The Latest Breaking News from Angola

Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second-biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, died on Friday, the presidency said.

Luanda (AFP) - Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola with an iron fist for 38 years, died on Friday at a hospital in Barcelona after suffering cardiac arrest, the government said.He was 79.

Former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos has died in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain after an illness, the Angolan government said

He was president of Angola from 1979 to 2017, then retired from public life to a Spanish mansion afterwards.

Spanish prosecutors say they have decided to look into allegations by a daughter of a former president of Angola that a conspiracy is behind her father’s serious illness

Fresh clashes broke out Thursday between the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) army and the M23 rebel group, one day after DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame met in Angola and agreed to de-escalate tensions amid renewed fighting, which risks “inadvertent escalation”. FRANCE 24…

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have agreed to a "de-escalation process" to stop violence between the Congolese army and rebels, which the DRC claims are supported by Rwanda. Angola's President, serving as mediator, has called the agreement a “ceasefire”.

The presidents of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have agreed on a process to de-escalate tensions and normalise diplomatic relations during a summit in Angola, the Congolese presidency said on Twitter on Wednesday.

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi is due to meet with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in Angola amid increasing hostility between the neighboring countries.