With no extradition treaty between Angola and Brazil, the politician continues to avoid arrest.
An Angolan teenager who is awaiting trial for allegedly insulting President José Eduardo dos Santos has started a hunger strike, says his lawyer.
Angola has suggested that trade between it and its former coloniser could be at risk after it emerged that Portugal was investigating its officials.
Critics have attacked Angolan president for ‘cynical’ answers he gave in his first television interview in 22 years
Some $750-million is missing from Angola’s treasury from a debt repayment deal with Russia, a report by a corruption watchdog group has revealed.
President Jacob Zuma is visiting Angola to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries, said the international relations department.
Jose dos Santos’s supporters brush off the allegations of nepotism and say his kids are well educated and simply want to be involved in their country.
The Mail & Guardian takes a look at the continent’s new and not-so-new leaders who were elected into office this year.
Your article "Angola’s Dos Santos wants another term to rebuild" (August 31) got me thinking.
In post-election Angola, the ruling party can no longer count on threat to retain the hearts of voters.
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ ruling party has won 73% of the national vote assuring his government, in power for 32 years, another five years.
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos held a massive lead in Angola’s general election with more than 70% of the vote counted.
Electoral officials on Saturday were tallying the ballots in Angola’s third polls since independence, with the first results expected late in the day.
Angola’s president has asked the country to give him five more years in power to further his drive to rebuild the country after its 27-year civil war.
The opposition, which could garner the youth vote, says the election will not be free and fair.
With the president’s face on jumbo screens, T-shirts and helium blimps, thousands of Angolans rallied to show their support ahead of the polls.
As Angolans prepare to go to the polls on Friday, the ruling MPLA reminds them of the rewards of peace and boasts of its reconstruction achievements.
Much has changed since the last election and Angolan citizens will not take any vote-rigging lying down when they go to the polls.
Only nine Angolan parties and coalitions of the 27 that put themselves forward will be permitted to battle it out in upcoming parliamentary elections.
Angola has set August 31 as the date for elections likely to return President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his ruling MPLA to power.
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/ 25 November 2011
Not so long ago thousands of Angolans were fleeing for Portugal. Now the tables have turned.
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/ 21 October 2011
Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos announced this week that his country would go to the polls at the end of 2012.
Protests on the streets of Luanda show that young people are increasingly willing to speak out against the ageing government.
Angolan authorities arrested 24 people at an anti-government youth rally, were several protesters, journalists and police were injured, reports say.
Angola’s long standing ‘unelected’ leader José dos Santos may not stand in next year’s election.
Angolan authorities on Monday arrested five people, including journalists, ahead of a planned protest against the rule of José Eduardo dos Santos.
Increased trade and investment ‘will lead to better regional development for all’.
Angola and South Africa signed five bilateral agreements during Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s first state visit to South Africa.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos started his historic first state visit to South Africa aimed at ending decades-long enmities.
Official visit signals an end to a standoff that goes back a long way.
Angola celebrates 35 years of independence after banishing a long chapter of civil war to the history books, but is still divided by huge wealth gaps.
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/ 11 October 2008
Members of France’s political and business elite went on trial this week charged with involvement in the illegal sale of weapons to Angola.