Luanda - Former Foreign Affairs minister Assunção dos Anjos died Monday of an illness at the age of 76, in Madrid, Spain, an official source has said.
Assunção Afonso de Sousa dos Anjos was born on February 13, 1946, in Luanda. He was a politician and diplomat, having served as minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2010.
During his diplomatic career, he also served as director for Africa and the Middle East at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as responsible, successively, for the offices of the Deputy Prime Minister, of the Minister of Planning and the offices of the then President of the Republic, José Eduardo dos Santos from 1979 to 1993.
He was also Angola's ambassador to Spain, France and Portugal.
In 2010, he was replaced by Georges Rebelo Chikoti as minister of Foreign Affairs and later hw was appointed presidential adviser.
Assunção Afonso de Sousa dos Anjos was a member of the Central Committee of the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
