Assunção Afonso de Sousa dos Anjos (13 February 1946 – 12 December 2022) was an

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n diplomat who was Angola's Minister of External Relations from 2008 to 2010.

Biography

Anjos was born in

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and worked at the Ministry of External Relations as Director for Africa and the Middle East. He was Director of the Cabinet of the First Deputy Prime Minister, Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Planning, and then"Perfil do novo Ministro das Relações Exteriores Dr. Assunção dos Anjos"
, website of the Angolan embassy to Portugal . Director of the Cabinet of the President of the Republic from 1979
, Angola Press Agency, 2 October 2008 . to 1993, under

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. Subsequently, he was Ambassador to Spain until being dismissed from that post at his own request in November 1999. He was then Ambassador to France; in October 2002, while still holding that post, he strongly denied that Angola had any military presence in

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during that country's

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. Anjos was instead appointed Ambassador to Portugal in early August 2002 and was sworn into that post by President dos Santos on 18 December 2002. He was later appointed Minister of External Relations on 1 October 2008, having been recalled from his post as Ambassador to Portugal immediately beforehand. In 2010 he was replaced by

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and subsequently appointed a presidential adviser. Anjos was a member of the Central Committee of the

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(MPLA).

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