Former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos dies at 79
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By Benjamin Brown, CNN The former president of Angola, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, has died at the age of 79. Dos Santos, who served as president between 1979 and 2017, died in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Friday morning, CNN Portugal reported, citing a government statement.
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By Benjamin Brown, CNN The former president of Angola, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, has died at the age of 79. Dos Santos, who served as president between 1979 and 2017, died in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Friday morning, CNN Portugal reported, citing a government statement.
Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, has died aged 79, the Angolan presidency said Friday.
For nearly four decades, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos ruled over Angola with an iron fist. The autocrat died in a Barcelona clinic at the age of 79.
Dos Santos, who led Angola through its brutal post-independence civil war, has died. He was key in opening up the country's vast oil wealth to foreign investment after the Cold War.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who ruled Angola for with an iron fist for 38 years, died Friday at a hospital in Barcelona after suffering cardiac arrest, the government said.
Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who died Friday at the age of 79, ruled Angola for 38 years, using his nation's oil wealth to turn his family into billionaires
Following the death of Jose Eduardo dos Santos Friday at the age of 79, here are the key dates during his 38-year iron-fisted reign over oil-rich Angola.
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.
Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second-largest oil producer for nearly four decades, died Friday at Barcelona's Teknon Clinic following a prolonged illness
