LUANDA, (CAJ News) – from PEDRO AGOSTO in Luanda, Angola
CLOSE to three decades after their tense relations normalised, Angola and the United States (US) appear heading on a collision course over the African country’s flagrant disregard of contractual obligations to American companies.
The waning relations are contrary to suggestions this week by a senior US official that interactions were cordial and his country was in support of “bold” reforms Angola was undertaking under President Joao Lourenco.
Behind the scenes, tensions are simmering with the administration of Donald Trump over the unpaid debts.
Donald Trump Junior, a key figure in his father’s election campaign that culminated in the elder Trump assuming office in 2017, this week disclosed indeed a storm was brewing.
Continue reading “Bad debtor Angola on brink of US sanctions”
