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/ 4 November 2009
Angola kicked off a public debate on Wednesday about a new Constitution that is likely to continue President José Eduardo dos Santos’s grip on power.
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/ 19 October 2009
Morgan Tsvangirai will this week meet the SADC to pressure Robert Mugabe to resolve disputes in Zimbabwe’s unity government, an aide said on Monday.
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/ 14 September 2009
Angola is evicting whole communities to meet the
president’s promise to build a million new homes
by 2012, writes Niren Tolsi
President Jacob Zuma signed on Thursday an oil agreement with his Angolan counterpart during a visit aimed at strengthening economic ties.
SA President Jacob Zuma travels to Angola in a bid to strengthen ties between the continent’s biggest economy and one of its top oil producers.
Angola’s main opposition party on Wednesday accused the government of seeking to delay a promised presidential election.
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/ 23 February 2009
Angola must ensure failings during last year’s parliamentary election are not repeated at a presidential vote expected in 2009.
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/ 14 October 2008
Angola’s ruling MPLA will set out an ambitious plan on Wednesday to lift millions out of poverty and spur continued economic growth.
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/ 12 October 2008
Angola hopes to bury an arms case now before French courts in which its president is suspected of receiving millions in kickbacks.
Forty-two people including the son of late French president Francois Mitterrand go on trial on Monday over a vast ”arms-to-Angola” scandal.
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/ 14 September 2008
The MPLA’s election victory in Angola, although expected, was larger than predicted, writes John Grobler.
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/ 8 September 2008
The leader of Angola’s largest opposition party said on Sunday he was contesting the results of the country’s parliamentary election.
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/ 7 September 2008
With nearly 55% of the ballots counted, Angola’s ruling MPLA seemed headed for a massive victory in the first parliamentary elections in 16 years.
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/ 7 September 2008
Angola’s ruling party has claimed victory in the oil-rich nation’s chaotic landmark election despite opposition attempts to have the result cancelled.
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/ 5 September 2008
Angola’s first election in 16 years is a disaster of poor planning and insufficient infrastructure in the capital, says an EU observer.
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/ 5 September 2008
Angolans go to the polls this month for
the first time in 16 years. John Grobler reports from Luanda.
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/ 4 September 2008
José Eduardo dos Santos, a soccer fan who has become one of Africa’s longest serving leaders, shows little sign of retiring after 30 years.
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/ 4 September 2008
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Wednesday promised a government shake-up if his ruling MPLA wins Friday’s landmark elections.
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/ 3 September 2008
About 8,3-million Angolans will go the polls on Friday in the first election since independence in 1975 to be held under peaceful conditions.
The repressive climate in Angola casts a shadow on the coming elections.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Monday called on Angolans to show ”respect and tolerance” in the lead-up to September elections.
Campaigning for Angola’s first parliamentary elections since the end of a nearly three-decade civil war officially begins on Tuesday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Angola on Friday in a bid to improve relations following an arms scandal that provoked tensions between the two countries. Sarkozy was to hold talks with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Friday morning at the presidential palace.
Zimbabwe braced on Sunday for the return home of the country’s opposition leader, who has vowed to face veteran President Robert Mugabe in a run-off election despite the risk of further violence. Morgan Tsvangirai, who beat Mugabe in a first round of voting in March, is expected in Harare in the next few days.
Armed riot police raided the headquarters of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Friday and detained scores of people, officials said. Dozens of riot police detained about 100 MDC supporters who were bundled into a crowded police bus before being taken away, a witness said.
Post-election violence in Zimbabwe could reach genocidal proportions without intervention from the international community, the country’s church leaders warned on Tuesday. ”We warn the world that if nothing is done to help the people of Zimbabwe, we shall soon be witnessing genocide similar to that experienced in Kenya,” they said.
Rescuers on Sunday pushed on with efforts to find more survivors from the rubble of the Angolan police headquarters that collapsed in the capital. The disaster is feared to have claimed seven lives. The national police commissioner said he was optimistic that more people would be found alive.
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma has vowed to create monuments for the fallen Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldiers who died in the Cuito Cuanavale battle in Angola, he said on Monday. Zuma said it was agreed that a committee would be established to identify the graves of ”our fallen MK heroes and heroines”.
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/ 27 December 2007
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Thursday that the oil-rich African nation would hold its delayed parliamentary elections on September 5 and 6 next year, the state-run Angop news agency reported. An estimated eight million Angolans are expected to vote in the election. The country has not held a national poll since a disastrous 1992 presidential race.
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/ 26 November 2007
Angola opposition on Monday denounced what it called government ”strategy” to delay legislative elections scheduled for next year. In a statement, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) said that acts of ”intimidation” and ”increased attempts to curtail individual and collective freedoms in Angola” were evidence of the alleged strategy.
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/ 1 November 2007
Angola could hold national elections as early as May next year, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos was quoted as saying on Thursday. ”The president of the republic will likely call the elections for the period between May and August, and possibly September of 2008,” state newspaper Jornal de Angola quoted him as saying at the end of a visit to Mozambique.
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/ 31 October 2007
European Union and African ministers met in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday to decide whether to risk a diplomatic storm by inviting Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to an EU-Africa summit. Britain has said it will boycott the proposed summit in Lisbon if Mugabe attends. Some African nations have said they will stay away if the Zimbabwean leader is not invited.