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Angola Conducts State Funeral For Ex-Strongman Dos Santos

Angola Conducts State Funeral For Ex-Strongman Dos Santos

August 29, 2022 3:35 am

Angolans and a quite a number of African leaders gathered yesterday for the state funeral of former strongman president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, whose nearly four-decade rule of the oil-rich nation was inundated with allegations of plunder and nepotism.

The ceremony took place in the capital Luanda on a day that would have been dos Santos’s 80th birthday, and comes days after his party, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), saw its worst results at the polls in the most hotly contested elections since independence.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Dos Santos will be buried …

Angola decriminalises homosexuality

February 11, 2019 12:48 pm

The Angolan Parliament voted to abolish the abolish the legislation criminalizing homosexuality which dated back to 1886, when the country was still under the colonial rule of the Portuguese.

With the recent act of parliament, every discrimination based on sexual orientation in the country has been banned; and People who refuse to hire others because of their sexual orientation can now face up to two years in prison.

The LGBT community in the country hailed the decision of the parliament and urged other African countries to follow suit.…

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