At least 22 people have been killed, hundreds injured, and more than 1,200 arrested in some of the largest protests Angola has seen since the end of its civil war in 2002. The protests erupted in ...

Angola’s embattled opposition is widely expected to mount its biggest challenge yet to the ruling MPLA in the general election on Wednesday, 24 August. The poll is likely to be close and some analysts ...

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An election commission official in Luanda said that the MPLA (People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola) party had won just over 64 percent of vote. The MPLA, which has ruled since Angola's ...

People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) supporters gather as Angola incumbent President João Lourenço addresses an elections rally in Luanda on July 23, 2022. Angolans head to the polls ...

A new generation could end decades of MPLA rule this week and serve notice on Africa’s veteran leaders in polls seen as test of democracy Millions of Angolans will vote this week in a landmark ...

Adalberto Costa Junior, leader of Angola’s opposition party, The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) arrives to cast his vote. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images Preliminary ...

Angolan girls in front of a patriotic slogan on a wall. Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images Angolan president João Lourenço, who has been returned to power with a greatly ...

Angola's ruling MPLA party is heading for a landslide victory in the country's first parliamentary elections in 16 years, preliminary results show. With around half of the votes counted, the MPLA had ...

President João Lourenço is set for a second term in office Angola's governing MPLA party looks set to extend its almost 50-year-long stint in power, holding off a challenge from its former civil war ...