Angola

There is much with the Biden administration’s approach to Africa, beginning with its much-ballyhooed but ultimately disappointing U.S. Strategy Towards Sub-Saharan Africa document, which, once one got past the seemingly...

Angolan president Joao Lourenco praised the judgment of Angolan voters and committed to reforming the country’s economy during his second inauguration ceremony on Thursday, following a narrow victory over the...

Angola’s National Electoral Commission announced on Thursday that the dominant “People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola,” or MPLA, was almost certain to secure victory in the country’s most recent...

Election polls in Angola have closed, and vote counting begun. This appears to have been the most competitive presidential election in Angolan history, with incumbent leader Joao Lourenco of the...

U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken will take a five-nation tour across Africa and Asia from August 2-11. The senior official’s visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Africa’s chronic political volatility guarantees a constant demand for military hardware of all kinds—a demand that Russia’s defense sector continues to meet with a supply...

Here’s What You Need to Know: In the late 1990s, there was a seismic shift in the way governments waged war in Africa and across the globe. Bob Denard’s bloody antics...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Rosoboronexport’s success is part of Moscow’s larger strategy of establishing political, economic, and military inroads with a slew of African partners. Africa’s chronic political volatility...

The first peaceful transition of power in Angola took place in August, with the election of João Lourenço as the new president, replacing long-serving José Eduardo dos Santos, who led...

Fidel Castro is still dead. I say that only partway in jest, since the Cuban Americans I’ve spoken to this week are almost uneasy in their jubilation, as though El...

Sitting astride the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean and sees 30 percent of the world’s shipping traffic, Djibouti has become the center of...