Joao Lourenco

The New Guard
Kenya, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Angola

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

KenyaBina Maseno mixes politics and aesthetics

DRCStéphanie Mbombo, from mining to climate finance

EthiopiaGezahegn Mamo pushes pure Ethiopian coffee

AngolaJean-Claude Nzita, spokesman for Cabinda's independence movement

Angola
Standard Chartered Bank funds final project in Angola before pulling out

British Standard Chartered Bank will help fund Luanda's new water treatment plant. Quilonga Grande, one of João Lourenço's campaign promises, needs €1.2bn in funding.

Angola
Brazil's Infraero goes all out to run Luanda's new international airport

The Brazilian airport service provider is set on bagging the contract to run the Angolan capital's international airport and has the full support of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to achieve that goal.

Angola, Zambia
Zambia eyes up Sonangol's future Lobito refinery

Zambian Energy Minister Peter Kapala and Bradford Machila, adviser to President Hakainde Hichilema, were on a trip to Angola mid-July to study the possibility of Lusaka's participation in Sonangol's refinery project at Lobito.

Angola
Gemcorp strives to get Cabinda refinery back on track

The project spearheaded by Gemcorp to build a refinery in Angola is well behind schedule, but the London-based investment management firm still believes in the project and its team in Luanda.

The New Guard
Burkina Faso, Morocco, Angola, Ethiopia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Burkina FasoJoseph Zagré, housing the middle class

MoroccoAhmed "Spins", the other Akhannouch junior

AngolaVera Daves de Sousa, Lourenço's financial ace

EthiopiaBethleem Tilahun Alemu, the entrepreneur keen to rival Nike

Angola
More MPLA associates do well out of privatisation programme

The list of winners in the 2019-2022 privatisation programme is growing. It includes honorary consuls, some foreign entrepreneurs and Angolan businessmen with ties to the president's office.

DRC
Tshisekedi forced to reshuffle intelligence chiefs after ANR boss taken ill

ANR intelligence agency boss Jean-Hervé Mbelu Biosha's health problems have forced DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi to rush through a security services reshuffle that had been on the cards for at least a year.

Angola
Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum gives army veterans turned farmers a helping hand

Farming cooperatives run by former soldiers are poised to receive an initial consignment of tractors, which will be assembled in the country thanks to the Emirati investor.

Angola
Kapose family, well-connected under dos Santos, thrives under Lourenço

Some politically well-connected Angolan families who were favoured by the previous government have boosted their businesses under the current presidency of João Lourenço. Silvestre Tulumba Kapose's clan, which is involved in the automobile and banking sectors, is doing particularly well.

Angola, DRC
Tshisekedi due in Luanda for ICGLR summit

The Congolese president, who is distancing himself from the East African Community, continues to be involved with other regional organisations and will shortly attend the next summit of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region in Luanda.