For the first time in 38 years, tomorrow Angolans will have a new president.
Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the country’s long-time leader, announced in December 2016, that he would not seek re-election and, in his place, João Lourenço, Angola’s defense minister, has been chosen by the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) to seek the presidency. Dos Santos, 74, is said to have health issues. In May, after a prolonged absence, the government confirmed dos Santos was in Spain for one of his “regular health checks” and his daughter later was forced to deny reports of his death.
Given the MLPA’s dominance in Angolan politics—the party has ruled Angola since its independence from Portugal in 1975—Lourenço is expected to win the parliamentary elections.
But for the first time in decades, opposition parties believe they’ve got an outside shot at power. A pollcommissioned by the presidency predicts the ruling party will only secure 38% of the votes while National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the main opposition party, will receive 32%. CASA-CE, another party, is projected to win 26%. More damning, 91% of the more than 9,000 poll respondents said MPLA’s current leadership does not act in the best interest of Angolans. In 2012, the MPLA received 72% of the vote; in 2008, it received 82% of the the total votes.

Information reaching LOADEDCHUKS from Quartz Africa has it that Whoever wins, dos Santos and his family are is likely to retain significant power.
Last month, the government passed new laws which prevent the next president from firing the military, police, and intelligence chiefs. Dos Santos will continue as leader of the MPLA while his daughter Isabel will stay in charge of Sonangol, the state oil company, after being appointed in June 2016, and Jose Filomeno, dos Santos’ son, will remain in charge of Angola’s $5 billion sovereign wealth fund. In June, Dos Santos was granted a seat on the Council of the Republic, a presidential advisory body whose members enjoy immunity from prosecution.
Lourenço has campaigned on anti-corruption measures in line with his hardline stance. In the late 1980s, as governor of Benguela province, Lourenço jailed some members of his own party for corruption.
The winning party will need to defuse anger at what is perceived to be large-scale corruption among Angola’s elite. Despite its vast oil wealth—Angola is Africa’s second largest oil producer—inequality remains high. Much of Angola’s development is concentrated in Luanda, its capital city, which is so littered with lush hotels and apartments that it is considered to be the most expensive city in the world for exert patriates. Meanwhile, infrastructure in the rest of the country is poor.
The 2016 Africa Prosperity Report by the Legatum Institute found that Angola has been “under-delivering” prosperity to its citizens. That reality has gotten worse over the past two years as oil prices have dipped, slowing the country’s growth. To cope with the fall in revenue, the government cut essential servicesincluding waste collection services. A deadly yellow fever outbreak which killed more than 400 people (pdf) has been cited as a costly fallout of that decision.
Opposition parties are working to boost an unlikely victory. To ensure transparency at the polls, CASA-CE hopes to leverage technology by using a computer program to calculate results based on data from party delegates at polling stations and minimize rigging. But MPLA is not standing by idly either. Citing security concerns, government authorities have banned protests and demonstrations by groups not contesting the elections.

http://www.loadedchuks.com/2017/08/the-longest-africa-serving-leader-is.html

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U do well

Good.

Excellent

Tank God oh after this years in power. maybe some african dictatorship will follow in his footstep

Wow Wow Wow,good one,good for his age and health

Deji124:
Tank God oh after this years in power. maybe some african dictatorship will follow in his footstep

lols example please

PMB should follow suite and resign ASAP.

Well, maybe he thinks dying in his office will make him a better hero. He wants to die in active service I'm sure.

I wish buhari well, but he obviously doesn't wish himself well.

38 years! Greed. I also heard that the black people in the country are marginalised while the whites and half-caste live better lives.

Evablizin:


Wow Wow Wow,good one,good for his age and health

You be ambulance?

There is one last point that I would like to make on Africa.


With the Europe colonizing Africa and the vast amounts of aid that they and people in the west have given Africa for the past half century, in many places we have created a culture of dependence. they used their charity money to buy guns instead of buying condoms.

We keep people alive through aid with both food and medicine. We cannot see people suffering and dying when the world can help. This, of course, shows our human decency. The flip side is that because we are giving them just enough to live they are not growing the necessary heroes that can inspire people to improve their communities to prosper to the point that they no longer need aid. That said, there are many individuals that are trying to improve the lives of the people but they are overwhelmed by the number of people who do not have the necessary inspiration to work.


For example: In South Africa, they have a government program that buys farms and sets up African people on these farms so that they can produce food. They give support in terms of loans and agri education.


This is good, it teaches people to become self-sufficient. In reality though, many of these farms are lying fallow because the people have lost interest and only subsistence farm instead of working to create a productive farm to feed the country.

Africans claimed to have big land for farming. yet their children are dying of famine and deceases. The smart humans left Africa and went to Europe, Asia and everywhere else for better life or for quality education while the retards stayed behind.

we showed to them where their natural resources are, we help them harnessed and process it, and still buys it from them. basically there is absolutely nothing they can do by themselves. we have been helping them to clean their ass. we taught them how to carry shit before then they poo by the road side and brushes like animals. they walk unclad on barefooted.


is there anything we haven't done for Africa?, the answers are extremely complicated. Many attempts to explain fully a single symptom of Africa being a shit hole will inevitably lack the nuance needed to understand the whole interplay of the causes. However, I personally feel that there is value in attempting to address at least famine, though a complete answer would take hours to write out.

First, obviously when we think of famine we think of Africa, we think of the crushing cycle of extreme hunger that leaves children with swollen empty bellies and skeleton arms. The most basic cause of famine quite clearly is not having enough farmland or food.

In most African countries with famine, the lack of food is caused by a combination of other problems. In some countries, there is a lack of arable land (for a variety of reasons), poor irrigation, lack of access to seeds, poor soil quality from years of terrible farming practices, lack of food storage facilities, lack of transport capacity.

There is also the interesting interplay between food aid and famine. When a village in Kenya gets a NGO sponsorship, some terribly complex things happen. If you imagine a barely functioning village dealing with poor sanitation, poor education, and poor local water/soil resources then a NGO coming in with food aid seems like a great idea. However, the food aid often will make things worse for Africans. Suddenly, when before, everyone in the village had an interest in supporting local attempts to create food. Cattle and farmland would be highly valued and centered in wealth trades and social interactions. Then free food arrives. Few people, particularly undereducated people are going to bust their asses to farm when food is free, and few people are going to sacrifice to go support the farmers when they are getting free food from some NGO tent. So the agriculture fails and when the NGO suddenly losses its funding, the people have lost the ability to feed themselves.
This is just an example of the unintended consequences and complications of the interplay of forces in Africa.

and the reason we need to stop saving Africa.

seunny4lif:
You be ambulance?

Nope Siren

After 38 years ago abi. Shakespeare son begin Beg sango to send thunder blast you

Buhari ooooooooooooooooh
Step down cos you are too old to rule us

You are grand father to Nigeria self
haba

seunny4lif:
Buhari ooooooooooooooooh
Step down cos you are you old to rule us

Mission accomplished.You defeated the weaked Jonas Savimbi, resisted racist White South Africans , put together a coalition that defeated their army in the battle of Cuita Cuanavale, led your country to prosperity
and stability. God Bless you!