Angola’s President Joao Lourenco is poised for a second term as his party raced toward a majority in a closely fought election.
Lourenco’s party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, or MPLA, was ahead with 52.08% of the vote in a provisional count. The main opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or Unita, garnered 42.98%, said Lucas Quilundo, a spokesman for the national electoral commission, which has tallied 86.4% of the ballots.
— Bloomberg