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Johannesburg — Former President of Angola, Jose Eduardos Santos, who ruled Africa's second-largest oil producer for nearly 40 years, said he was receiving intensive care at a Barcelona clinic, the Portuguese news agency Lusa. Reported on Thursday. ..
Dos Santos, 80, has been treated since 2019, but his health has deteriorated and he was admitted to the intensive care unit, Lusa reported.
Dos Santos, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, resigned five years ago. His rule was a brutal civil war that lasted nearly 30 years against US-backed UNITA rebels who won in 2002, and subsequent oil that enriched the elite but rarely alleviated widespread poverty. Characterized by the fuel boom.
He was from the incumbent People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), but he swiftly moved to investigate multi-billion dollar corruption allegations during the Dos Santos era. It was replaced by the president. Children of former leaders.
Last year, Dos Santos returned to Barcelona for the first time since his exile in Barcelona in April 2019.
(Report by Anait Miridzhanian in Gdansk, edited by Tim Cocks and Mark Heinrich)
