Thet will be burying Jonas Savimbi's body in the village of Lucusse. But yesterday the body of the veteran Unita guerrilla leader, once the favourite of America and the West, was displayed for all the ...

Nairobi - Africans had few kind words for Jonas Savimbi on Sunday, blaming the Angolan guerrilla leader for countless deaths and saying his own might now bring peace. Many pointed to his links to ...

General Abilio Kamalata Numa was one of thirteen people present in Dr Jonas Savimbi’s party when the rebel leader was killed near Lucusse in Angola’s Moxico province on 22 February 2002. From 2000 and ...

The Unita rebel movement has set up a political commission to run the organisation until a congress can be held to elect a new leadership. Unita leaders met on Tuesday in Luanda to discuss the future ...

Angolan main opposition Unita party is demanding better recognition of its founder Jonas Savimbi. Unita's President Isaías Samakuva regretted that the ruling MPLA party had a tendency of denigrating ...

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Dr. Tajudeen Abdul Raheem, a political analyst and General Secretary of the Global Pan-African Movement, said the exit of Mr. Savimbi has great implications both for the government and the UNITA ...

Johannesburg — The death of veteran Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi has added new impetus to the search for a settlement to the country's long-running civil war, analysts told IRIN over the weekend ...