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Angola: Lourenço's Inner Circle Increasingly Restricted

JOÃO LOURENÇO (JL) relativizes his widely recognized unpopularity, referring the causes of the phenomenon to adverse circumstances that until now he has had to face and for which he does not consider himself responsible; or as a result of “discredit campaigns” by internal adversaries. He also shares that it is within his power to reverse the phenomenon, namely through government measures that he believes may be reflected in an improvement in the living conditions of the population in general. READ MORE