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Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Congo

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Uganda Proscovia Nabbanja, the prominent national oil company boss.

Angola Manuel Gomes da Conceicao Homem, governor of Lourenço's Luanda aspirations.

Zimbabwe Chief Koti, Harare's tourism strategist.

Congo Michrist Kaba-Mboko, Congolese youth's new champion.

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Portugal pulls out the stops to safeguard its influence in lusophone Africa

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Emmerson Mnnangagwa
Esperanca Maria Eduardo Francisco Da Costa
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Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

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From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

The New Guard
Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Congo

Inner circles | Angola
Lourenço banks on feminising MPLA in his second term

Spotlight | Angola
Lourenço marshals his forces in hope of parliamentary majority

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Portugal pulls out the stops to safeguard its influence in lusophone Africa

Inner circles | Angola
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