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 ...

HUAMBO, Angola (Reuters) -- Angolan government troops and aid agencies are tightening security in this central highland city in the face of kidnapping threats and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi's birthday ...

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HELL and heaven are separated by a 20-minute drive along clogged streets. The centre of Angola's capital, Luanda, is a wasteland of piled-up rubbish, broken pavements and broken people; amputees from ...

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 ...

AFTER nine months of stagnation and stand-off, Angola's civil war has entered a new phase. Wary of over-hasty triumphalism, the government waited until its main objectives had been achieved before ...

THERE is an age honoured Bemba saying that 'ubushiku insofu ifwile nelyashi lya nsofu' (the day an elephant dies, it is the talk of the village). True to the saying the entire Southern Africa has been ...

Members of his family and UNITA had asked the government to bury Savimbi in his home village near the city of Kuito. His body has been buried since his death in 2002 in the neighbouring province of ...

At the hands of Jonas Savimbi, over a million Angolans have died and two generations lost If they had known that the baby of the station master and evangelical church pastor, Loth Malheiro Savimbi, ...

Savimbi's international isolation then increased when, after a peace deal had been struck and elections held in 1992, he refused to accept either his defeat at the polls or a role in a power-sharing ...

The sight of a man in fatigues stalking around a poor country is guaranteed to arouse the interest of ideologues in richer ones, whatever their persuasion. Yet the recent ‘martyrdom’ of Jonas Savimbi, ...