José Eduardo dos Santos

Shortly before that on 10 January Gabon's security services arrested General Faustin Munene Chief of Staff of the Congolese army under Laurent Kabila who also served in the Angolan armed forces and married a niece of former President José Eduardo dos Santos...

It took less than two months in office for President João Lourenço to take a direct swipe at Isabel dos Santos Africa's richest woman and the daughter of his predecessor José Eduardo dos Santos...

President João Lourenço's government has removed José Filomeno dos Santos (aka Zenu) son of former President José Eduardo dos Santos from direct control of Angola's US$5 billion sovereign wealth fund...

Those looking for signs that Lourenço intends to cut the power of the old guard and particularly the family of his immediate predecessor José Eduardo dos Santos say they see signs of incremental change...

(That's long but even if it had only lasted five minutes it would have marked him out as a ten times better orator than predecessor and mentor José Eduardo dos Santos whose speeches often embarrassed his keenest supporters...

While the Angolan economy has been in dire straits for over three years Euronews coverage carried footage of outgoing president José Eduardo dos Santos inaugurating the Lauca dam during the electoral campaign...

The daughter of outgoing President José Eduardo dos Santos billionaire businesswoman Isabel was the beneficiary of a hitherto unknown paternal windfall according to an investigation by Der Spiegel the Portuguese newspaper Expresso and European Investigative Collaborations an independent journalism centre...

Semba Comunicação is the state-subsidised private corporation controlled by Welwitschia 'Tchizé' dos Santos José Eduardo dos Santos's 39-year-old daughter and his 32-year-old son José Paulino 'Coreón Dú'...

There is one thing about the general elections of 23 August we can be almost certain of: Defence Minister João Lourenço hand-picked by President José Eduardo dos Santos remains stoutly loyal to his mentor and should win the Presidency comfortably...

The state of health of President José Eduardo dos Santos has long been one of Angola's best-kept secrets...