José Eduardo dos Santos, former President of Angola, dies

The former President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, died this Friday at 10 a.m. at a clinic in Barcelona where he was admitted to intensive care. The information was provided by the Presidency of Angola in a statement published on its Facebook page.

José Eduardo dos Santos had been in intensive care for two weeks in an induced coma at the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona, Spain, after suffering a stroke.

The former head of state of Angola, dies at the age of79. He had been in ill health for several years and had been accompanied in Barcelona since 2006.

The President of Angola, João Lourenço, has already decreed five days of national mourning, starting on Saturday.

José Eduardo dos Santos was head of state for 38 years (1979 and 2017), serving one of the longest presidencies in the world, and only one other president in the world has been in power longer - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea.

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