Posted to the web 1 October 2008 Louise Redvers Luanda Something looked very different at the inauguration of Angola's newly elected parliament, held Tuesday at the Talatona Convention Centre in Luanda, the capital - this is not a boys' club any longer. The number of women elected has nearly tripled since the last polls in 1992, rising from 29 to 81, or 36 per cent of the 220 seats at the National Assembly. This puts Angola, along with South Africa and Mozambique, among the Southern African countries with the highest number of women elected to Parliament. The ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola party (MPLA, in Portuguese), which won over 81 per cent of the vote, has 77 women among its 191 Members of Parliament (MPs). Its arch-rival the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) with 10 per...
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