The election commission gave the ex-Marxist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) a 51.17% majority after all ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joao Lourenco, presidential candidate for the ruling MPLA party. REUTERS/Stephen Eisenhammer LUANDA (Reuters) - The presidential ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The election victory of Angola's ruling MPLA party was confirmed Friday despite angry complaints from opposition parties, as almost all votes were counted and poll observers backed the outcome. Joao ...