Unlike Mugabe, Dos Santos has children who can look after him when he slows down
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled Angola since 1979, will not contest the August 23 election
Three African elections in the coming month are supposed to show these countries are democracies. But that is about more than just voting.
Three different countries with three different democracies are headed to elections in August. Simon Allison attempts to summarise them.
Supported by a large majority of lawmakers, the new bill sets out limited circumstances in which the powerful officials
State-owned Sonangol has exclusive rights to Angola’s oil economy, making it a plum target for politicians.
Booming, oil-rich Angola has become a refuge for Portugal’s jobless, while Luanda’s elite take advantage of EU troubles to buy up property in Lisbon.
Three of Angola’s eight opposition parties are formally contesting the August 31 election results.
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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.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his MPLA party headed on Saturday for an overwhelming win in a poll criticised as not credible.
Electoral officials on Saturday were tallying the ballots in Angola’s third polls since independence, with the first results expected late in the day.
Once the stronghold of the feared Unita rebels, Angola’s second city Huambo has emerged as a key battlefield in Friday’s general elections.
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.
