What’s at stake in Angola’s election?
The People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has run the country for almost half a century, but could change be on the way?
On Wednesday 24 August, Angola will head to the polls.
The two frontrunners are current president, João Lourenço, from the MPLA, who will be seeking his second term in office and Adalberto Costa Júnior, representing the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
These two groups have had a rivalry that has dominated Angola’s politics since independence in 1975 and battled for power during a civil war that ended in 2002.
While it’s been the MPLA in power for nearly half a century, political analysts say that this will be the country’s closest election to date, with Angola’s young population looking for change.
So what’s at stake in this year’s election? Alan Kasujja speaks to journalist Israel Campos and Claudio Silva, a political commentator in the capital Luanda.
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