LUANDA (Reuters) - José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola for nearly four decades, winning a brutal civil war and overseeing an oil-fuelled boom that did little to alleviate poverty, died on Friday ...

A two-year bridge-building project in Angola has reopened a vital road to a large area of the country’s isolated eastern Moxico province, destroyed during a 27-year civil war, the United Nations said ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales company Wide has acquired world sales rights to Angola-born Portuguese filmmaker Carlos Conceição’s Angolan War of Independence drama Tommy Guns, which made a ...

Teresa Nandulo (13) mothered her three siblings for three years after losing her father during Angola’s 27-year war and her own mother soon after. Reunited with relatives, she yearns for a role change ...

Angolan girls in front of a patriotic slogan on a wall. Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images Angolan president João Lourenço, who has been returned to power with a greatly ...

Since 2020, a number of African governments have distanced themselves from the United States and its allies while deepening ties with Russia and its Wagner Group mercenaries. Moscow has ramped up its ...

LISBON, Portugal — José Eduardo dos Santos, once one of Africa's longest-serving rulers who during almost four decades as president of Angola fought the continent's longest civil war and turned his ...

Portuguese infantry patrols in northern Angola peered at the skies last week and waited prayerfully for the end of the rains. In the third year of their campaign to quell a stubborn native revolt ...

KIMPESE, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 26 (UNHCR) - After 27 years of war in their homeland, Angolan refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are moving a step closer to home as ...

MONGU, Zambia, Oct. 23 (UNHCR) - The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday it had increased assistance to several thousand Angolans who fled to Zambia's Western province last week following fresh fighting ...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken finished a four-nation tour of Africa with a visit to Angola, site of major new U.S. investments, which may help counter China’s influence. By Michael Crowley ...