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Angola's hidden succession crisis

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 ...
LUANDA, Angola (AP) – Preliminary results show that Angola’s ruling party has won 75 percent of the national vote, assuring President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, in power for 33 years, another five years ...
LUANDA, Angola (AP) – Forty percent of voters abstained from casting ballots in Angola’s legislative elections, the electoral commission said of a shocking rate for Africa that some blamed on cynicism ...
US veteran conservative lobbyist Duncan Sellars has been taken on by Angola’s opposition party, UNITA, in an effort to break the ruling party’s stranglehold ahead of the 2027 elections.
Angola's long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his MPLA party scored a landslide win on Saturday in an election criticised as one-sided and not credible by opponents and civil society ...
Angola’s ruling MPLA won this week’s election, a poll official announced Thursday, with party candidate Joao Lourenco now set to succeed President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos who has ruled for 38 years.