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The elections in Angola on Wednesday were won by the MPLA, the party of retiring president José Eduardo dos Santos. Independent

The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) will end on a wide-ranging election victory. The government party has now counted almost two thirds of the vote, supporting a little 65 percent of the electorate. So far, the main opposition party Unita has not received 25 percent. That's what the electoral spokesman said on Thursday evening in Luanda. The turnout was 77 percent.

At least 17 people were killed Friday because they were overrun by the inputs of an Angolan football stadium. Another dozen people were injured.

A separatist movement in Angola claims to have killed seventeen soldiers of the government army. On the side of the rebels would have fallen two deaths. The outbreak of violence occurred last weekend in Cabinda, the province where most of the oil is pumped from the ground.

The death toll from an outbreak of yellow fever in Angola has risen to 225. An estimated 1,600 people become infected with the virus. That made the Angolan Health Minister Luis Sambo on Tuesday.

An Angolan court sentenced Monday seventeen young activists to prison terms of 2 to 8.5 years of rebellion against the government of President José Eduardo dos Santos.

The number of deaths due to an outbreak of yellow fever in Angola has risen to 158. This has the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday. Last month, the death toll was still at fifty.

The President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos (73), holding it in his own words in 2018 finally it on. He is already almost forty years in power.

An Australian mining company in Angola has one of the largest diamond ever unearthed. Experts estimate the value of the gemstone converted approximately 13 million euros.