Editing Angola (section)

===21st century===
[[File:Porto de Luanda - Angola 2015.jpg|thumb|right|[[Luanda]] is experiencing widespread urban renewal and redevelopment in the 21st century, backed largely by profits from the oil and diamond industries.]]
{{Main|2000s in Angola}}
On 22 February 2002, government troops killed Savimbi in a skirmish in the [[Moxico (province)|Moxico province]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 February 2002 |title=Savimbi 'died with gun in hand' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1839252.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614151458/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1839252.stm |archive-date=14 June 2023 |access-date=14 August 2023 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref> UNITA and the MPLA consented to the [[Luena, Angola|Luena]] Memorandum of Understanding in April; UNITA agreed to give up its armed wing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Naufila |first=Marmiliano Keyse de Oliveira |year=2016 |title=A search for an integrated peace framework for Angola: the case of Kuito-Bié and Viana |url=https://ukzn-dspace.ukzn.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10413/14282/Naufila_Marmiliano_Keyse_de%20Oliveira_2016.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=14 August 2023 |website=[[University of KwaZulu Natal]] |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230814223551/https://ukzn-dspace.ukzn.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10413/14282/Naufila_Marmiliano_Keyse_de%20Oliveira_2016.pdf |archive-date=14 August 2023}}</ref> With the [[elections in Angola|elections]] in [[2008 Angolan parliamentary election|2008]] and [[2012 Angolan general election|2012]], an MPLA-ruled [[dominant-party system]] emerged, with UNITA and the FNLA as opposition parties.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pacatolo |first=Carlos |url=https://iep.lisboa.ucp.pt/pt-pt/asset/10381/file |title=The Emerging Predominant Party Systems in Angola (2008– 2017) |publisher=CIEP – Centro de Investigação do Instituto de Estudos Políticos |year=2022 |location=Lisboa |pages=3–15|access-date=19 February 2023 |archive-date=19 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219152508/https://iep.lisboa.ucp.pt/pt-pt/asset/10381/file |url-status=live }}</ref>

Angola has a serious humanitarian crisis; the result of the prolonged war, of the abundance of [[minefield]]s, and the continued political agitation in favour of the independence of the [[exclave]] of [[Cabinda (province)|Cabinda]] (carried out in the context of the protracted [[Cabinda War|Cabinda conflict]] by the [[Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda|FLEC]]). While most of the internally displaced have now [[Squatting in Angola|squatted]] around the capital, in ''musseques'' ([[shanty towns]]) the general situation for Angolans remains desperate.<ref>Lari (2004), Human Rights Watch (2005)</ref><ref>For an overall analysis see Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War, London: Hurst, 2015</ref>

A [[drought]] in 2016 caused the worst food crisis in [[Southern Africa]] in 25 years, affecting 1.4 million people across seven of Angola's eighteen provinces. [[Food prices]] rose and acute [[malnutrition]] rates doubled, impacting over 95,000 children.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vidal |first=John |date=22 May 2016 |title=How southern Africa is coping with worst global food crisis for 25 years|work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/22/southern-africa-worst-global-food-crisis-25-years |access-date=13 September 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=18 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518174602/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/22/southern-africa-worst-global-food-crisis-25-years |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[José Eduardo dos Santos]] stepped down as [[President of Angola]] after 38 years in 2017, being peacefully succeeded by [[João Lourenço]], Santos' chosen successor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-angolas-new-president-joao-lourenco/a-40218458|title=Who is Angola's new president Joao Lourenco? &#124; DW &#124; 26.09.2017|publisher=Deutsche Welle|access-date=26 February 2021|archive-date=3 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203010533/https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-angolas-new-president-joao-lourenco/a-40218458|url-status=live}}</ref> Some members of the dos Santos family were later linked to high levels of corruption. In July 2022, ex-president José Eduardo dos Santos died in Spain.<ref>{{cite news |title=José Eduardo dos Santos: State funeral for Angola ex-president |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-62705492 |publisher=BBC News |date=28 August 2022 |access-date=5 September 2022 |archive-date=31 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131233938/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-62705492 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In August 2022, the ruling party, MPLA, won another majority and President Lourenço won a second five-year term in the [[2022 Angolan general election|election]]. However, the election was the tightest in Angola's history.<ref>{{cite news |title=Angola's MPLA ruling party wins elections and presidency |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/29/angola-ruling-party-wins-vote-and-president-a-second-term |publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=5 September 2022 |archive-date=13 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213030812/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/29/angola-ruling-party-wins-vote-and-president-a-second-term |url-status=live }}</ref>