Angolan leader denies tensions with predecessor despite clean-up campaign

Angolan President Joao Lourenco has denied being at loggerheads with his long-serving predecessor Jose Eduardo dos Santos, many of whose relatives and friends he has sacked from public office in a fight against corruption. 

In November, within three months of taking control of Angola, Lourenco sacked dos Santos's daughter, as head of the state-run oil company Sonangol.
 
In recent weeks, he has fired a string of other business figures closely associated with his predecessor.

A long-standing pillar of the regime, the new president promised to distance himself from the dos Santos clan during his successful campaign ahead of the August 23 poll. 

SOURCE: NEWS24
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