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This article lists the presidents of Angola since the establishment of the office of president in 1975. The current president is João Lourenço . He assumed the office on 26 September 2017.
José Eduardo Van-Dúnem dos Santos (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ eˈðwaɾðu ðuʃ ˈsɐ̃tuʃ]; 28 August 1942 – 8 July 2022) was an Angolan politician and military officer who served as the second president of Angola from 1979 to 2017. As president, dos Santos was also the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and ...
The president of Angola (Portuguese: Presidente de Angola) is both head of state and head of government in Angola.According to the constitution adopted in 2010, the post of prime minister is abolished; executive authority belongs to the president who has also a degree of legislative power, as he can govern by decree.
João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço GColIH (born 5 March 1954) is an Angolan politician who has served as the third president of Angola since 26 September 2017. [4] Previously, he was the minister of defence from 2014 to 2017. In September 2018, he became the chairman of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the ruling party ...
Isabel Kukanova dos Santos [22] was born in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, [23] the eldest daughter of Angola's longtime President José Eduardo dos Santos (1942–2022) and his first wife, the Russian-born Tatiana Kukanova, whom he met while studying in the then Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.
In November 2017, Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of former President José Eduardo dos Santos, was fired from her position as head of the country's state oil company Sonangol. [26] In August 2020, José Filomeno dos Santos, son of Angola's former president, was sentenced for five years in jail for fraud and corruption. [27]
Pages in category "Presidents of Angola" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This is a list of heads of government of the Democratic People's Republic of Angola. Angola is a country in southern Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean. Since the adoption of a new constitution, early in 2010, the politics of ...