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LUANDA, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Angolans voted on Wednesday in a tight race in which the main opposition coalition has its best-ever chance of victory, as millions of youth left out of its oil-fuelled booms are expected to express frustration with nearly five decades of MPLA rule.

LUANDA (Reuters) - Two years ago, Francisco Mapanda and Arante Kivuvu were jobless during the COVID-19 pandemic so they started selling whiskey and cigarettes under a bridge in Angola's capital, Luanda.

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolans head to the polls next week in what is likely to be a tense standoff between a ruling party in power for nearly five decades and an opposition with growing appeal to a frustrated, impoverished youth.

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.

LISBON (Reuters) - Dania Silva is excited to be one of the thousands of Angolans abroad to be voting remotely for the first time in their country's election next week, though she wonders whether her vote will change anything.

By Francesco Guarascio JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The European Union is planning a five-fold increase in financial support to an African military missio...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said the ruling party African National Congress (ANC) had decided to retai...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said the ruling party African National Congress (ANC) had decided to retai...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Police are hunting for five attackers who burst into a bar in Soweto, South Africa, and killed 15 customers in a hail of at least 137 bullets over the weekend, the police minister said on Monday.