Joao Lourenco, presidential candidate for the ruling MPLA party. REUTERS/Stephen Eisenhammer LUANDA (Reuters) - The presidential candidate of Angola’s ruling MPLA party, Joao Lourenco, closed his ...

Fewer than half of Angola's registered voters turned out for Wednesday's election, which despite being the closest fought yet ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- Angola’s President Joao Lourenco is poised for a second term as his party raced toward a majority in a closely fought election. Lourenco’s party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the centuries Europeans of various strains have tried to fulfil their fantasies in Africa. I should know because I'm one of them. Not that I have ever nursed urges to convert and conquer, trade ...

LUANDA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Angola's National Electoral Commission (CNE) said on Thursday that with nearly all votes counted after Wednesday's general elections, the ruling MPLA party held a majority ...

Protests demanding better living in Angola have become common since 2011. This one was in November 2020. EFE-EPA/Luso Angolans go to the polls on 24 August to vote in parliamentary elections. The ...