#Other countries : Former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos died Friday morning at the age of 79 in the Barcelona clinic where he had been hospitalized since a cardiac arrest on June 23, the government announced on its Facebook page.
«The Angolan government reports with a sense of great pain and dismay the death» of José Eduardo dos Santos, affirms this short message, specifying that the death of him who led the country for 38 years had occurred at the end of the morning.
The Angolan executive «bows, with the greatest respect and consideration» on this historical figure who, according to him, presided over «for many years with clarity and humanism [au destin] of the Angolan nation, at very difficult times»adds the press release.
A five-day national mourning was decided from Saturday to honor his memory.
