Jose Eduardo dos Santos
President

(pronounced "JOE-zay ed-WAHR-doh dose SAN-tose")

"I vow to struggle for strengthened national unity for the fulfillment of the worker-peasant alliance, and for the building of people's power."

The Republic of Angola is situated on the Atlantic (west) coast of Africa, just south of the Congo River. It is bordered to the north and east by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire), to the southeast by Zambia and to the south by Namibia. The national territory covers 1,246,700 sq km (481,226 sq mi) and includes the enclave of Cabinda in the northwest. The capital is Luanda. Angola's population, estimated at 10.6 million in 2002, is primarily Bantu, who come from four distinct groups: the Bakongo in the northwest, the Kimbundu in the north-central region, the Ovimbundu in the south-central region, and the Chokwe in the east...