title: 2022 in Angola
text: # 2022 in Angola
  
  Events in the year 2022 in Angola.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: João Lourenço
  * Vice President: Bornito de Sousa (until 14 September); Esperança da Costa onwards
  
  ## Events
  
  Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Angola
  
  27 July - The Lulo Rose, a pink diamond, the largest in 300 years, is discovered at the Lulo mine in Lunda Norte Province, Angola.
  
  24 August - 2022 Angolan general election: Angolans vote to elect their president in a tight race between incumbent leftist candidate João Lourenço and center-right candidate Adalberto Costa Júnior.
  
  25 August - The electoral commission announces that President João Lourenço's MPLA has won the general election.
  
  24 September - Thousands of people protest in Luanda, Angola, accusing incumbent president João Lourenço of electoral fraud in the latest election,
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 18 May - Fernando Guimarães Kevanu, 85, Roman Catholic prelate.
  * 4 July - José Eduardo dos Santos, 79, politician.
  