“Fourth day of mourning for the ‘peace fighter’”headlines this Monday, July 11 the Angolan newspaper The country, after the death on July 8 of José Eduardo dos Santos in a clinic in Barcelona, where the 79-year-old former Angolan president had been hospitalized since a cardiac arrest on June 23, 2022. The director of the daily, Daniel Costa, salutes this morning the memory of the one who will have been “a patriot until the end”.
“Angola loses a great statesman”headlined Saturday the Angola newspaper, close to power, using the words of João Lourenço. The current president, who has declared a week of national mourning, succeeded dos Santos in 2017, after the latter’s 38-year reign. In its editorial, the daily recalls that “Zedu”, as he was nicknamed, had taken power in 1979, in the midst of the cold war between the capitalist blocks, led by the United States, and the socialist blocks, led by the former USSR,