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Luanda picks out new diamonds with old allies

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“Lourenço's Herculean struggles to reform the diamonds sector”

ANGOLA

Lourenço's Herculean struggles to reform the diamonds sector

Angolan president João Lourenço has made reform of diamond mining one of the key objectives of his mandate, as he tries to end the decades-long hold of the dos Santos clan over the sector. He is betting on the deregulation of diamond sales and the development of diamond-related activities in Angola itself to attract investors and increase state revenues. So far, his efforts have produced little in the way of results. [...]

President João Lourenço may be working hard to breathe fresh life into the country's diamond industry, doing away with the practices of his predecessor José Eduardo dos Santos's era is proving more difficult. Even as the country opens its mines [...] (490 words)

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