Speaking after the talks, President Oligui Nguema said Gabon was looking to benefit from Angola’s experience in tourism, ...

LUANDA, Angola, Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his significant contributions to peace ...

The date of Angola’s upcoming general elections was announced on 3 June: 24 August. Although the vote should result in the re-election of current head of state João Lourenço to another five-year term, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joao Lourenco, presidential candidate for the ruling MPLA party, speaks at an election rally in Malanje, Angola, August 17, 2017.

A leopard cannot change its spots, the saying goes. In Angola, João Lourenço is that leopard. The 67-year-old president is four years into his term, after taking the reins from José Eduardo dos Santos ...

Appearances can be deceiving. Beneath the taciturn, unremarkable exterior of the model apparatchik he once was, lies a shrewd, formidable strategist – undeniably intelligent and highly articulate. The ...

Angola: Has President Lourenço delivered an ‘economic miracle’? When João Lourenço’s took over as president, it marked a turning point in Angolan history. In September 2017, after 38 years of rule by ...

It was a quietly effective political stunt. In mid-July, just before the end of the parliamentary year, Angola’s main opposition party, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA), led ...

Angola’s President João Lourenço (JLo) started off his presidential term in 2017 by saying that he would reduce the roles of the state, the armed forces and the national oil company, Sonangol, in the ...

President João Lourenço reaffirmed on Monday that the government will continue to invest heavily in expanding the electricity and drinking water supply throughout the country to guarantee economic ...

President João Lourenço announced that the government is working on a project to build a road linking the province of Bie to the municipality of Luau in the Moxico Leste province. The road is designed ...