The latest reports put the number killed when a train was blown up in Angola last week at 252. UNITA, the notoriously brutal organisation led by Jonas Savimbi that has been fighting a civil war with ...

Of the group of Unita officers gathered in the lobby of Luanda's smartest hotel, there was little doubt who was in charge. The diminutive military commander, General Abreu Kamorteiro, kept a low ...

The former leader of Angola's Unita rebel group, Jonas Savimbi, is being reburied 17 years after his death. Thousands of former Unita fighters wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with images of Savimbi ...

The Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) has ruled for almost five decades, with this recent election victory handing a second term to President João Lourenço. According to the National ...

The coming polls set to take place on 24 August represent Angola’s fifth multi-party elections, the first being in 1992. Although technically parliamentary, the winner of the party that obtains the ...

The death of Jonas Savimbi opens up new opportunities for the Unita movement, which he founded during the struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in the 1960s. With the 1992 elections, Unita had a ...

Joe Biden opposed U.S. support for Angola’s right-wing UNITA rebels, whose chief lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was Paul Manafort. IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT. What we’re seeing right now from ...

The broadcast, monitored in the island state of Sao Tome and Principe, said Unita sent three batallions of fresh troops to attack the southern part of Cuito after lobbing more than 1000 artillery ...

A CEASEFIRE intended to end one of Africa's bloodiest and longest-lasting civil wars was signed yesterday between the Angolan army and the rebels it has been fighting almost constantly for 27 years.