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2. The New Angola: A Conversation with Foreign Minister Manuel Domingos Augusto
- Author:
- Atlantic Council
- Publication Date:
- 08-2019
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Atlantic Council
- Abstract:
- A twenty-five-year civil war, coupled with rapid oil-fueled growth, shaped Angola into a country ripe with contradictions. It is Sub-Saharan Africa’s third largest economy and the region’s second largest oil producer. However, many Angolans live on less than $2 a day and social indicators, from education to life expectancy, are low. When President João Lourenço was elected in 2017, many people rejoiced his promise of a “new Angola.” Since then, his government has taken swift action to fight “the cancer of corruption,” clean up the business environment, and diversify the economy, reducing the country’s overdependence on oil revenues. But to make meaningful progress, Angola needs to attract greater foreign investment in sectors beyond petroleum. Please join the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center on Monday, August 19, for a timely conversation with H.E. Manuel Domingos Augusto, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Angola, on the US-Angola partnership going forward.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
3. Priority Venezuela: The Global Reverberations of a Humanitarian Crisis
- Author:
- Atlantic Council
- Publication Date:
- 10-2019
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Atlantic Council
- Abstract:
- As world leaders gather in New York, one crisis – Venezuela -- threatens to increasingly spread beyond its borders without renewed international attention. The Western Hemisphere’s largest man-made emergency is the result of years of Nicolás Maduro’s failed economic policies, cronyism, corruption, and systemic human rights violations. Now is the time to refocus and reaffirm the world’s attention to the global implications of Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Venezuela and Global Focus