General Roberto Leal Monteiro, nicknamed Ngongo, is Home Affairs Minister of

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, a top governmental position in that country. He is — along with fellow "top

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s" Higino Carneiro, João Maria de Sousa,

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, and

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— one of the

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leaders holding top ministerial posts for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, the

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that has ruled Angola since it gained its independence from

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in 1975.

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