LISBON, Portugal — José Eduardo dos Santos, once one of Africa's longest-serving rulers who during almost four decades as president of Angola fought the continent's longest civil war and turned his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angola, with oil prices soaring and long civil war ebbing, is taking tentative steps to redirect its vast oil revenues toward rebuilding nation; has reached accord with International Monetary Fund to ...

José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola's second president who ruled the mineral-rich state for almost four decades, has died aged 79, the government says. He died in Spain where he was treated after ...

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos prepares to cast his vote in Luanda, Angola, during the general elections on August 23. Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos prepares to cast his vote in ...

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — After 38 years as president of Angola, Jose Eduardo dos Santos left the nation’s highest office Tuesday, but not without making sure he and his family ...