How Angola's legendary rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, turned on his friends and killed them in droves. THE LAST WORD \| Andrew M. Mwenda \| A couple of months ago, while visiting Gen ...

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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 ...

In what is being billed as a rare moment of national unity, the historic leader of Angola's rebel UNITA movement, Jonas Savimbi, will get a public funeral on Saturday, 17 years after he was killed in ...

LUANDA, Angola — Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel group that has fought the government and frustrated peace efforts for nearly three decades, was killed Friday in a military attack on UNITA forces ...

The family of late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi are suing the makers of Call of Duty over his depiction in the best-selling video game. Three of Savimbi’s children accuse Activision Blizzard of ...

LUANDA, Angola (AP) – Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel group that has fought the government and frustrated peace efforts for nearly three decades, was killed Friday in a military attack on UNITA ...

Angola, playground for other nations’ armies and graveyard of failed peace treaties, now appears to have a cease-fire. The military wing of the main remaining rebel movement disbanded several weeks ...

VIANA, Angola, July 19 (Reuters) - Members of Angola's main opposition party streamed into a conference hall on Thursday to cast ballots in a leadership race overshadowed by the ghost of Jonas Savimbi ...

LISBON — José Eduardo dos Santos, once one of Africa’s longest-serving rulers who during almost four decades as president of Angola fought the continent’s longest civil war and turned his country into ...