Long Serving Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos announced Friday he will not run in August elections, signalling the end to 37 years in power and naming his defence minister as the candidate to succeed him.
The autocratic 74-year-old has been the oil-rich country's president since September 1979, making him Africa's second-longest serving leader one month short of Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
His rule has seen the end of civil war and an investment boom, but has also been criticised as secretive and corrupt, with Angola's citizens suffering dire poverty as his family became hugely wealthy.
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