But in his heyday, Savimbi had a formidable selection of allies and acolytes. Fighting against an Angolan Government which deployed thousands of Cuban troops and enjoyed strong support from the former ...

Johannesburg — The veteran British journalist, Fred Bridgland, became well known in the 1980s for his biography of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and his writings about Unita, the movement that ...

Piero Gleijeses, a professor of U.S. foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University, is author of "Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976" (University of North Carolina Press, 2002 ...

JONAS SAVIMBI, the Angolan rebel leader who has been shot dead aged 67, received the backing of the West in his battle against Angola's Marxist regime during the Cold War, but later became an ...

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 ...

The ceremony was touted as a symbol of national reconciliation after decades of war. Thousands of supporters of Angola's former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi rallied for his public reburial on Saturday, ...

Brigadier Wala, who headed the army unit that killed Savimbi, told the Portuguese news agency Lusa he had died like a soldier, "with a gun in his hand". The 67-year-old Unita leader was killed on ...

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African National Congress (ANC) national chairperson Gwede Mantashe has described former president Jacob Zuma as a “rebel leader” similar to some militia dictators on the African continent, such as ...

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 ...

Five months into Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of cooperation between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, Americans are seeing the first legal maneuvers in ...