May Afrobarometer News Today

Angola, Africa’s second-largest oil producer and one of its largest economies, goes to the polls on Wednesday.

By Rachel Savage and Catarina Demony LONDON/LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolan voters will choose next Wednesday between a party thats been in power for nearly five decades and its main opponent for even longer, in what looks like the closest ever election in Africas second-biggest oil producer. WHO ARE THE MAIN PLAYERS? President João Lourenço of the MPLA, who has made reforming the corruption-plagued southern African country his priority since taking office in 2017, faces Adalberto Costa Júnior of ...

LONDON/LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolan voters will choose next Wednesday between a party that's been in power for nearly five decades and its main opponent for even longer, in what looks like the closest ever election in Africa's second-biggest oil producer.

Angolan voters will choose next Wednesday between a party thats been in power for nearly five decades and its main opponent for even longer, in what looks like the closest ever election in Africas

The pandemic not only limited campaigning, but laid bare the country’s deep economic challenges.