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Angola has declared five days of mourning following the passing of former President Eduardo dos Santos. He had been battling a long illness. Dos Santos passed away in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain. He had ruled Angola for 40 years.

Angolan President Joao Lourenco has paid tribute to Dos Santos saying he was a unique figure who took part in the fight against Portuguese rule.Angola will have its national flags flying at half-mast and all public demonstrations must be cancelled to honour the late President.

He frequently described himself as an accidental president, taking the reins after Angola’s first leader, Agostinho Neto, died during cancer surgery in 1979. He was replaced in 2017 by Lourenco, who despite being from the incumbent’s People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola , swiftly moved to investigate allegations of multi-billion dollar corruption during the dos Santos era.Portuguese news agency Lusa reported last month that the former president was admitted to an intensive care unit in Barcelona.

 

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This must be a mistake. This should have been declared in Barcelona where he died.

Dispecable to die in foreign hospitals when you are an oil rich nation

Thank you God, even though too late. Not 5,ten days of celebrating idiot death

He left a very young wife 😏🤔🙈

It's so sad how these presidents are celebrated after causing strife and destitution to the people,at his funeral they'll praise him, making him a true dedicated leader 🤥

Will the daughter attend the funeral, because she ran away to Dubai like the others 😏

Hopefully he'll come back in a decent coffin 😏

Mmmmmm madoda okunjani ukuphatha for isikhathi raise kangaka pho

May his soul rest in peace.....

Why mourning such nonsense

Angolan should forget about mourning of this dictator and start investigating his looting from his family and friends

Why are always die in foreign country. Only few die in their own countries. The reason is they mess up their own countries health care system and then run to Europe for medical attention because they can afford it while poor citizens suffer because they can't afford to Europe

We don't live for ever. Is pity. Some people think that they live for ever. The man is gone, no time to mourn. Only his family will miss him not other people. Coz they didn't know the man. Being a president doesn't mean that people knows u.

Is he a Spaniard?

Mourning for this corrupt guy? Wow

Hope the Spanish repatriate his whole body with IR without teeth. A country can’t mourn for 5 days and only receive a tooth 🦷 back to intern.

He ruled for 40yrs but didn’t care to build hospitals good for a President. He had to die in a foreign country

Isabel.was paying thousands of dollars to host the likes of Paris Hilton to attend her parties while looting state funds ftdddvgtfga

He failed to establish good health facility in hiss country such that heim & his elite are those only able to to have a feel of good medical facility. Why Afrika doing this to its own? We need leader like 👇👇👇👇

He was born Angolan, but died a Spanish. Mugabe was Zimbabwean but he died Singaporean. That's the story of African leaders

I am worried about the dollar billionaire Isabel, will she attend the funeral?

Ruled Angola for about 40 years failed to build a clinic that in or above the one in Barcelona

40 years and he didn't believe in the health system he recommended for his people💔💔💔 Talk about Marie Antoinette and the Cakes and the poor .

And in 40 years he could not build a proper hospital to take care of his health. RIP His Excellency.

Only happens in Africa where autocratic and kleptomaniacs are celebrated

Mourning a dictator that destroyed the lives of many Angolans

A whole former statesman dying in a local clinic in Spain. The clinic is better equipped than all hospitals in his African country where he was President for decades.

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