In September 1988, Tito Chingunji, at the time Unita’s foreign secretary in the United States, phoned and asked me to fly to Washington: he needed to talk to me urgently. I asked what this was about.

J onas Savimbi, who has died aged 67, was, for 20 years, a figure as important in southern Africa as Nelson Mandela, and as negative a force as Mandela was positive. For the past 10 years, using the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi addressing soldiers in Jamba on December 11, 1985 The children of slain Angolan rebel chief ...

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 ...

Luanda - Angola edged in the direction of a ceasefire in Africa's longest-running civil war on Monday amid growing international calls for renewed peace efforts after the death of rebel leader Jonas ...

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, ...

Fred Bridgland recalls how Jonas Savimbi, the veteran Angolan rebel chief who was finally shot dead in fighting last week, once berated him, threatened his life and killed his closest African friend I ...

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 ...

Thousands of supporters of Angola’s former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi rallied for his public reburial on Saturday, 17 years after he was killed by troops in a shootout that marked the end of the ...

The children of slain Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi will try to convince a French court Wednesday that the wildly popular video game "Call of Duty" defamed their father by representing him as a ...

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 ...

The family of slain Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi are suing the makers of the popular video game "Call of Duty" for representing his character as a "barbarian", their lawyer said Thursday. Three ...