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 ...

The election that may decide Angola's future is not the general election scheduled for 2027. It may be the internal election of the ruling MPLA, at the party congress in December 2026.In Angola, the ...

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 is investigating a former general challenging President João Lourenço for leadership of the country’s ruling MPLA.

(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 ...