How ill is Angola’s leader, the opposition asks, amid rumours of his death
Luanda — On Wednesday, Angola’s opposition called for official clarification on the health of veteran President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has been out of the country for nearly three weeks. Dos Santos’s influential daughter, Isabel, this week moved to deny rumours that the president had died in Spain, where state media confirmed he had travelled on May 2. "We are all concerned about the lack of official information on the health of the president," Rafael Savimbi, a senior figure in Unita, the main opposition party, said. Agostinho dos Santos, a political analyst close to the opposition, said "serious and clear explanations" were needed after reports of the president’s health troubles and rumours of his death. Opposition news website Maka Angola said the president was "between life and death in a private clinic in Barcelona". Dos Santos has been in power since 1979 and has announced that he would not contest elections due in August, marking a historic change in the oil-rich countr...
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