An election commission official in Luanda said the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) had won just over 64 percent of the ballot. HANDPICKEDDos Santos, a secretive and much criticised leader who announced his retirement earlier 2017, handpicked veteran party loyalist Lourenco, 63, as his successor. "It is impossible in the current Angola that the MPLA wins in all provinces with such a gap." Casa-CE representative Miguel Michel said: "We do not recognise the results announced today." Amnesty International called for Angola's next leader to "guide the country out of the spiral of oppression" and castigated Dos Santos's "appalling human rights record".

Source: Daily Nation August 25, 2017 03:11 UTC