Economics
Angola's Dos Santos Family Under Pressure to Give Up Key Posts
- President Lourenco has fired heads of several state firms
- Dos Santos’ eldest daughter, Isabel, is Africa’s richest woman
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The children of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos are facing increasing pressure to step down from key posts, two months after the first leadership change in Africa’s second-biggest oil producer in almost four decades.
Since replacing Dos Santos at the helm of Angola in September, Joao Lourenco, 63, has fired the governor of the central bank, the head of diamond company Endiama and the boards of all three state-owned media companies. The string of dismissals has earned Lourenco the nickname “relentless remover.”