LISBON (Reuters) - Angola's MPLA party named Manuel Vicente, the former head of state oil firm Sonangol, as No. 2 on a list of party candidates for an August 31 election on Wednesday, a clear sign he ...

LUANDA, Angola (AP) — Angolans are anxiously watching the vote counting in their election race between the ruling MPLA party and the opposition UNITA. With 86% of votes counted, the MPLA has the lead ...

LUANDA, Angola (AP) – President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ ruling party has won 73 percent of the national vote assuring his government, in power for 32 years, another five years in power. With 85 ...

LUANDA — Angolan President João Lourenço on Saturday took the helm of the ruling MPLA party, winning unopposed a leadership election that marks the end of Jose Eduardo dos Santos' almost 40-year ...

(Corrects paragraph 11 of Aug. 26 story to make clear Semanario Angolense ran editorials with reasons to vote for several political parties, not just the MPLA) By Henrique Almeida LUANDA, Aug 26 ...

The MPLA, which has ruled since Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975, is expected to defeat opposition parties. Joao Lourenco, the expected successor to Angola's longtime President Jose Eduardo ...

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos's ruling MPLA party scored a landslide parliamentary election victory today with nearly 82% of the vote, provisional final results showed in the oil rich ...

When former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos stepped down as leader of the country's ruling party Saturday, it concluded a career dominated by an unrelentingly authoritarian style. "This is ...

Angola's long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his MPLA party scored a landslide win on Saturday in an election criticised as one-sided and not credible by opponents and civil society ...

Lourenco read an oath in which he vowed "on my honour to devote myself" to the role of president, as he took power. Lourenco read an oath in which he vowed "on my honour to devote myself" to the role ...