People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) supporters gather for the start of the campaign for the presidential election in 2022, at Largo das Escolas in Luanda on June 26, 2021. The election is on August 24. PHOTO | AFP
Angola is heading to its fifth General Election, the first without former president José Eduardo dos Santos, who died in July. But the political scheming in the country is still going on as if he were alive.
Dos Santos made history by organising three consecutive elections, and which his ruling party, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), won.
