The leader of the main opposition coalition has rejected the results of last week’s election in Angola in which the governing party claimed victory after the electoral commission put its vote at 51%. Joao Lourenco was returned for a second term as Angola’s president in elections that saw the Popular Movement for the Liberation of […]
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State of Angola’s economy taking centre stage in the polls
After the last decades of civil war, an oil boom, corruption scandals, the state of Angola’s economy will be one of the biggest and most decisive issues when the country’s citizens go to the polls on Wednesday (24 August). Millions of Angolan youths are voting for the first time in the country’s 5th election since […]

