Lourenço Is Closing Angola’s Safety Valves

Angola’s president, João Lourenço, appears to have found the formula for perfect competition. Seeking another term as leader of the...
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Angola’s 2027 Budget and the Comforting Illusion of Numbers

Angola’s proposed 2027 budget deserves one compliment before the questions begin. The Finance Ministry has made its documentation available online...
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Inside Lourenço’s Head (Part II)

Saviours of Convenience Higino Carneiro embodies another form of complicity: discovering the system’s failings only after being sidelined by it....
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Inside Lourenço’s Head (Part I)

President João Lourenço has one head. Angola has more than 38 million. Yet a single head does the thinking, makes...
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