Disciplina

Angola
João Lourenço puts faith in youth with Vera Daves de Sousa

Angola
The Furi's diamond project moves forward

Angola
João Lourenço dispatches José Eduardo dos Santos's former army chief to London

Angola
Isabel dos Santos still has an eye on mines

Angola
João Lourenço seeks to overhaul his top brass

Angola
Banco Sol, a presidential bank

Angola
Joao Lourenco promises power to his strongholds Huila and Namibe

Angola
MEPs ready to tackle blood diamond issue head-on

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

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

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MPLA oil men team up against Isabel dos Santos

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