After two years of absence and several weeks of speculation, former president José Eduardo dos Santos, who led Angola from 1979 to 2017, finally returned to Luanda on 14 September.
Arriving from Barcelona, where he had been living since April 2019, the former head of state landed in Luanda in the late afternoon.
In a video of him, we see the former president getting off a plane, a Falcon 7X chartered by the Angolan presidency, and sporting a grey suit, white t-shirt and trainers. He is greeted by about 20 people, including General José Maria, his former head of the military intelligence and security service, then gets into a car to go to his residence in Miramar, a residential area located within the Angolan capital.
His return coincided with President João Lourenço’s two-day trip to Kwanza-Norte, a rural province east of Luanda. The former president is planning to stay for a month and
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