Africa Monitor Intelligence

Angola: Lourenço and MPLA's interests in Joana Lina's “Return”

The appointment of JOANA LINA (JLI) as the new governor of Luanda is seen in qualified political circles as a “new sign” that JOÃO LOURENÇO (JL) is rehabilitating and, eventually, trying to attract to his supporters figures from the regime in the past connoted as “very close” to the previous PR, JOSÉ EDUARDO DOS SANTOS (JES). READ MORE