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 …
Official Angolan result gives ruling MPLA wafer thin win. On the streets the outcome isn’t believed: Adalberto Costa Junior, leader of Angola’s opposition party, The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) arrives to cast his vote. Photo by John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images Angola’s elections were, for the first time, a tight …
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 …