Angola

The governing party in Angola has claimed victory in this week’s election after the electoral commission put its vote at 51 percent, but the leader of the main opposition coalition rejected the results. Fewer than half of Angola’s registered voters turned out

Angola’s President João Lourenço has apologised to victims and families of those killed in the May 1977 massacre and asked for forgiveness on the government’s behalf. Thousands, including many of the country’s young intellectuals and party activists, were imprisoned, tortured and killed