Angola prepares for new President after four decades
Angola, a former Portuguese colony and the second largest oil producer in Africa, is preparing for the likely election of defence minister Jo ão Lourenço as president as the country's ruling MPLA takes lead in electoral results. Provisional results from Wednesday's election showed that the MPLA received 64 .57% of the vote, according to the Angolan electoral commission . However, the country's main opposition party , Unita Party contested the results after learning from the commission's count that it had only obtained 24.04% of the ballots. The election of João Lourenço would end nearly four decades of rule by José Eduardo Dos Santos, who decided not to stand for re-election this time, although he was to remain in control of the MPLA party. The outgoing president had been in power since 1979, making him Africa's second- longest serving head of state after Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea. Angola plunged into civil war after achieving its independence from Por...