Sources: Human Rights Watch
Burkina Faso passes a law criminalizing homosexuality, providing sentences of between two and five years in prison as well as fines. 2025-09-1
The Government of Angola says that former President of Gabon Ali Bongo, along with former First Lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and their son Noureddin Bongo Valentin arrived last night in Angola, where they received asylum "for humanitarian reasons", days after their release from prison, where they had been since the 2023 coup. 2025-05-16
Angola announces it will mediate peace talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Rwanda-backed rebel group March 23 Movement (M23), following a visit by Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi to discuss a potential peace process with Angolan president João Lourenço. 2025-03-11
Thousands of people protest in Luanda, Angola, accusing incumbent president João Lourenço of electoral fraud in the latest election. 2022-09-24
In Johannesburg, Angolan journalist and human rights campaigner Rafael Marques says the African Union should move its headquarters out of Ethiopia because of concerns about freedom of expression there. 2014-11-4
The ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola wins the Angolan general election with a preliminary 74.46% of the vote. 2012-09-1
Ghulam Nabi Azad, health minister of India, describes homosexual sex as "unnatural" and homosexuality as a "disease" which is "spreading fast" throughout the country. 2011-07-5
Angola begins deporting Congolese citizens from the north of the country. 2010-10-24
One person is killed and several are injured after gunmen open fire on a bus carrying the Togo national football team to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola. 2010-01-8