Jose Eduardo dos Santos

Angola swears in Lourenco, first new president

Luanda - Muslimchronicle

Jose Eduardo dos Santos's 38-year reign over Angola finally came to an end Tuesday when his hand-picked successor Joao Lourenco was inaugurated as president at a ceremony in Luanda. Lourenco read an oath in which he vowed "on my honour to devote myself" to the role of president, as he took power after the ruling MPLA party won last month'sRead more

Lourenco: ex-general set to be Angola's next president

Luanda - Muslimchronicle

Angola's next president, Joao Lourenco, is a ruling party loyalist and former general who endured several years out of favour after angling for the top job in the 1990s. Since then, Lourenco, 63, has convinced key regime players he is the right man to succeed Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled the oil-rich southwest African nation for 38 years.Read more

Ruling MPLA party wins Angola elections

Luanda - Muslimchronicle

The ruling MPLA party won Angola's elections, a poll official announced Thursday, with party candidate Joao Lourenco now set to succeed President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos who has ruled for 38 years. An election commission official in Luanda said that the MPLA (People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola) party had won just over 64 percent of vote source: AFPRead more

Angola's president orders inquiry into stadium stampede that killed 17

Luanda - Arab Today

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has ordered an investigation into the cause of a stampede at a football match in which at least 17 people were killed, according to the BBC. Scores of people were injured in the stampede at a stadium in the northern city of Uige on Friday when hundreds of supporters stormed the venue's gates. "IRead more

With low oil prices, Sonangol is in ‘precarious financial situation’

Luanda - Arab Today

Angolan state-owned oil company Sonangol rode the commodities boom that drove the country’s extraordinary growth after civil war ended in 2002, but today it symbolizes a national economic crisis. The Luanda-based company has increasingly been in focus since Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of long-time President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, was appointed CEO in June. She vowed to improveRead more

Angola's Jose Eduardo dos Santos 'to step down in 2018'

Luanda - Arab Today

Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has announced he will step down in 2018, having ruled since 1979, The BBC reported on Friday "I took the decision to leave and end my political life in 2018," he told a congress of the ruling MPLA party. In 2001, Mr Dos Santos said he would not seek office in the next presidentialRead more