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Angolan Leader Denies Targeting Predecessor's Family in Shake-Up

  • President vows to fix situations ‘harmful to public interest’
  • Lourenco says mulling fate of board of $5 billion wealth fund
Joao Lourenco

Joao Lourenco

Photographer: Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images

Angolan President Joao Lourenco denied he’s targeting the family of his predecessor, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, whose eldest daughter was among hundreds of officials fired after he took the helm of Africa’s second-biggest oil producer in September.

“This isn’t about chasing people,” Lourenco told reporters Monday in the capital, Luanda. “It’s about fixing situations that proved to be harmful to the public interest.”