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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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/ 6 September 2008
Voting in Angola’s parliamentary election resumed on Saturday for an unscheduled second day.
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/ 6 September 2008
Angola’s main opposition leader said late on Friday the electoral process had ”collapsed” as he joined smaller parties in calling for a new vote.
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/ 6 September 2008
Blessed with natural resources of oil, diamonds, and rich agricultural land, Anglola has the potential to become one of the richest nations worldwide.
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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 voted on Friday in their first peacetime elections, with the ruling left-wing MPLA expected to keep a firm grip on the war-ravaged country.
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/ 5 September 2008
Angola’s economy may be booming on the back of high oil prices and strong diamond exports, but unemployment stands at about 65%.
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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.
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/ 3 September 2008
Angolan political parties were set to wrap up an election campaign on Wednesday as the country prepared for its first peacetime election on Friday.
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/ 3 September 2008
Driving in Luanda requires nerves of steel, nuts of tungsten and a head like a stubborn mule.
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/ 3 September 2008
Patrons of the upmarket restaurants on Angola’s Ilha de Luanda dine on crayfish and carpaccio, refreshed by the breeze off the lagoon.
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/ 2 September 2008
Rafael Savimbi, son of late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, sees the country’s first post-civil war elections as a chance for national unity.
A dark grey limousine pulls up at the Miami Beach bar. From the back door, a woman’s slender leg emerges. But its owner has her entrance ruined.
For the past 30 years, Jose Vilomba (47) has walked barefoot on one of Africa’s most fertile valleys using his hands and a shovel to plant vegetables.
Intimidation of Angola’s opposition threatens chances of a fair vote in the September parliamentary election, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.
Angolan police have detained a group of opposition activists ahead of landmark elections next month.
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.
Authorities in Angola have promised to fight speculation in the Luanda real-estate market, which has boosted house prices as high as -million.
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, almost 40% of Angolans use water from an unsafe source.
It looks like a contraption out of a science fiction movie, with its heavy-duty hammer and chains, and it is used for destruction — of the best kind.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos confirmed on Wednesday that the country’s first parliamentary elections since the end of a 27-year civil war will be held on September 5.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is to send a beefed-up observer mission for Zimbabwe’s run-off election next month to ensure "greater transparency", Angola’s Foreign Minister was quoted as saying on Monday. Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been lobbying the 14-nation SADC to send more observers.
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.
The death toll from the collapse of a police squad headquarters in Angola’s capital this weekend rose to 30 on Tuesday as rescuers scoured the rubble for bodies, state media said. Another 145 people pulled out of the debris are still receiving treatment in several hospitals in Luanda.
Rescuers have found six more bodies buried under a collapsed police building in the Angolan capital, Luanda, bringing the death toll to 21, the head of the civil protection service said on Monday. He said 147 people were rescued from the ruins of the national criminal investigation department building in Luanda.
Angolan rescuers brought out seven more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed police criminal investigation headquarters, bringing the death toll to 15, state media said on Monday. The victims — all women — were found in the women’s detection unit which was the worst hit when the seven-storey building collapsed in the capital Luanda.
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.