Angola's main opposition party Friday blasted the country's new constitution, which strengthens the president's powers, saying it creates a "state of tyranny" in ...
Angola's parliament was set to approve the country's constitution next week, state media reported Wednesday, in a move which should end confusion over ...
Angola on Wednesday condemned the outcome of a high-profile arms smuggling trial in a French court, which convicted all but six of the 42 defendants, including the son of an ex-president. "This trial was unbalanced and unjust, tied up with political considerations ...
A French court slapped jail terms Tuesday on the main players in a network that smuggled arms to war-torn Angola and included an ex-minister and the son of the late president Francois Mitterrand. Russian-Israeli tycoon Arkady Gaydamak was convicted in absentia for ...
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday urged Angola's president to use his influence in the region to rescue Harare's unity government, which he boycotted last week. "What I said to him was, they have to ensure that this baby is nursed ...
LUANDA (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday his party's boycott of government does not terminate a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe. "Let me clarify, we have not withdrawn from government, we are still in government," Tsvangirai, head ...
LUANDA (Reuters) - There were no military bands to mark Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' three decades in power this week. Just another day in the life of Africa's second longest serving -- and perhaps most enigmatic -- leader. The 67-year-old ...
Angola's President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos quietly marked 30 years in power Monday, with no public celebrations about the milestone reached by Africa's second longest serving leader. State-owned daily Jornal de Angola, which most days carries a picture of the 67-year-old leader ...
Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos celebrates 30 years in power on Monday amid delays over a new constitution that are likely to extend his marathon rule of Africa?s top oil producer. Following the death of Gabonese president Omar Bongo in June, ...
Opposition calls for a three-day national shutdown in Gabon appeared to have fallen on deaf ears Monday as businesses in the two main cities operated normally. Traffic was less dense in the capital Libreville but markets, shops, businesses and public administration offices ...
Angola's long-awaited presidential vote could be put off until 2012 as the ruling party debates how to conduct the election, Human Rights Watch warned Thursday. Oil-rich Angola held its first parliamentary election for 16 years in September 2008, and a presidential poll ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday pressed for progress in two African nations recovering from war, calling for an end to mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo after winning a pledge by Angola to hold elections. Clinton was ...
