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Angola: Lourenço Determined to Resist Dissent

The "cause" of the dissenters, among whom party veterans predominate, with the support of many whom JL relied on for his initial rise, enjoys manifest sympathies and/or support from different sectors of the party, but also from the party opposition and influential circles of civil society – the reason for the discomfort and distrust with which their actions are viewed in the political superstructure. READ MORE