One of Africa’s most durable rulers, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has announced an end to his nearly 38-year reign. Now 74, the autocrat is Africa’s second-longest serving leader – one month short of Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

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On Friday, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos told his ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party that he would step down ahead of August’s elections, finally ending his nearly 38-year reign. Dos Santos named Defense Minister Joao Lourenco, a former general, as his preferred successor.

Dos Santos has led Angola since 1979 – a tenure that included almost the entirety of the oil-rich southern African nation’s 1975-2002 civil war. During the investment boom that followed the civil war, dos Santos became the target of criticism, with some calling him secretive and corrupt as Angola’s citizens suffered dire poverty and state repression and his own family accumulated massive wealth and power.



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