Thirteen top carnival groups turned Luanda's Nova Marginal into a vibrant stage of music, dance, and national pride on Monday as the Angolan capital hosted the main parade of the Luanda Carnival.

Africa is experiencing “the worst outbreak of cholera in 25 years,” with a surge of cases in Burundi and Angola, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced.

Over the past two decades, China has become the world’s largest bilateral lender, reshaping the global financial order. Through massive infrastructure financing programs—especially under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—Beijing has extended loans worth hundreds of billions of dollars to developing and emerging economies. For many nations, these loans have fueled rapid infrastructure development: railways, highways, ports, energy plants, telecom networks. Yet they have also created substantial fiscal burdens and new geopolitical dependencies.

Unrest in Angola following protests against a fuel price hike has led to 22 deaths since Monday, according to the interior minister, though calm has since returned to the capital.

Seventeen people were injured, including four critically, when a fire erupted early Tuesday on Chevron's deep-water Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) oil platform, according to statements from Angolan authorities and the U.S. oil giant.

Gabon's former President, Ali Bongo, who was deposed in a 2023 coup, has left the country and is now in Angola, the authorities there have announced.

Peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group brokered by Angola aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo will begin on March 18 in Angola’s capital Luanda, the Angolan president’s office has announced.

Angola has confirmed 3,402 cholera cases and 114 deaths since the outbreak began in early January, according to a daily press release from the Health Ministry.