HIS death had been reported at least 15 times before. So when the news broke that Jonas Savimbi had been shot dead by government troops, Angolans bottled up their glee until they could be sure. Then ...

Piero Gleijeses, a professor of U.S. foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University, is author of "Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976" (University of North Carolina Press, 2002 ...

The reported death of Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Angolan rebel movement Unita, has raised hopes throughout Angola and the region of an end to the devastating civil war that has dragged on for 27 ...

The ceremony was touted as a symbol of national reconciliation after decades of war. Thousands of supporters of Angola's former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi rallied for his public reburial on Saturday, ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The Angolan government reported Friday that rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who has led a struggle for power in that country for almost 30 years, was killed during fighting ...

Brigadier Wala, who headed the army unit that killed Savimbi, told the Portuguese news agency Lusa he had died like a soldier, "with a gun in his hand". The 67-year-old Unita leader was killed on ...

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THE Angolan government has announced that rebel leader Jonas Savimbi was killed on Friday in fighting with government forces in the central-eastern province of Moxico. Angolan presidential ...

ANYONE who has visited Angola can see why the country desperately needs peace. It has been at war since before most Angolans' parents were born. Its fertile soil bristles with mines, its people are ...

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 ...

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 ...