Jose Eduardo dos Santos and João Lourenço of Angola
For 38 years, dos Santos was Angola’s leader. Through the various degrees of difficulties the countries had to endure, dos Santos maintained his strong hold on power.
But after handing over power in 2017 to João Lourenço who was dos Santos former defence minister, the former Angolan president and his family have been on the defensive about his time in office.
Lourenço’s government is prosecuting the allegations of corruptions levelled against dos Santos and his family. The latter has since resigned as chairman of the party the two belong to.
Some say Lourenço has set his political guns blazing with one eye on Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman and daughter of Eduardo who wants to be president.
