Angola’s incumbent claims election lead amid rising tensions Provisional results give João Lourenço more than 52% of the vote despite surge for rival party Unita The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2022
Angola’s young voters prepare to call for change in ‘existential’ election A new generation could end decades of MPLA rule this week and serve notice on Africa’s veteran leaders in polls seen as test of democracy The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2022
Angola's Eduardo dos Santos: an unlikely leader known for his 'judicious' use of violence José Eduardo dos Santos, the former Angolan president who died on 8 July 2022 five years after relinquishing power, was an unlikely leader. The Conversation · Aug 8, 2022
Angola's Eduardo dos Santos: a divisive figure in life - and in death There is unlikely to be consensus on what José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola’s former longtime president who died earlier this month in Barcelona, Spain, will represent in the memory of Angolans. The Conversation · Jul 22, 2022
Angola's Dos Santos failed to provide a moral example and stop the plunder of the state Silence is what comes to define the life and the death of the former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos (1942-2022), who died recently at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, at the age of 79. Putting it slightly differently, his control of what he said and what he left unsaid… The Conversation · Jul 21, 2022
Spanish court allows autopsy of former Angolan leader dos Santos A Spanish court has ruled that an autopsy be performed on the body of Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos who died in a clinic in Barcelona on Friday at the age of 79, a court spokeswoman said on Monday. Reuters · Jul 11, 2022
José Eduardo dos Santos obituary President of Angola for nearly 40 years whose rule was marred by corruption The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2022
Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos, once one of Africa's longest-serving rulers, dies Dos Santos died at 79 after a long illness. Under his watch, Angola became sub-Saharan Africa's second-largest oil producer — but the wealth didn't reach the people. WEKU · Jul 9, 2022
Jose Eduardo dos Santos: won Angola's war and took the spoils José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola for nearly four decades, winning a brutal civil war and overseeing an oil-fuelled boom that did little to alleviate poverty, died on Friday. He was 79 years old. Reuters · Jul 8, 2022
Former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos dies at 79 Former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos has died in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain after an illness, the Angolan government said The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022