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The National Electoral Commission said the MPLA took 61.10 per cent of the votes counted compared with the opposition UNITA party’s 26.71 per cent.

Angola, home to sub-Saharan Africa’s third-largest economy, held a smooth national election on Wednesday with the MPLA’s former defense minister Joao Lourenco expected to be voted in as the OPEC-member’s first new president for 38 years.