July 8 (UPI) --Jose Eduardo dos Santos, a longtime controversial African ruler who was president of Angola for nearly four decades, died on Friday close to his home in Spain. He was 79. The government ...

Throughout his time as president, José Eduardo dos Santos’s health has been the subject of rumours. But for the past week, the information that has been filtering through about his condition has been ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, who controlled the continent’s second-biggest oil producer ...

Giant portraits, foreign heads of state including Félix Tshisekedi, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Filipe Nyusi, Cyril Ramaphosa and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, emotional declarations, an ...

As Angola’s president for 38 years, Mr. dos Santos ended the country’s civil war. He also launched an economic boom, but it mainly benefited his family and friends. By Alan Cowell José Eduardo dos ...

President José Eduardo dos Santos, who died last Friday, was a very private man who mastered the art of keeping himself in power. In his 38-year rule over Angola, there were many internal challenges ...

The election may not change the country’s government, but the contest reflects the growing discontent of young voters, many of whom are unemployed. By Gilberto Neto and Lynsey Chutel After José ...

Former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos has died in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain, the Angolan government said. He was 79 and died after a long illness, the government said in an announcement ...

AFRICA HAS endured more than its share of grotesque dictators. Mobutu Sese Seko guzzled pink champagne in a jungle Versailles built from his plundering of Congo. Sani Abacha, who looted Nigeria’s oil ...

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