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Freedom of information figures obtained by local MP Jo Swinson and the Scottish Liberal Democrats show that Cumbernauld College, which has a campus in Kirkintilloch, has lost 3089 part time places since 2009.
Only 154 more full time places were added over the same period.
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has warned that the £25 million SNP government cut to college budgets combined with the pace of reforms being demanded by ministers could put a further chokehold on opportunities.
"Parents, carers and others who find it impossible to study full time will find significantly fewer opportunities to learn at Kirkintilloch campus of Cumbernauld College.
"It is hard to overstate the potential impact that 3089 fewer part-time enrolments compared to 2009, with only 154 more full time students, could have on local residents.
"College principals have already warned that the government's £25 million cut from college budgets next year will undermine the sector's ability to cope with reforms being demanded by ministers. These figures show that colleges have already cut part-time places in their thousands. With over 80,000 fewer part-time places in Scotland's colleges since 2009, Scottish Liberal Democrats are concerned about the impact a further £25 million cut will have on students.
"The complexity and pace of the regionalisation reforms are challenging enough. However, they are made almost impossible to manage successfully by the depth and scale of the funding cuts being applied by Mike Russell. This cut puts a further chokehold on opportunities at a time when thousands remain out of work.
2. A table of the FOI responses is attached. Colleges with asterisks reflect FE institutions which have merged i.e. Glasgow Central and Metropolitan into Forth Valley. Those which are in bold have not returned their FOI response.


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Filip Reyntjens's book analyzes political governance in post-genocide Rwanda and focuses on the rise of the authoritarian Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the RPF has employed various means - rigged elections, elimination of opposition parties and civil society, legislation outlawing dissenting opinions, and terrorism - to consolidate power and perpetuate its position as the nation's ruling party. Although many international observers have hailed Rwanda as a 'success story' for its technocratic governance, societal reforms, and economic development, Reyntjens complicates this picture by casting light on the regime's human rights abuses, social engineering projects, information management schemes, and retributive justice system.
Includes critical analysis of the Rwandan Patriotic Front's bureaucratic regime
Examines the political governance since the 1994 genocide
Draws conclusions on the flawed political governance that risks destroying the achievements of its developmental efforts and has engendered large-scale structural violence
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3. Managing political space
4. Human rights, a dismal record
5. Dealing with the world and the region
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7. Managing information, imposing the truth
8. The politics of justice
Filip Reyntjens, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Filip Reyntjens is Professor of African Law and Politics at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp.
Rwanda After Genocide
Gender, Identity and Post-Traumatic Growth
Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
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INSTITUTE OF PROJECT MANAGERS
SRI LANKA (INCORPORATION)
[Certified on 23rd December, 2009]
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of December 24, 2009
Institute of Project Managers Sri Lanka 1
(Incorporation) Act, No. 73 of 2009
L.D.—O. INC. 1/2007.
ANACT TO INCORPORATE THE INSTITUTE OF PROJECT MANAGERS
WHEREAS an institute called and known as the "Institute Preamble.
of Project Managers Sri Lanka" has heretofore been
established in Colombo, for the purpose of effectually
carrying out and transacting all objects and matters connected
with the said institute according to the rules agreed to by its
members :
AND WHEREAS the said institute has heretofore
successfully carried out and transacted the several objects and
matters for which it was established and has applied to be
incorporated and it will be for the public advantage to grant
the application:
1. This Act may be cited as the Institute of Project Short title.
Managers Sri Lanka (Incorporation) Act, No. 73 of 2009.
2. From and after the date of commencement of this Incorporation of
Act such and so many persons as now are or may hereafter the Institute of
be enrolled as corporate and non corporate members of the Sri Lanka.
Institute of Project Managers Sri Lanka, (hereinafter referred
to as the "Institute"), or shall hereafter be admitted as members
of the Corporation hereby constituted shall be a body
corporate with perpetual succession, under the name and style
of the "Institute of Project Managers Sri Lanka" (hereinafter
referred to as the "Corporation") and by that name may sue
and be sued with full power and authority to have and to use
a common seal and to alter the same at its pleasure.
2 Institute of Project Managers Sri Lanka
General objects 3. The general objects for which the Corporation is
constituted are hereby declared to be—
Corporation.
(a) to promote and advance the science and practice of
project management in Sri Lanka ;
(b) to foster professionalism in the management of
projects ;
(c) to help in obtaining and exchanging academic and
industrial research and technical knowledge in the
field of project management by introducing speedy
communication systems and discussions thereon,
by establishing and maintaining technical and
management libraries, publications on matters of
professional interest and any such other means ;
(d) to promote the study of project management,
to encourage original research and provide a
recognized forum for the free exchange of ideas,
applications and solutions with a view of facilitating
the scientific and economic development of
Sri Lanka ;
(e) to conduct examinations for the granting of
membership of the Corporation to test the competency
of persons engaged in project management and to
grant certificates of competence ;
(f) to determine the eligibility of candidates for
admission to various grades of membership;
(g) to maintain ethics, standards and accreditation in
the field of project management ;
(h) to regulate the professional activities and to assist
in maintaining high standards in the field of project
(i) to collaborate with universities and other
educational institutes to encourage academic and
industrial research and for relevant areas of
education and career development at all levels in
project management ;
(j) to provide and maintain the necessary buildings
and material for the well being of its members and
the general public ;
(k) to encourage and assist in the settlement of disputes
by adjudicators, arbitrators and to maintain panels
of adjudicators and arbitrators ; and
(l) to establish relationships with other public and
private organizations, with regard to project
management, and to co-operate in matters of
common interest ;
4. Subject to the provisions of this Act and any other General powers
written law, the Corporation shall have the power to do, of the
perform and execute all such acts, matters and thing
whatsoever, as are necessary or desirable for the promotion or
furtherance of the objects of the Corporation or any one of
them, including the power to open, operate or close bank
accounts, to borrow and raise money with or without security,
to receive or collect grants and donations, to invest its funds,
and to engage, employ and dismiss officers and servants
required for the purpose of carrying out of the objects of the
5. (1) The affairs of the Corporation shall, subject Management of
to the rules of Corporation, to be made under section 6 of the affairs of the
this Act, be administered by a Council consisting of
the President, the immediate Past President, the Vice
President, the General Secretary, the Treasurer, the Assitant
Secretary, the Editor, the Assistant Treasurer and such other
office-bearers as may be provided for by the rules and elected
in accordance therewith.
(2) The members of the committee of the Institute
holding office on the day immediately preceding the date of
commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be the members
of the first Council of the Corpration.
Rules of the 6. (1) It shall be lawful for the Corporation, from time to
Corporation. time at any meeting by the votes of not less than two thirds of
the members present and voting, to make rules not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other
written law, for all or any one of the following matters :—
(a) the classification of membership and the admission,
withdrawal and expulsion of members and the
particulars to be incsribed in the register of members;
(b) the election of the members of the Council and its
powers , duties and functions and the term of office
of the members of the Council ;
(c) the powers, duties and functions of various officers,
agents and servants of the Corporation ;
(d) the procedure to be observed at meetings of the
Council ; the summoning and holding of meetings
of the Council, the times, places, notices and agenda
of such meetings ; the quorum therefore and the
conduct of business thereat ;
(e) the administration and management of the property
of the Corporation; and
(f) generally, the management of the affairs of the
(2) Such rules when made may, at a like meeting, and in
like manner, be altered, added to, amended or rescinded.
(3) The members of the Corporation shall be subject to the
rules of the Corporation.
7. The Council of the Corporation shall cause to be Register of
maintained a register in which every person who, on the date
of commencement of this Act, is a member of the Corporation,
and every person thereafter duly admitted as a member of the
Corporation shall have inscribed in such register his name,
address and such other particulars as may be prescribed under
the rules of the Corporation.
8. (1) The Corporation shall have its own fund and all Fund of the
moneys heretofore or hereafter received by way of gift, Corporation.
bequest, donation, subscription, contribution, fees or grants,
for and on account of the Corporation shall be deposited to
the credit of the Corporation, in one or more banks as the
Council shall determine.
(2) There shall be paid out of the fund all sums of money
as are required to defray any expenditure incurred by the
Corporaton in the exercise, performance and discharge of its
powers, duties and functions under this Act.
9. (1) The Council of the Corporation shall cause proper Accounts and
audit..
books of accounts to be kept of the income and expenditure
of the Corporation.
(2) The accounts of the Corporation shall be audited by a
qualified auditor, at least once in every year.
(3) In this section "qualified auditor " means —
(a) an individual who, being a member of the institute
of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka or of any
other Institute established by law, possesses a
certificate to practice as an Accountant issued by
the Council of such Institute ; or
(b) a firm of Accountants, each of the resident partners
of which being a member of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka or of any other
Institute established by law, possesses a certificate
to practice as an Accountant issued by the Council
of such Institute.
Debts due by 10. All debts and liabilities of the Institute existing on
and payable to the day immediately preceding the date of commencement
the Institute.
of this Act, shall be paid and discharged by the Corporation
hereby constituted, and all debts due to, and subscriptions
and contributions payable to the Institute on that day shall
be paid to the Corporation hereby constituted, for the purposes
of this Act.
Application of 11. The moneys and property of the Corporation
moneys and howsoever derived shall be applied solely towards the
promotion of its objects as setforth herein and no protion
thereof shall be paid, or transferred directly or indirectly by
way of dividend, bonus, profit or otherwise howsoever to the
members of the Corporation.
Power to charge 12. The Corporation shall be able and capable in law to
fees and
charge —
subscription.
(a) such fees, as the Corporation may deem reasonable,
for admission to any course or examination
conducted by the Corporation ;
(b) fees for the admission of persons to any class of
membership of the Corporation ; and
(c) such subscription and fees as the Corporation may
deem appropriate to charge.
Corporation may 13. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Corporation
hold property,
shall be able and capable in law to take and hold any property,
movable and
immovable. movable or immovable which may become vested in it by
virtue of any purchase, grant, gift, testamentary disposition
or otherwise and all such property shall be held by the
Corporation for the purposes of this Act and subject to the
rules of the Corporation, made under section 6 with full power
to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the
14. The seal of the Corporation shall not be affixed to Seal of the
any instrument whatsoever, except in the presence of two Corporation.
members of the Council, one of whom shall be the President
of the Corporation who shall sign their names to the
instrument in token of their presence and such signing shall
be independent of the signing of any person as a witness.
15. The Corporation shall have the power to appoint Disciplinary
disciplinary committees and to make such other steps as may Committees.
be deemed appropriate from time to time, for the control of
professional standards and for the management of discipline
among persons practising or acting as project managers in
16. If upon dissolution of the Corporation, there remains Dissolution.
after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities any
property whatsoever, such property shall not be distributed
among the members of the Corporation but such property
shall be given or transferred to such institution or institutions
having objects similar to the objects of the Corporation and
which is or are by the rules thereof prohibited from
distributing any income or property among its or their
members. The members of the Corporation shall determine
such institution or institutions at the time of dissolution of
the Corporation or prior to such dissolution.
17. Nothing in this Act shall prejudice or affect the rights Saving of the
of the Republic or of any body politic or corporate. rights of the
Republic and
18. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala Sinhala text
and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. to prevail in
case of


Team USA went 3-0 on the mats on Thursday in Rio, with women wrestlers Elena Pirozhkova, Adeline Gray, and Helen Maroulis advancing from their weightclasses.
First, Maorulis dominated Ukraine's Yuliia Khavaldzhy Blahinya. Period 1 saw Maroulis win 5-1 and the second was an even better 7-0. The 12-1 win cruises her into the Round of 16 with Zhong Xuechen.
Gray was next, and scooped the only four points of her match with Colombia's Andrea Olaya Gutierrez. She'll face Vasilisa Marzaliuk (Belarus) in the quarters.
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She opened with a 2-0 lead, but gave it back with a lax few moments to bridge the first and second segments. But Pirozhkova buried her opponent with 8-straight points to advance to the quarters, where she'll grapple with Mongolia's Soronzonboldyn Battsetseg.


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Allah v. Disney in the South China Sea
Dr. Timothy White (National University of Singapore) and Mr. Emmeff Winn (Auburn University) presented a thought-provoking paper at Farnham, which went a long way to explaining the reception of Disney's latest feature Aladdin in those parts of the world with significantly high Muslim populations. These parts include Indonesia, which has the largest Muslim population in… Read More »
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In memory of Ken Anderson: Disney Artist
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Designer dominated Disney books
It should be said at once that two books from Hyperion, the Disney company's new publishing house, Disney's Art of Animation by Bob Thomas and The Art of Mickey Mouse, editors Craig Yoe & Janet Morra-Yoe, are disappointing and overpriced for what they purport to offer, writes Robin Allan. It is sad to be unenthusiastic… Read More »
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Whatever happened to Sunflower?
It was the intention of the 50th Anniversary re-release of Fantasia to restore the film to its full original form. However, a subtle form of censorship has been used to remove a potentially embarrassing character, reports David Williams. The new print of the Disney film Fantasia, which has been meticulously restored to bring back the… Read More »
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A reappraisal of Disney's Melody Time – Page 2
There were more package films to follow: Song of the South (1946), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), Melody Time (1948), and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949). All these films are interesting, but for experiment and adventure in animation Melody Time is the most rewarding. It lacks The musical quality of Make Mine… Read More »
Once Upon a Wintertime (Director Hamilton Luske) This is a stylised story, sung by Frances Langford, of boy and girl romance on the ice, the human lovers echoed by two rabbits who travel to a frozen river on the young couple's sleigh. The girl and her rabbit counterpart are trapped on an ice floe (one… Read More »
Johnny Appleseed (Director Wilfred Jackson) This is the story of "a real life pioneer" called John Chapman (1776 – 1847) who, "with a tin pot hat, a bag of apple seed and a holy book.., all alone set out to meet the great unknown… without no knife, without no gun". The film chronicles his courage… Read More »
Trees (Director Hamilton Luske) This is a visualisation of Joyce Kilmer's famous poem, with Oscar Rasbach's music, sung by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. The music is too lush and we are subjected to one of those lapses in taste to which Disney is prone, but otherwise, this little section is a gem. It is the direct… Read More »
Father Robert Murphy meets veteran Disney animator Grim Natwick
After having been assigned over the years to seven Roman Catholic parishes in Kansas City, Missouri, I was assigned one year ago to a church in St. Joseph, Missouri. Kansas City, as students of animation know, was the starting point for many animators, not the least of whom was Walt Disney. Following my interest in… Read More »
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HomeMeet Our Board
Jeffrey Flynn, President
Jeff Flynn is a co-founder of LOWLINC. He has more than three decades' experience in sales, marketing and management, first with General Motors (1969 to 1979) and later as owner/manager of Aquia Auto Parts (1979 to 2003). He has a long record of volunteer and community service with the Virginia Automotive Wholesalers (now Virginia Automotive Parts and Service) as member and president, member of the Lake of the Woods Lions Club (1993 to present), and director and president of the Lake of the Woods Association (2008 to 2011). He also served in the U.S. Army (1959 to 1962).
Carolyn Rourke, Chair
Carolyn Rourke has lived in Lake of the Woods since 2005 when she retired here after a 20-year career with Marriott International's Information Technology Department. At Marriott she managed large-scale IT projects and was an IT liaison to Marriott's corporate departments. Prior to that, Carolyn spent 15 years in communications with a national trade association in Washington, D.C. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland and a BS in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland University College. Since coming to the Lake, Carolyn has volunteered in a number of capacities, including docent work at nearby Ellwood, canine rescue, and teacher assistant with the Project Excel program at the Locust Grove Elementary School.
Emily Slunt, Vice Chair
Emily Slunt brings to the Board more than 29 years of experience in healthcare, as a nurse, nursing professor, director of nursing and chair of the Health Sciences Division at Howard Community College. She holds a Ph.D. in Education Policy, Planning and Administration from the University of Maryland College of Education, a MSN in Child Health Nursing from the University of Maryland Baltimore, and BSN and RN degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Since 2016, she has co-chaired the LOWLINC Social Activities Committee and serves as an instructor in LOWLINC's medical note-taking training for volunteers. In addition to her LOWLINC work, Emily heads up the Lioness Scholarship Committee, working with Germanna Community College and the LOW Lake Youth Foundation. She is a member of the Health Ministry Team at her church and serves on the LOWA External Affairs Committee. Retired since 2005, Emily moved to the lake in 2007.
Mary-Jane Atwater, Secretary
Mary-Jane Atwater is a co-founder of LOWLINC and served as board chair from 2015 to 2018. She has been a member of the Lake of the Woods community since 1997 and a full-time resident since 2013. Mary-Jane has more than 35 years of experience in marketing communications and public relations, with service primarily to clients in the nonprofit sector. Prior to the 1989 launch of Atwater Communications, she worked for a public relations agency and earlier as a rehabilitation counselor. For two years, Mary-Jane managed public relations for At Home in Alexandria, an "aging-in-community village" in Alexandria, Virginia. Mary-Jane holds an MBA and an MA in Education (with a focus on counseling) from The George Washington University and a BA cum laude from Connecticut College.
John Beisheim, Treasurer
John and his wife moved from Massachusetts to Lake of the Woods in 2011. Now retired, John's 41-year career was largely in corporate finance and also included manufacturing and IT operations, client contract negotiation, and extensive work with attorneys in commercial law. He worked for 3 ½ years for Xerox, followed by 25 years with Digital Equipment/Compaq Computer and concluded his career with Bureau Veritas. Lines of business included field service, manufacturing, corporate finance and IT controllership, IT outsourcing, and consumer product testing services. His work took him to 16 foreign countries including a 3 ½ year relocation to Germany. John holds an MBA in Accounting from Columbia University and a BA with High Honors in History from the University of Maine, Orono.
Vicky Fleming, Member
Vicky moved to LOW in 1984 when, as store manager for Montgomery Ward, she was transferred to the Fredericksbug store. She also served as store manager for Rite Aid stores in Vermont and Virginia. Since early 2016, Vicky has chaired the LOWLINC Volunteer Committee, orienting new volunteers and planning volunteer appreciation events. She also notarizes background check documents and organizes volunteer meetings and training. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Vicky was raised in Manchester, Vermont. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts. In retirement, apart from her LOWLINC responsibilities, Vicky hopes to return to playing golf. She loves walking three miles every day on the trails around the clubhouse and lake.
Donalda Lovelace, Member
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Finding Leonardo. The Case for Recovering 'The Battle of Anghiari'
For centuries the whereabouts of Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork mural of the Battle of Anghiari has been one of the art world's greatest mysteries. Leonardo worked on a painting in the Great Hall of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio for less than a year before abandoning it to pursue other commissions. The uncompleted fresco was reported to be deteriorating rapidly, and less than 50 years later, Giorgio Vasari was commissioned to cover Leonardo's unfinished work with new, large-scale battle scenes. Yet those who saw Leonardo's mural during its brief existence applauded it as his greatest work and commended it as a 'school for the world'.
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And having climbed the stairs of the Great Hall, diligently take a look at a group of horses and men (a battle piece by Leonardo da Vinci), which will strike you as a miraculous thing.
— Anton Francesco Doni (1549)
In Finding Leonardo: The Case for Recovering 'The Battle of Anghiari', art historian Rab Hatfield revisits historical data and scholarly analysis in light of new archival evidence and results from recent thermographic examinations to clarify the painting's exact location in the Palazzo Vecchio.
Rather than submit his research to a scholarly journal, which was his original intent, Hatfield, a past Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and former Fellow of Villa I Tatti, decided to publish with a fledgling popular press. Support from actor and art historian Peter Weller and The Friends of Florence, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoration of the city's art treasures, made publication through The Florentine Press possible. Explaining his decision to present his meticulous research in this unusual format, Hatfield noted that in the years it takes for an article to appear in a scholarly journal, the research project to determine its existence will be completed. He also wanted to make the information accessible to those beyond the art history community.
In an essay for the general reader, Hatfield identifies the mural's location, posits its probable size and context, considers the possible existence of other work, and explores the complex issues of the painting's state and the viability of its recovery. He offers a section of detailed notes for the scholar.
A professor at Syracuse University in Florence, Hatfield is also the author of The Wealth of Michelangelo and Botticelli's Uffizi "Adoration": A Study in Pictorial Content. He serves on the advisory commission of a major international project to search for the mural using non-invasive technology, a joint effort of the University of San Diego and the University of Florence.
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Q: Ember Error while testing: You will need to wrap any code with asynchronous side-effects in a run We already have a app working just working to add test cases to it for the purpose of CI.
We have a small code that tries the login process and checking what happens after the possible login states like success, failure, invalid account account locked etc.
so the I tried the follwing code.
visit('/login')
    .fillIn('#identification', "testuser")
    .fillIn('#password', "testpass")
    .click('input[type="submit"]')
    andThen(function(){
        ok(!exists('button:contains(sign in)'), '3. Login button is not displayed when authenticated');
        ok(exists('.dropDownMenuOptions li:contains(Logout)'), '4. Logout button is displayed when authenticated');
    });

and it gives the following error in console.
ember.debug.js:5162 Uncaught Error: Assertion Failed: You have turned on testing mode, which disabled the run-loop's autorun. You will need to wrap any code with asynchronous side-effects in a run

This error occurs after the click is performed. as the click makes the AJAX call to server and on its response the route transition is made.
For the case of successful login, I want to check if my route changed from /login to / which I am not able to do because of this error.
Please suggest.
Thanks

A: In the controller/component that handles your form submit you must be doing a set (example)
save: function() {
    this.get('model').set('name', 'foo');
}

If this work is done in the run loop (async) after some ajax event be sure to wrap it w/ ember run like so
save: function() {
    Ember.run(function() {
        this.get('model').set('name', 'foo');
    });
}

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We were invited to create the publicity for the great Brunton Theatre's Youth Company's new show 'Discontented Winter – House Remix. A modern 'remix' of Shakespeare's Richard III described as "Shakespearean blank verse rubbing shoulders with street slang as the plot takes us from Richard III by way of Richard and Judy".
We needed to design a contemporary youthful image to promote the show, so cut out the characters from their original setting, added brickwork, used our dot screen effect and recolored them in this vibrant way. The title 'House Remix' was sprayed by hand and scanned, adding it to the posters primary title to help capture the urban angle of the production.
The artwork turned out great, and we hope, helped the show gain the level of success it achieved.


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Ca' Corniani è una frazione del comune di Caorle, nella Città metropolitana di Venezia.

Storia
Secondo le prime fonte storiche, sin dal XV secolo il territorio di Ca' Corniani era costituito da un'ampia distesa paludosa, proprietà della Serenissima repubblica, che ne lasciava le terre in concessione agli abitanti di Caorle per la caccia e la pesca. Il nome di Ca' Corniani risale al periodo in cui la Repubblica suddivise il territorio di Caorle in diverse «prese», da vendere a nobili veneziani per far fronte ai problemi economici dello stato. Fu così che le famiglie Cottoni e Corniani acquistarono la terza e la quarta presa, dando vita agli abitati di Ca' Cottoni e di Ca' Corniani.

A partire dalla metà del 1800, il territorio subì un processo di radicale bonifica, quando, in seguito all'acquisto del terreno da parte delle Assicurazioni Generali, furono realizzati canali e impianto idrovoro ad opera del direttore Daniele Francesconi. Inaugurato nel 1880, l'abitato di Ca' Corniani rappresenta il primo esempio di bonifica integrale delle paludi venete ad iniziativa privata.

Tra la fine del XIX e l'inizio del XX secolo, Ca' Corniani divenne sede di un'importante azienda agricola, specializzata in particolare nella coltura del vino e del grano, sempre sotto il controllo delle Assicurazioni Generali. In questo periodo, e fino agli anni del secondo dopoguerra, Ca' Corniani conobbe un periodo di relativo benessere, in cui la popolazione crebbe fino a raggiungere 1500 unità, in prevalenza abitanti del capoluogo ivi rifugiatisi dopo la Grande Guerra.

Con l'incremento del turismo balneare seguito agli anni sessanta e settanta, molti degli abitanti del luogo si trasferirono nuovamente nel centro di Caorle, determinando un progressivo spopolamento della frazione fino alle odierne circa 200 unità.

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse
Nella frazione si trova l'antica chiesa parrocchiale dedicata a San Giovanni Battista, patrono dell'abitato, costruita all'inizio del Novecento e consacrata nel 1920 dal patriarca di Venezia Pietro La Fontaine, che ne staccò il territorio dalla parrocchia di Ca' Cottoni formando una nuova parrocchia. L'edificio, ad una sola navata, è ornato da un campanile a vela, arricchito da tre campane a slancio realizzate negli ultimi anni novanta. All'interno vi è contenuta la statua del patrono, un tempo trasportata in processione attraverso i campi circostanti il 29 agosto, giorno in cui la Chiesa ricorda il martirio del santo.

Negli ultimi anni 2010, la frazione è stata oggetto di un imponente intervento di qualificazione, ad opera della società Genagricola, con la realizzazione di diversi percorsi ciclopedonali e l'organizzazione di eventi turistici ed eno-gastronomici. Questo progetto, denominato «Terra d'avanguardia», ha anche arricchito il territorio con tre installazioni artistiche a delimitarne i confini:
 una serie di sculture raffiguranti animali all'interno del podere;
 una scritta a led che si accende quando cade un fulmine sul territorio italiano;
 una copertura dorata per il tetto dell'antico casale abbandonato al confine con il territorio di Ca' Cottoni.

Sempre all'interno dello stesso progetto si pone lo sviluppo di tecnologie agricole eco-sostenibili che hanno portato Caorle a fregiarsi della bandiera Spighe Verdi della FEE.

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Ca' Corniani

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2, January 2023
Senegalese MPs jailed for attacking female legislator in parliament 0
Two Senegalese opposition MPs were handed six-month jail terms on Monday for physically attacking a female colleague in parliament.
In a case that sparked anguished debate about democracy in Senegal, pro-government legislator Amy Ndiaye was slapped and then kicked in the belly during a chaotic session in the National Assembly.
MPs Mamadou Niang and Massata Samb were each given six-month prison terms after a trial that began on December 19.
They were also each fined 100,000 CFA francs CFA ($150) and ordered to pay five million francs in damages.
Prosecutors had sought two-year terms.
The bust up happened on December 1, during a routine vote on the justice ministry's budget.
It was sparked by remarks Ndiaye had made about Serigne Moustapha Sy, an influential Muslim leader who supports the opposition but is not a lawmaker.
After order was restored, Ndiaye fainted and was given hospital treatment — her lawyer Baboucar Cisse said she was pregnant and there were fears she could lose her baby.
She has since left hospital but "remains in an extremely difficult situation," Cisse said.
The incident triggered a fierce debate about parliamentary discourse and attacks on women. It notably coincided with an awareness campaign against domestic violence.
Senegal is widely viewed as a beacon of stability and democracy in West Africa — a region notorious for coups and dictatorships.
Legislative elections in July led to a virtual tie, requiring President Macky Sall's party to forge a coalition to stay in power.
Sall was elected to a seven-year term in 2012 and re-elected for a five-year tenure in 2019. He has not divulged his plans for the next presidential vote, due in 2024.
Niang and Samb, who were arrested on December 15, were not present in court.
"They are going to remain in prison pending an appeal," one of their lawyers, Abdy Nar Ndiaye, told AFP.
They denied hitting the legislator, despite video evidence to the contrary.
Their lawyers argued the pair were immune from prosecution, given their status as lawmakers, but this was rejected by the court.
Don't turn Africa into China-US battleground, Beijing warns Washington 0
Beijing has voiced its opposition to turning Africa into a focus of the rivalry between China and the United States as dozens of African leaders converge in Washington for a summit aimed at rebooting US influence on the continent.
Ahead of Tuesday's start of the three-day US-Africa Leaders Summit, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said China would form partnerships with African countries on the basis of mutual respect, equal treatment and sincere cooperation.
"We are glad to see that all sides of the international community are paying more attention to Africa, but we firmly oppose using Africa as an arena for great power rivalry and using African strategy as a tool to limit and attack other countries' cooperation with Africa."
Heads of state from 49 African nations and the African Union have been invited to take part in the summit.
China is seen as the United States' most significant economic and military adversary. It has offered assistance in African affairs without conditions. Sub-Saharan nations have also been major recipients of Chinese investment through the "belt and road initiative."
With dozens of African leaders descending on Washington this week, the administration of President Joe Biden is offering a not-so-subtle pitch in its economic competition with China on Africa.
Deputy Commerce Secretary Don Graves has acknowledged the US has fallen behind as China has surged past American foreign direct investment in Africa. The continent, whose leaders often feel they have been given short shrift by leading economies, remains crucial to global powers because of its rapidly growing population, significant natural resources, and a sizable voting bloc in the United Nations.
But the US has accused China of creating "debt traps" by extending unsustainable loans to developing nations with the intent of capturing loan-supported projects when they cannot pay back the loans.
Africa remains of great strategic importance as the US recalibrates its foreign policy with a greater focus on China.
Source: Presstv
Advance Democracy: President Obiang elected to another 7 years in Equatorial Guinea 0
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has been elected to another seven-year term in Equatorial Guinea, where the 80-year-old has held the office since August 1979.
The National Electoral Board said Obiang received 405,910 votes, accounting for a notably high 94.9% of all votes cast in the West African nation. In reporting results, the board said it was "scrupulously respecting the sovereign will of the people" following last Sunday's vote.
Presidential candidates Andrés Esono and Buenaventura Monsuy received 9,684 votes and 2,855 votes, respectively.
Obiang's Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE), a coalition of political parties, also kept its hold in the legislature and in the country's municipal offices. That includes all 100 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, all 55 seats in the Senate, and all 588 offices contested at the municipal level.
Despite his fragile health, Obiang's re-election was fully expected in Equatorial Guinea, where opposition political leaders and human rights activists are routinely silenced and corruption is common.
That pressure continues following a 2017 coup attempt and questions about succession by his son, Teodorin Obiang, who has been convicted on corruption and fraud-related charges in multiple countries including France, the United States and Brazil.
More than 100 people have been detained since the elder Obiang announced his intent to run for office in September, according to human rights lawyer Tutu Alicante, head of the Equatorial Guinea Justice organization.
Although Obiang isn't the oldest leader in Africa—President Paul Biya of Cameroon is 89 years old—he has now become the longest-running elected leader in the world.
Source: Africa Times
2, November 2022
Equatorial Guinea shuts land borders ahead of election campaign 0
Equatorial Guinea on Monday closed its land borders with Cameroon and Gabon to prevent what it describes as "infiltration" groups intent on "destabilising" the presidential election campaign starting this week.
Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue had said the measure would "prevent the infiltration of groups who may attempt to destabilise the (election) campaign", which begins on Thursday.
He did not fix a date for the reopening of the borders when he announced last Tuesday that only airports would remain open.
A local official in the northern border town of Ebebiyin told AFP on condition of anonymity that the frontier had been closed since Monday morning.
Initially scheduled for April 2023, the presidential poll was brought forward to November 20 to coincide with legislative, senate and local elections following a decree by long-serving leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
The war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic were cited as the reasons behind the decision to hold the costly votes simultaneously.
The central African nation has heightened border security since what the authorities described as an aborted coup attempt in late 2017 that aimed to kill President Obiang.
The coup was allegedly orchestrated by Equatorial Guineans and foreign mercenaries crossing from Cameroon.
Equatorial Guinea regularly shuts its borders on security grounds despite a regional agreement on the free movement of people and goods with Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, the Central African Republic and Chad.
The country possesses major oil and gas resources, but a majority of its 1.3 million people live below the poverty line, according to the World Bank.
30, October 2022
Congo-Kinshasa expels Rwandan ambassador as M23 rebels gain ground 0
The authorities in Kinshasa on Saturday announced they were expelling the Rwandan ambassador as M23 rebels they accuse Kigali of supporting made fresh gains in the east of the troubled country.
The announcement, made by government spokesman Patrick Muyaya, came after a government meeting to assess the security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The latest advance by rebel fighters prompted the UN peacekeeping mission there to increase its "troop alert level" and boost support for the army.
Muyaya said that in recent days, "a massive arrival of elements of the Rwandan element to support the M232 terrorists" against DRCongo's troops had been observed.
"This criminal and terrorist adventure" had forced thousands of people to flee their homes, he added.
Given Rwanda's continued support for the rebels, the defence council, presided over by President Felix Tshisekedi, had decided to ask the government to give Rwandan ambassador Vincent Karega 48 hours to leave the country.
Rebel advances
M23 rebel fighters have seized control of Kiwanju and Rutshuru-centre along the strategic RN2 highway in the eastern province of North Kivu, local officials and witnesses told AFP by telephone earlier Saturday.
Rebels had also been seen at Rugari, just 30 kilometres (20 miles) down the RN2 from provincial capital Goma, which it links with the north and Uganda.
Four peacekeepers were wounded by mortar fire and shooting at Kiwanja, the mission announced.
"Kiwanja and Rutshuru-centre are in M23 hands," said civil society representative Jacques Niyonzima.
"The rebels have held two meetings and told local people to go about their work and those displaced to return to their villages, saying security was now guaranteed," he said.
At Kiwanja, "in our area we recorded three deaths, a man, a woman and her child, killed by shells that landed on houses", said local resident Eric Muhindo.
A general hospital official in Rutshuru added: "There were several wounded in Kiwanja after a small amount of resistance".
"Calm has returned. People are moving about and shops are opening," the official said, asking not to be named.
Hostile acts
The UN's MONUSCO mission condemned "the hostile acts of M23", the rebel group, and called for an immediate halt to the fighting.
The mission said on Twitter it was providing "air support, intelligence and equipment" as well as medical assistance.
The peacekeepers said they were "mobilised in support" of DRC's army after residents reported at least 10 people dead since Sunday and dozens more injured near RN2.
MONUSCO said it had set up an "operations coordination centre" with the army and was carrying out reconnaissance and surveillance flights, but did not provide further details about the alert level.
M23, a mostly Congolese Tutsi group, resumed fighting in late 2021 after lying dormant for years, accusing the government of having failed to honour an agreement over the demobilisation of its fighters.
It has since captured swathes of territory in North Kivu, including the key town of Bunagana on the Ugandan border in June.
The front line between Congolese troops and M23 rebels had been calm in recent weeks until last week, when clashes erupted again.
Last Sunday, M23 fighters captured the village of Ntamugenga in the Rutshuru area. It lies four kilometres (2.5 miles) from the RN2 where the clashes spread on Thursday.
Tension with Rwanda
The UN humanitarian affairs office in the DRC said this week around 34,500 people had fled the Rutshuru region.
The group's resurgence has destabilised regional relations in central Africa, with the DRC accusing its smaller neighbour Rwanda of backing the militia.
Rwanda denies the charges and counters that DRC works with a notorious Hutu rebel movement involved in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis, the Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which Kinshasa also denies.
A report by independent UN experts seen by AFP in August found that Kigali had provided direct support to the M23.
And this week a US representative to the United Nations spoke of Rwandan defence forces providing assistance to the M23.
M23 first leapt to prominence in 2012 when it briefly captured Goma before a joint Congolese-UN offensive drove it out.
The militia is one of scores of armed groups that roam eastern DRC, many of them a legacy of two regional wars that flared late last century.
Relations between Kigali and Kinshasa appeared to have improved when Tshisekedi took over as president in DR Congo in 2019 and held several meetings with Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
But the revival of M23 put an end to that rapprochement.
Burkina Faso holds transition talks after latest coup 0
Political parties, social and religious groups and representatives of the security forces gather Friday to chart the next phase in Burkina Faso's future after the country's latest coup.
The forum in the capital Ouagadougou will take place two weeks after the jihadist-torn Sahel state was rocked by its second military takeover in less than nine months.
A 34-year-old captain, Ibrahim Traore, leading a faction of disgruntled junior officers, forced out Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
Damiba had seized power only in January, toppling the country's last elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
The talks opening on Friday are scheduled to appoint a successor to Damiba as transitional president — a head of state who will rule in the interim before power is eventually returned to civilians.
Supporters of Traore are clamouring for him to be that man, although he has outwardly said he does not want the job.
The head of the forum's organising committee, Colonel Celestin Compaore, said the conference "will examine and adopt (a) charter of transition, appoint a transitional president in line with the charter and receive any proposals for the proper execution of the charter."
Troubled country
One of the world's poorest nations, Burkina Faso has a long history of coups since independence from France in 1960.
The latest takeovers are rooted in unrest within army ranks over a jihadist insurgency that swept in from neighbouring Mali in 2015.
Thousands of people have been killed and nearly two million have been displaced.
Barely a week goes by without the announcement of a bloody attack on the poorly-equipped security forces. More than a third of the country lies outside government control.
Traore said Burkina would uphold a pledge that Damiba made to the West African bloc ECOWAS involving new elections and a return to civilian government by July 2024 at the latest.
But like Damiba before him, Traore defended the coup on the grounds that the authorities were failing to do enough against the jihadists.
The coup announcement on September 30 said it was time to "refocus the transition (interim military rule) on the security emergency".
Damiba fled to neighbouring Benin on October 2, after a weekend of violent protests that also targeted the French embassy and cultural centre and saw demonstrators raise Russian flags.
Vocal support
Traore said he would only stay at the helm to carry out "current business" but at meetings in Ouagadougou and Burkina's second city, Bobo-Dioulasso, supporters have been clamouring for him to be appointed to the top job.
"Captain Ibrahim Traore must fully implement the reason for which he came," said Oscar Seraphin Ky, one of his backers.
France, a close ally in Burkina's fight against the jihadists, has watched the new turmoil with deep concern, especially the anti-French sentiment.
A coup in Mali in 2020 sparked friction with France and led to the country's military entwinement with Russia. French troops that had been fighting jihadists in Mali for nine years pulled out this year after the row escalated.
The French ambassador to Burkina Faso, Luc Hallade, has advised French citizens to limit their movements on Friday to "what is strictly necessary… out of concern for new protest movements".
According to local pollster Apidon, 53 percent of those questioned would prefer to have Traore in charge.
Among his most ardent supporters, the scale of Burkina's security crisis makes it crucial to have a military man in charge, it found.
6, October 2022
Burkina Faso: Traore officially appointed as president after coup 0
Captain Ibrahim Traore was appointed as president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, according to an official statement, after the West African country's second coup in less than nine months.
The impoverished Sahel nation plunged into renewed turmoil at the weekend when Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba — who had seized power in January — was toppled by newly emerged rival Traore, leading a faction of disgruntled junior officers.
It was the latest putsch in the Sahel region much of which, like Burkina Faso, is battling a growing Islamist insurgency.
Traore has been appointed as "Head of State, Supreme Head of the Armed Forces", according to the official statement read out on national television by spokesman for the ruling junta Captain Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho.
The statement said that Traore would now be the "guarantor of national independence, territorial integrity… and continuity of the State."
Damiba fled to Togo following the two-day standoff, which was defused by religious and community leaders.
Burkina is struggling with a seven-year-old jihadist campaign that has claimed thousands of lives, forced nearly two million people to flee their homes and left more than a third of the country outside government control.
Swelling anger within the armed forces prompted Damiba's coup against the elected president in January.
Appointing himself transitional head of state, Damiba had vowed to make security the country's top priority — but after a brief lull the attacks revived, claiming hundreds of lives.
Delegates from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) wrapped up a fact-finding mission Tuesday and held meetings with religious and traditional leaders and Traore.
Traore said the ECOWAS visit was to "make contact with the new transition authorities" as part of the support that Burkina Faso derived from the region.
Speculation has risen that Burkina's new leader may follow other fragile regimes in French-speaking Africa and forge close ties with Moscow at the expense of France, the region's former colonial power and traditional ally.
The dramatic takeover coincided with violent anti-French protests and the sudden emergence of Russian flags among demonstrators.
On the streets, demonstrators' slogans included "France get out", "No to ECOWAS interference", and "Long live Russia-Burkina cooperation".
The United States has warned the junta of the risks of allying with Russia, saying they condemned "any attempt to exacerbate the current situation in Burkina Faso".
"We strongly encourage the new transitional government to adhere to the agreed-upon timeline for a return to a democratically elected, civilian-led government," a State Department spokesman said earlier this week.
Traore has previously said he would stand by a pledge that Damiba gave ECOWAS for restoring civilian rule by July 2024.
5, September 2022
Kenya's Supreme Court upholds Ruto's presidential victory over Odinga 0
Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday upheld William Ruto's victory in the August 9 presidential election, ending weeks of political uncertainty and delivering a blow to challenger Raila Odinga who had alleged fraud in the poll.
"This is a unanimous decision. The petitions are hereby dismissed, as a consequence we declare the first respondent (Ruto) as president-elect," Chief Justice Martha Koome said.
Deputy President Ruto, 55, scraped to victory by a margin of less than two percentage points in a tightly-fought race against Odinga, a veteran opposition politician now backed by the ruling party.
Odinga filed a petition to Kenya's top court last month, claiming he had "enough evidence" to show he had in fact won the election, which ranked as one of Africa's most expensive polls.
Although voting day passed off peacefully, the results sparked angry protests in Odinga strongholds and there are fears that the dispute could fuel violence in a country with a history of post-poll unrest.
Judges spent the last two weeks sifting through boxes of evidence to establish if any irregularities were substantial enough to nullify the election, as was the case with the August 2017 presidential poll, which Odinga also challenged.
Koome began reading out the verdict shortly after midday (0900 GMT), methodically listing the court's response to the nine issues at the heart of the case.
She said the technology used by the Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) met the standards of "integrity, verifiability, security and transparency".
Any "irregularities were not of such magnitude as to affect the final results of the presidential election", she said, dismissing all the claims made by the petitioners.
Odinga's 72-page petition alleged hackers broke into IEBC servers and uploaded doctored result forms, but the claim was dismissed by the court.
Both the candidates had pledged to respect the verdict, which sparked celebrations by Ruto supporters.
After 2017's annulment, the IEBC was under heavy pressure to deliver a clean poll.
But this year's outcome sparked a rift within the IEBC itself, with four of its seven commissioners accusing chairman Wafula Chebukati of running an "opaque" process.
Chebukati denied the allegations, insisting he carried out his duties according to the law of the land despite facing "intimidation and harassment".
Since 2002, no presidential poll outcome in Kenya has gone uncontested.
At around 65 percent, turnout was sharply lower than in the August 2017 election, with observers saying it reflected growing disillusionment among citizens.
Odinga, who previously said he was cheated of victory in the 2007, 2013 and 2017 polls, had framed the legal battle as a fight "for democracy and good governance".
Ruto in turn had urged the court to toss out the petition, accusing Odinga of trying "to have another bite at the cherry through a judicially-forced re-run".
The 2017 poll saw dozens of protesters killed at the hands of police.
Kenya's worst electoral violence occurred after the 2007 vote, when more than 1,100 people died in politically motivated clashes involving rival tribes.
Ruto will be sworn in on September 13, becoming Kenya's fifth president since independence from Britain in 1963 and taking the reins of a country beset by inflation, high unemployment and a crippling drought.
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Angola president secures second term in tense election 0
Angola's MPLA party was on Monday declared the winner of a closely fought election, extending its decades long rule in the oil-rich country and handing President Joao Lourenco a second term.
He promised to be the "president of all Angolans" and to open dialogue after the electoral commission announced the results, which saw the opposition make large gains.
"This is a victory for Angola and Angolans in general," Lourenco, 68, said in his inaugural address shortly after the unveiling of the result of the August 24 ballot.
"This vote was a vote of confidence, which gives us the immense responsibility of promoting dialogue and social consultation".
The National Electoral Commission (CNE) reported the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola won 51.17 percent of the ballots against 43.95 percent for the main challenger, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
Despite the victory, the outcome — the tightest in Angola's history — marked a record low for the MPLA and might yet end up in court after UNITA had earlier rejected provisional results.
Several members of the electoral commission did not sign off on the final tally, poll officials said on Monday.
The MPLA has traditionally wielded control over the electoral process as well as state media, and opposition and civic groups had raised fears of voter tampering.
UNITA leader Adalberto Costa Junior, 60, last week called for an international panel to review the count.
International observers have raised some concerns including questions over the electoral roll and biased reporting by state-owned television, but most said voting was peaceful and well organised.
Lowered majority
The MPLA, a former Marxist liberation movement, has ruled Angola for nearly half a century since independence from Portugal in 1975.
But it has seen a steady decline in support over recent elections.
While it romped to victory with 71.84 percent of the vote in 2012, it only garnered 61 percent five years later.
UNITA scored 26.67 percent in 2017 elections and contested the official count.
Alex Vines, of the UK-based think tank Chatham House, said that while UNITA was likely to challenge the count also this time, the former rebel movement had reasons to be happy.
"It's an amazing result for UNITA when you think that 20 years ago, they were defeated on the battlefield," he said.
"Politics will have to change in Angola now. There's going to have to be the politics of compromise," he said.
The results gave the MPLA 124 of the 220 parliamentary seats up for grabs while UNITA won 90.
Turnout was low, with only about 45 percent of those registered casting their ballots, which pointed to a growing disillusionment with politics, said Vines.
The United States on Monday called on all parties "to express themselves peacefully and to resolve any grievances in accordance with applicable legal processes".
"We will continue to closely follow the electoral process," the State Department said in a statement before the final results were announced.
The latest election has been overshadowed by a struggling economy, inflation, poverty, drought and the death of Lourenco's predecessor Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
Dos Santos was buried in Luanda at a solemn funeral on Sunday.
The opposition has proved popular in urban areas, winning in the capital Luanda and among youth disaffected with the ruling party.
Angola is Africa's second largest crude producer, but the oil bonanza has been accompanied by corruption and nepotism.
Lourenco, a former general educated in the Soviet Union, was first elected in 2017.
He is credited with far-reaching reforms since taking power, including boosting financial transparency, tackling graft, and promoting business-friendly policies to lure foreign investors.
But critics say his anti-graft crusade has been one-sided and aimed at settling political scores, targeting children and cronies of dos Santos.
His economic reforms have also so far failed to translate into better living conditions for most Angolans, critics say.
"With this vote of confidence, it is time to continue the reforms necessary to make Angola a more prosperous and more developed country," Lourenco said, promising to pay particular attention "to the expectations of young people".
Angolans vote in tight race 0
Angolans were casting ballots on Wednesday in what was expected to be the most competitive vote in their country's democratic history, with incumbent President Joao Lourenco squaring up against charismatic opposition leader Adalberto Costa Junior.
The election has been overshadowed by Angola's many woes – a struggling economy, inflation, poverty and drought, compounded by the death of a former strongman president.
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which has ruled the oil-rich nation for nearly five decades, is facing its most serious challenge since the first multiparty vote in 1992.
"It's been 20 years of peace and we are still poor," said Lindo, a 27-year-old electrician queueing up to vote in Nova Vida, a middle-class suburb of the capital Luanda.
"The people want change — the government doesn't provide for people's basic needs," said Lindo, who gave only his first name.
Eight political parties are running, but the real contest lies between the MPLA and its long-standing rival and ex-rebel movement the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
Opinion polls suggest that support for the MPLA – which won 61 percent of the vote in 2017 elections – will dwindle, while the UNITA, which has entered an electoral pact with two other parties, will make gains.
But UNITA's inroads might not be enough to unseat Lourenco, 68, who succeeded veteran leader Jose Eduardo dos Santos five years ago.
"The margins will be closer than ever before… but the advantages of incumbency mean MPLA is still odds on to pip Costa (Junior)," said Eric Humphery-Smith, an analyst at London-based Verisk Maplecroft.
Appeal to vote
The MPLA traditionally wields a grip over the electoral process and state media in Angola, but the opposition is urging supporters not to be intimidated.
"This is a historic day," Costa Junior declared, after casting his ballot.
"It is important that this day be a celebration," he said, urging "full turnout and for all ballots to be counted."
Lourenco urged citizens to come out and vote because "in the end it's all of us who will emerge winners and it is democracy that wins" he said after casting his ballot at Lusiada de Angola University in Luanda.
Opposition and civic groups have raised fears of voter tampering, and social media is rife with claims of dead people registered to vote.
Costa Junior, 60, is popular among young people — a significant and growing voting bloc — and has pledged to "eradicate poverty" and create jobs.
Poverty and graft
Lourenco, a Soviet-educated former general who had promised a new era for Angola when he was first elected, has trumpeted a list of achievements.
He is credited with making far-reaching reforms in one of southern Africa's economic powerhouses.
They include boosting transparency in the financial sector and efficiency in parastatal organisations, and promoting business-friendly policies to lure foreign investors. His government has managed to attract back global diamond miner De Beers, which had quit 10 years ago.
But little has changed for most of Angola's 33 million people for whom life is a daily grind.
Angola is Africa's second largest crude producer, but the oil bonanza also nurtured corruption and nepotism under dos Santos, who died in Spain last month.
The low-key, night-time repatriation of his remains in the final leg of campaigning has added a macabre touch to the election.
Dos Santos will be buried on Sunday, which would have been his 80th birthday.
Analysts warn that any MPLA attempts to capitalise on the funeral could backfire, given widespread anger over his legacy among young people.
Some 14.7 million people are registered to vote at 13,200 polling stations across the vast southern African nation.
Angolans living overseas are for the first time able to cast ballots from abroad.
Results are expected within a few days. In past elections, results have been contested, in a process that can take several weeks.