Workers want to raise the minimum wage from $38 to $288, but the state has rejected this, proposing $45
Although the government has attempted to improve law enforcement, criminal prosecutions against officers who commit violations remain rare
The MPLA managed to retain power in the recent elections but to win the next elections it will have to introduce economic and political reforms
Former apartheid collaborator Unita has polled well, but will it be enough to unseat the long-ruling MPLA?
The Angolan autocrat, president from 1979 to 2017, built up the wealth of his family and that of his generals at the expense of the citizens
Angola’s João Lourenço will be sworn in on Tuesday as the president but who is the man who ran on the ticket of the MPLA?
The country is on edge over the death of another activist – and the state’s apparent glee.
Electoral officials on Saturday were tallying the ballots in Angola’s third polls since independence, with the first results expected late in the day.
The opposition, which could garner the youth vote, says the election will not be free and fair.
Angola’s main opposition party on Wednesday accused the government of seeking to delay a promised presidential election.
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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.
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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/ 10 September 2008
Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos’s MPLA party scored a landslide parliamentary election victory on Wednesday with nearly 82% of the vote.
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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.
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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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/ 1 September 2008
The most significant results of next week’s Angolan elections could be at the bottom of the table.
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.
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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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/ 20 November 1987
The mutiny is the first significant sign of discontent among South African and allied forces with the invasion of southern Angola.