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column Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was a passionate believer in African unity, and a living link with the historic Pan-African movement which had promoted solidarity among people of African descent everywhere against colonialism and racism. Earlier Pan-Africanists had identified … read more »
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ABBA MAHMOOD, leadership.ng On February 13, 1976, one of Nigeria’s most dynamic heads of state to date, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed, was assassinated by a dissident section of the Nigeria Army. He was head of state for only 200 days … read more »
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President José Eduardo dos Santos is to be sworn President of Angola, for a five-year term in office, Wednesday, following the Angolan Constitutional Court’s announcement that all appeals presented by opposition parties were dismissed as groundless. The official final results … read more »
By Justin Pearce The tent and the table that made up the polling station looked very small in the middle of the expanse of tarmac on Luanda’s Largo da Família. In one corner, journalists addressed their cameras against a backdrop … read more »
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Tagged Abel Chivukuvuku, Angola, CASA-CE, CNE, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, José Eduardo dos Santos, Luanda, MPLA, Unita
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By Alsir Sidahmed The recently concluded election in Angola is a non-event given the fact that the ruling party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), led by President Jose Eduardos Dos Santos was expected to win anyway, … read more »
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Islamists continue a winning streak in the cities of Mali. A few days ago the city of Duentsa was seized by the militants. The African country has been plunged into ethnic conflicts since the fall of Gaddafi in Libya. Immediate … read more »
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Islamism, Mali, MPLA, United States, West Africa
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President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ ruling party has won 74 percent of the national vote, assuring his government, in power for 33 years, another five years in power. With more than 73 percent of the votes counted from Friday’s poll, … read more »
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Tagged Angola, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, Luanda, MPLA, President of Angola, Santos, Unita
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By Jacey Fortin, ibtimes Analysis One of Africa’s quietest dictators will be put to the test when the country of Angola goes to the polls on Friday. There is little dispute about the expected outcome — for President Jose Eduardo … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, Angola, Angola 2012 Elections, Dos Santos, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, MPLA, President of Angola, Santos, Unita
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David Smith ,guardian.co.uk Dos Santos, expected to remain president after Friday’s election, has avoided external criticism during his 33 years in power. He has an authoritarian streak a mile wide, say his foes, and has ruled his country longer than … read more »
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Tagged Agostinho Neto, Angola, Dos Santos, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, MPLA, New, Rafael Marques, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
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IF YOU are an ageing dictator, few birthday presents beat a certain election victory. José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola’s president, celebrated his 70th birthday three days before the poll on August 31st that his party, the Popular Movement for the … read more »
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Tagged Abel Chivukuvuku, Angola, angola elections, Election, Indepth Africa Magazine, José Eduardo dos Santos, Luanda, MPLA, Santos, Unita
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Voting has closed in Angola’s third election since independence from Portugal in 1976. Election observers quoted by the Associated Press said there had been some irregularities with reports of voters being unable to cast ballots at a number of polling … read more »
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Luanda – Electoral officials on Saturday were tallying the ballots in Angola’s third polls since independence in 1975, with the first results expected late in the day. Angolan state television on Saturday broadcast images of the vote from across the … read more »
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Tagged Angola, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaías Samakuva, José Eduardo dos Santos, Luanda, MPLA, President of Angola, Unita
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LUANDA — Angola on Saturday tallied ballots from its second peacetime elections, expected to keep President Jose Eduardo dos Santos in power despite demands from the poor for a fairer slice of the nation’s oil wealth. Counting began shortly after … read more »
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Tagged Abel Chivukuvuku, Angola, Angola 2012 Elections, CASA-CE, Elections, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, Luanda, MPLA, President of Angola, Unita
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Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa analysis It has been a long time coming but the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally approved regulations under Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, … read more »
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Tagged Angola, angola elections 2012, European Union, ExxonMobil, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, MPLA, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, Unita, United States
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With President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s face plastered on jumbo screens, T-shirts and helium blimps, thousands of Angolans rallied Wednesday in the final campaign show of one of Africa’s most powerful rulers. Supporters came in buses, mini-vans and a fleet … read more »
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Tagged Angola, Dos Santos, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, Luanda, MPLA, Santos, Unita
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opinion The 19th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) held between July 15 and 16 at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The session witnessed the dramatic emergence of the South African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the … read more »
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Rafael Marques de Morais On September 3, 2011, up to six armed men surrounded youth protest leader ‘Pandita Nehru’ nearby Independence Square, in Luanda, where he and several others planned to hold a protest that morning. The assailants took him … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Cazenga, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Luanda, MPLA, Range Rover
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A group of former presidential guards had planned to march towards the presidential palace on May 27 in protest against the social and economic conditions in which they were living. The date is filled with symbolism. In 1977, a march … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Agostinho Neto, Angola, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Luanda, MPLA, National Liberation Front of Angola, Protest, Santos, Unita
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Angola’s Supreme Court has annulled the appointment of the country’s electoral commission chief, a nomination which the opposition had criticised but which the ruling MPLA party defended as impartial, state news agency Angop reported on Thursday. Angola, Africa’s second-largest oil … read more »
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By Eric Cooper Angola is a country in serious transition. Leading indicators (from the admittedly scarce data available) suggest change has been afoot since the end of the civil war in 2002 – shortly after the death of rebel leader … read more »
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BBC: There may be much that is shiny and new in Angola, but 10 years after the end of the war many ghosts remain, as Louise Redvers reports for BBC Focus on Africa magazine. It is a milestone that at … read more »
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Luanda – Angola’s President Jose Eduardo dos Santos will seek a new term with former state oil company head Manuel Vicente as his vice president in September polls, a source in the ruling MPLA said on Saturday. The southern African … read more »
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Tagged Angola, Dos Santos, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, MPLA, Nigeria, President of Angola, Santos, Sonangol Group
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This is a brief narrative of the power struggles between the president and his own party since the establishment of a multiparty system in 1991. It features deployment of constitutional coups, patronage and legal measures to address such internal rifts, … read more »
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December 29, 2011 by benim
Angola is preparing the necessary legal mechanisms to hold a well organised, transparent and fair parliamentary election in late 2012, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Wednesday. The election will be only the third in oil-producing Angola after it … read more »
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Tagged Angola, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, Lisbon, MPLA, President of Angola, Unita
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Lisbon – Angola’s political parties reached a deal on a new electoral law on Friday, ending months of negotiations over who will organise a general election next year in Africa’s second largest oil producer, state news agency Angop reported. Angop … read more »
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Tagged Angola, Angop, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, José Eduardo dos Santos, MPLA, Paulo Kassoma, Unita
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Lisbon – Angolan authorities have used force to suppress peaceful demonstrations and blocked journalists from covering protest rallies in the run-up to an election next year, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. A burgeoning youth movement has this year organised … read more »
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November 17, 2011 by benim
Lisbon – Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Thursday he remains available for any mission decided by his MPLA party, signalling he is ready to lead the party in a general election scheduled for the third quarter of … read more »
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October 18, 2011 by benim
Luanda – The president of oil-rich Angola on Tuesday denied his country was a dictatorship but admitted there was a need for more social dialogue after a series of unprecedented anti-government protests. “There is no base whatsoever to the claim … read more »
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Angola’s main opposition party UNITA plans to hold a leadership contest in December with its head, Isaias Samakuva, facing calls for his resignation, state news agency Angop said on Thursday. Angop said Samakuva announced a leadership congress would be held … read more »
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September 26, 2011 by benim
Angolan police on Sunday blocked about 100 protesters from marching through the capital, said Portugal’s state news agency, in the second youth rally in under a month demanding President Jose Eduardo dos Santos relinquish power after 32 years. Portugal’s Lusa … read more »
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