At the point when he ventured down, dos Santos gave over to previous safeguard serve Lourenco, handpicked to supplant him.
Be that as it may, Lourenco immediately turned on his recent supporter, beginning an enemy of debasement drive to recover the billions he thought had been stolen under dos Santos.
Dos Santos' child Jose Filomeno has been in jail beginning around 2019 on defilement allegations.
His oldest little girl Isabel was once named by Forbes as Africa's most extravagant lady, worth $3 billion (2.55 billion euros). She presently faces a record of examinations concerning her worldwide transactions.
Dos Santos passed on at the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona. By Pau BARRENA AFP Dos Santos passed on at the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona. By Pau BARRENA (AFP)
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa honored dos Santos saying his "modest starting points, his aggressiveness, his outcast from the nation of his introduction to the world and his schooling in the then Soviet Union resound significantly with the excursion numerous South Africans in our own freedom development experienced".
Portugal's leader Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa portrayed him as a "unequivocal hero" in the relations with Angola's previous pilgrim power.
"I recall him as a person of outstanding knowledge, who had the option to ensure Angolan public solidarity in a remarkably troublesome international setting", ex-Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Barroso told Lusa news organization.
The previous top of the European Commission had in the mid 1990s filled in as an arbiter during harmony talks among Luanda and renegade gatherings.
For quite a bit of his time at the top of his MPLA party, dos Santos battled a severe nationwide conflict.
The contention was a Cold War area of interest, with dos Santos getting Soviet and Cuban support while UNITA rebels had the United States and politically-sanctioned racial segregation South Africa on their side.
Namibia's leader Hage Geingob considered dos Santos an "extraordinary progressive" who committed his life to the quest for opportunity, equity and uniformity.
"Today is a dim day for the African mainland. One more goliath tree has fallen," Geingob said in an explanation.
At the point when the 27-year struggle finished in 2002, dos Santos drove Angola away from hardline Marxism and cultivated a post-war oil blast and unfamiliar venture flood that changed focal Luanda.
"My heart is dying," Nsimba Adao, a 39-year-old road seller in Luanda, told AFP. "He brought us harmony."
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