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/ 13 December 2008
Angola’s parliamentary election results in September lacked transparency and were marred by serious organisational weaknesses, according to the EU.
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/ 15 October 2008
Angola’s ruling party called for greater fairness in the distribution of the country’s massive oil wealth on Wednesday.
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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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/ 17 September 2008
Angola’s electoral commission late on Tuesday reported the final results of this month’s legislative elections.
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/ 8 September 2008
Angola’s ruling MPLA on Monday savoured an overwhelming victory in the country’s first peacetime election, even with some votes still to be counted.
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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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/ 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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/ 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.
Campaigning for Angola’s first parliamentary elections since the end of a nearly three-decade civil war officially begins on Tuesday.
The United Nations will close its human rights office in Angola after the authorities there withdrew their cooperation, the office of the high commissioner said on Friday. Angola has ordered the office to cease its operations by the end of May after pulling out of talks to establish a formal agreement to regulate the rights body’s work in the country.
Angola’s government will go ahead with plans to disarm civilians possessing illegal firearms obtained mostly during the country’s 27-year civil war. The government won approval from the National Disarmament Commission, the Angop news agency quoted deputy commander of the National Police for Public Order, Paulo de Almeida, as saying.
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/ 14 February 2008
A high-level mission from Angola has visited Portugal to entice potential investors with business opportunities arising from the new-found stability in the south-western African nation, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. But foreign investors should forget about merely transferring profits abroad without leaving any benefits behind.
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/ 23 January 2008
Angola’s opposition Unita party accused members of the country’s ruling party of vandalising the tomb of Jonas Savimbi, the rebel leader who led a 27-year bush war against the government. Savimbi, who is seen as a freedom fighter by some Angolans but a war criminal by many others, was killed by government troops in 2002.
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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.
Angola is planning to privatise many of its more than 250 state-owned firms, but there are fears that the process could be marked by cronyism and cement the oil-rich nation’s reputation as one of Africa’s most corrupt. In an interview with Reuters, Angola’s secretary of state for public enterprises said there were too many state-owned companies.