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 ...

Jon Schubert receives funding from the Swiss National Scientific Foundation (SNSF). Gilson Lázaro receives funding from the Norwegian Embassy programme for research. Preliminary results from civil ...

Angolans head to the polls Wednesday in what is expected to be the closest election since the country first allowed a multi-party vote in 1992. The key question is whether voters will once again pick ...

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 ...

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 ...

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola's ruling MPLA party has won a general election by taking 61.07 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said on Wednesday, making João Lourenço the next president of sub ...

Justin Pearce has received funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Angolans go to the polls on 24 August to vote in parliamentary elections. The leader of the party with the most seats in parliament ...

IT IS fitting that the black-and-red flag of Angola is hardly distinguishable from that of its ruling party. The People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has led the country since ...

Angola’s ruling MPLA party has won the country’s parliamentary elections, but lost ground to the opposition, the electoral commission said citing provisional results. The MPLA took 61.1 percent of the ...