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Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, known as Nandó (born in Luanda, Angola March 5, 1950), is the Prime Minister of Angola. He was appointed in November 2002, and took office on December 6, 2002, filling the office which had been unoccupied since 1999. He had previously been Interior Minister.
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Santos has a BA in Law and was a member of the MPLA from 1971. Following Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975 he began a career in the People’s Police Corps of Angola becoming a division head in 1978. In 1981 he moved to the ministry of the interior becoming Deputy Minister in 1984. The following year he was elected a member of the MPLA-Workers’ party congress, given the rank of colonel in the Angolan military and later becoming a member of the People's Assembly, beginning a succession of appointments to government ministerial posts.
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