Angola's Dos Santos not up for re-election in 2017: party document

By Herculano Coroado LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has been in power since 1979, will not stand for re-election at national polls due to be held next year, a ruling party document showed on Friday. Joao Lourenco, the defence minister and vice president of the ruling MPLA party, was approved by its key decision-making body as its standard bearer to succeed Dos Santos after the president proposed him a day earlier. The party said on Thursday that rumours circula