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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The Angolan government reported Friday that rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who has led a struggle for power in that country for almost 30 years, was killed during fighting ...

Back on Nov. 22 President Reagan fielded a reporter’s question about Jonas Savimbi. In his address to Congress the night before, the president had said that “we will continue to support the heroic ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – The video of his bloodied corpse broadcast around the world last weekend left no doubt that the Angolan government’s claims were true: Jonas Savimbi, the flamboyant rebel ...

HIS death had been reported at least 15 times before. So when the news broke that Jonas Savimbi had been shot dead by government troops, Angolans bottled up their glee until they could be sure. Then ...

Former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi on Saturday declared Angola`s first-ever election fraudulent and warned of renewed civil war after it became clear that he had lost his bid for the presidency.

Crowing like a cock and flailing his arms wildly, Jonas Savimbi, the guerrilla-leader-turned-presidential candidate, demonstrates why he is considered one of Africa`s most electrifying demagogues.

Key dates in the life of Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi, who was killed in a fight with government forces in 2002 and is to be reburied on Saturday: Savimbi, pictured in 1996 P Pulse News Agency ...

Former leader of Angola's rebel UNITA movement Jonas Savimbi will be reinterred Saturday, 17 years after he was killed in a shootout with government soldiers that spelt the end to the country's long ...

JONAS SAVIMBI was a survivor. He outlasted Cold War rivalries and apartheid South Africa, which financed his long struggle to topple Angola’s Marxist government. After outside support dried up, he ...

ANYONE who has visited Angola can see why the country desperately needs peace. It has been at war since before most Angolans' parents were born. Its fertile soil bristles with mines, its people are ...