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ANGOLA GUINEA BISSAU

Lourenço and Embalo's spat widens divisions in Portuguese-speaking Africa

Angolan president João Lourenço received Domingos Simões Pereira - Guinea Bissau president Umaro Sissoco's main election rival - in February 2020. © @dsimoespereira

Already torn apart by the tug of war between the Angolan and Brazilian heads of state, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries now has to navigate the frosty relations between Guinea Bissau president Umaro Sissoco Embalo and his Angolan opposite number João Lourenço. [...] (332 words)

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Diplomacy

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ANGOLA
GUINEA BISSAU
Community of Portuguese Language Countries
Denis Sassou Nguesso
Domingos Simoes Pereira
Félix Tshisekedi
Isabel dos Santos
João Lourenço
José Eduardo dos Santos
Joseph Kabila
Sindika Dokolo
Tete António
Umaro Sissoco Embalo

Lisbon appoints Francisco Alegre Duarte to strengthen ties with Luanda

A very close associate of Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, Francisco Alegre Duarte, was named Lisbon's ambassador to Angola on 24 December. [...]

Francisco Alegre Duarte, new Portuguese ambassador to Angola. © LinkedIn

PORTUGAL EQUATORIAL GUINEA ANGOLA Diplomacy 07/05/2021

Sulking Lisbon shuns CPLP business summit in Malabo

Portugal has yet to get over Equatorial Guinea's accession to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, which it opposed: it sent no government representatives to one of the highlights of the bloc's calendar, the Malabo business summit. [...]

ANGOLA CONGO Diplomacy 01/02/2021

Relations between Sassou and Lourenço become ever more poisonous

Presidential advisors in Angola now suspect Congo of colluding with the separatist Frente de Libertação do Estado de Cabinda (FLEC). [...]

GUINEA BISSAU Politics 19/01/2021

Embaló wants to declare war on parliament

Now that he no longer has a two-thirds majority in the National People's Assembly, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló cannot carry out his planned constitutional reform. He has threatened to dissolve the assembly, raising fears that this could provoke a political crisis just one year after his own highly contested election as president. [...]

The president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló. © Antonio Cotrim/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

ANGOLA Diplomacy 06/01/2021

Spy's murder drives a wedge between Luanda and Moscow

Russian diplomats have had to specify Leonid Sartov's full credentials to the Angolan police after he was murdered in his home in Luanda's Alvalade neighbourhood on the night of 27 December. [...]

DRC ANGOLA Energy 04/12/2020

Oil minister Azevedo pushes Kinshasa to stop discussions about borders

Lourenço administration methodically pursues his strategy to weaken his Congolese neighbour and hold onto its oil, including Chevron and ExxonMobil blocks. [...]

Angolan Oil Minister Diamantino Azevedo. © Ministério dos Recursos Minerais, Petróleo e Gás Angola/Facebook

ANGOLA Diplomacy 30/11/2020

Lourenço's gunboat diplomacy

The Angolan president has very visibly demonstrated his support for Felix Tshisekedi with a deployment of military aircraft. He has already suggested military alliances with Alassane Ouattara and Ali Bongo. [...]

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi and his Angolan counterpart João Lourenço. © AMPE ROGERIO/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ANGOLA Infrastructures Energy 23/11/2020

Luanda left over a barrel as DP World steams to port victory

President Lourenço would have preferred a shipping company to take on Luanda's multipurpose terminal rather than DP World. But it finally resigned itself to choosing the Dubai-based port operator, which spared no expense to win its first major contract in southern Africa. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 12/11/2020

Embalo and Sassou discreetly manoeuvre against Ouattara in Oyo

A fierce enemy of Alassane Ouattara, the Guinea-Bissau president is seeking to rally his elder Congolese counterpart to his cause and exert an influence over the post-electoral crisis in Ivory Coast. [...]

The Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso is seeking to involve himself in various other political crises on the continent. © EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/POOL / POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

ANGOLA Business 09/11/2020

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. [...]

Sindika Dokolo and his wife Isabel dos Santos. © Reuters/Abaca Press

PORTUGAL ANGOLA Diplomacy 06/11/2020

The twelve labours of Lisbon to reconcile Lourenço and Bolsonaro

Portuguese diplomats have been mediating since the summer between the Brazilian president and his Angolan opposite number, who have clashed over the treatment reserved for a Brazilian evangelist group in Angola. This vexed issue is continuing to divide the community of Portuguese-speaking states. [...]

ANGOLA GUINEA BISSAU Diplomacy 16/10/2020

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Community of Portuguese Language Countries
Denis Sassou Nguesso
Domingos Simoes Pereira
Félix Tshisekedi
Isabel dos Santos
João Lourenço
José Eduardo dos Santos
Joseph Kabila
Sindika Dokolo
Tete António
Umaro Sissoco Embalo

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