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Friday, March 11, 2016

Angola's dos Santos 'to step down in 2018'

One of the continent's longest-serving leaders Jose Eduardo dos Santos said he will step down in 2018, Reuters news agency is reporting.
It quotes a speech he made to his MPLA party saying: "I took the decision to leave and end my political life in 2018."
He came to power in 1979 - and is Africa's second-longest serving head of state after Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang.

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