Jose Eduardo dos Santos 



Date of Birth : 28 August 1942 

Birth Place: Luanda 

Political Party : Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola 

Arrival in Power : 10 September 1979 

Religion: NA 

Profession: Politician





Biography: 





Jose Eduardo dos Santos was born in Luanda, in 1942. He studied the Soviet Union at the

Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute in Baku, present-day Azerbaijan. Following his studies he

returned to Angola and joined the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola). He

became the country's president in 1979, following the death of the first Angolan president. He

has been in power for 30 years, throughout his reign economic growth has been relatively high,

he also dealt with a civil war that ended in 2002. Following the end of this civil war large foreign

companies are looking to make substantial investments in order to extract Angola's natural

resources, thus the growth rate will remain high. Angola is however viewed as an extremely

corrupt country, and the government is accused of negligence in several sectors, notably basic

infrastructure.





Sources:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Eduardo_dos_Santos