Angola’s untold history: archive project explores LGBTIQ+ lives and struggles: As I write these lines, I mourn the passing of Carlos Fernandes, a leading queer activist and organiser in Angola. Carlos was found dead in his home earlier this year under circumstances that are still being investigated. For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer …
Namibia and Angola’s remote Ovahimba mountains reveal a haven for unique plants – new survey: The Kaokoveld region, covering north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, is one of the remotest areas in southern Africa. Although it’s extremely dry, it is a centre of species endemism: many species occur only there and nowhere else on earth. New …
Painted messages in Angola’s abandoned liberation army camps offer a rare historical record: Lilian Ngoyi, one of the leaders of the 1956 women’s march against apartheid, is immortalised on an abandoned building. Justin Pearce In Angola’s Malanje province, the buildings of Camalundu stand abandoned amid open fields. On one of them, the fragmented words “IAN …
Angola’s peatlands trap carbon and clean the region’s water – how we mapped this newly found landscape: Ask most people what they picture when thinking about natural “carbon sinks” – ecosystems that absorb and store greenhouse gases – and they’ll probably describe a forest. Reforestation is a common feature of climate change plans. But there’s …
Angola’s MPLA has been in power for nearly 50 years. The big challenges they must fix: 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 reduced majority, faces the …
Angola’s 2022 election: an unfair contest the ruling MPLA is sure to win: 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 leader of the party with the most seats in parliament …
Angola’s Eduardo dos Santos: an unlikely leader known for his ‘judicious’ use of violence: The late former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos. Agência Brasil, used under Creative Commons Licence , CC BY-NC José Eduardo dos Santos, the former Angolan president who died on 8 July 2022 five years after relinquishing power, was an unlikely …
Angola’s Eduardo dos Santos: a divisive figure in life – and in death: Jose Eduardo dos Santos. epa-efe/Tiago There is unlikely to be consensus on what José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola’s former longtime president who died earlier this month in Barcelona, Spain, will represent in the memory of Angolans. While he has been credited for …
Angola’s Dos Santos failed to provide a moral example and stop the plunder of the state: Former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos. EFE-EPA/Manuel de Almeida Silence is what comes to define the life and the death of the former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos (1942-2022), who died recently at a hospital in Barcelona, …
Angola’s ruling party faces united opposition in upcoming poll. But it’s pushing back: President João Lourenço is campaigning for a second term. Gilson Lázaro The election of Angolan President João Lourenço in 2017 raised hopes of a shift from the authoritarian and corrupt era of his predecessor. This was thanks to the new, more open …
Angola’s president has little to show for his promise of a break with the authoritarian past: Joao Lourenco, the President of Angola. EFE-EPA/Clemens Bilan It’s four years since João Lourenço was sworn in as Angola’s third president. He succeeded former president José Eduardo dos Santos, who had governed the southern African nation for 38 years. …
Angola’s Constitution is under review: but a great deal has been left undone: President of Angola Joao Lourenco in Berlin, Germany in 2018. The powers of the president remain intact. Photo by Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Angola’s parliament recently approved a bill to review the country’s constitution 11 years after its promulgation. President João Lourenço …
Angola’s peculiar electoral system needs reforms. How it could be done: People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) supporters at a campaign rally. The party has run the country since independence in 1975. Photo by Osvaldo Silva / AFP) via Getty Images. Angola has a unique electoral system. Its main peculiarity is that it …
Why COVID-19 can’t be blamed for Angola’s failure to have local governance: Joao Lourenco, president of Angola. His promise to hold municipal elections this year has come to naught. Chesenot/Getty Images Angola is the only southern African nation that has not introduced a system of elected local government. This, 45 years after it made constitutional …
Angola’s ruling party regains power but faces legitimacy questions: Supporters of Joao Lourenco and the ruling MPLA during an election campaign rally in Luanda. EPA/Manuel de Almeida The swearing in of the new Angolan parliament marks the first time in 38 years that Angola has a new president. João Lourenço, who Angolans refer to as …
South Africa in the news: Twin crises expose Angola’s failure to kick its oil habit: “For people bringing in anything from the United States or South Africa it’s very difficult,” said 26-year-old Nadio Medina, who used to import used cars from South Africa. Now he sells eggs wholesale to pavement burger stalls. In an unusually …