LUANDA : A Civil Solution
Nearly 5 million Angolans go to the polls today for two days of voting in that African country’s first elections.
The elections, for a new president and Parliament, bring to a formal end the 16-year-old civil war between the formerly Marxist government of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the U.S.-backed rebel movement of guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi.
The two leaders are the main candidates for president, and both have agreed to abide by the results of the elections, which will be conducted at 6,000 polling stations across a country three times the size of California.
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