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Joao Lourenco swears as President of Angola, country gets new head of state after nearly 40 years

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Sep 27, 2017, at 05:16 pm

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Luanda, Sep 27 (IBNS): Joao Lourenco, 63, was sworn in as president of Angola, according to media reports on Wednesday.

With his swearing in, the oil-rich southern African nation got a new leader in almost four decades.

On Tuesday, he took over from Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled the former Portuguese colony for 38 years, media reports said.

Among the leaders present at the swearing in ceremony were Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, and South African President Jacob Zuma.

Lourenco will be Angola's first head of state to be constitutionally limited to serving two five-year terms, according to media reports.

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