What is 2019 in Angola?
Events in the year '''2019 in [[Angola]]'''. ==Current leaders== * [[President of Angola|President]]: [[João Lourenço]] * [[Vice President of Angola|Vice President]]: [[Bornito de Sousa]] ==Events== ===January to June=== [[File:Cunene_in_Angola.svg|thumb|150px|[[Cunene Province]] (highlighted) was very damaged by the year's drought]] *23 January – The [[National Assembly (Angola)|National Assembly]] agrees on new criminal rules, the country's first one since independence in 1975. Among the new rules passed, according to [[Human Rights Watch]], was making same-sex activity no longer illegal and the outlawing of [[wikt:discrimination|discrimination]] based on [[sexual orientation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/angola-decriminalizes-sex-conduct-rights-group-60590733|title=Angola decriminalizes same-sex conduct, rights group says|website=ABC News|agency=Associated Press|date=24 January 2019|access-date=2 July 2020}}</ref> *13 March – A place holding between 450 and 600 million containers of oil is discovered off the Angolan coast by the Italian company [[Eni]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/eni-angola/italys-eni-makes-major-oil-find-in-angola-idUSL8N2103HG|title=Italy's Eni makes major oil find in Angola|agency=Reuters|first=Stephen|last=Jewkes|editor=Dale Hudson|date=13 March 2019|access-date=3 July 2020}}</ref> *22 March – The [[Angola national football team]] [[wikt:qualifies|qualifies]] for the [[2019 Africa Cup of Nations]] finals following a 1–0 win over Botswana in [[Francistown]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47671426|title=Africa Cup of Nations: Angola qualify ahead of Burkina Faso|website=BBC Sport|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|date=22 March 2019|access-date=27 June 2020}}</ref> *30 April – A [[UNICEF]] report reveals that drought in the first three months of the year has caused the number of Angolans in the southern [[Cunene Province]] needing humanitarian assistance to triple to more than 800,000. The repo