Activists are calling for a stay-at-home strike as they prepare for the next protest over rising fuel and transport prices.

NAIROBI — Results from Angola’s election show the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola or MPLA will maintain its nearly half-century in power by a slim majority.

People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) supporters gather as Angola incumbent President João Lourenço addresses an elections rally in Luanda on July 23, 2022.

The governing party in Angola has claimed victory in this week’s election after the electoral commission put its vote at 51 percent, but the leader of the main opposition coalition rejected the ...

The candidate of the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola party, known by its Portuguese acronym MPLA, incumbent President Joao Lourenco, 68, who is seeking a second five-year ...

He is facing a popular opponent, Adalberto Costa Júnior, who is uniting those who are dissatisfied with the regime. Although there are eight candidates in the 24 August general elections in Angola, it ...

Your premium access has ended, but the best of Nation.Africa is still within reach. ... The MPLA, a former liberation movement, has ruled Angola since independence from Portugal in 1975.

The ruling party of Angola is expected to win the country's general election, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) said on Thursday. With 97% of votes counted, CNE put the People's Movement for ...

Forty-seven years after it first gained power, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) is expected to once again return to government.

Analysis - In Angola's Malanje province, the buildings of Camalundu stand abandoned amid open fields. On one of them, the fragmented words "IAN NGOYI" recall a figure little-known in ...