I was working for the World Food Programme during Angola’s civil war, a 27-year conflict involving ... Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and Soviet-supported Popular Movement ...

Ultimately, in 1998, UNITA’s refusal to demobilise ... Sudan must learn from Angola’s 27-year-long civil war, and the failures of the Lusaka Protocol. Although several African leaders, who ...

factional infighting escalated into a full blown civil war between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita).

This book examines the internal politics of the war that divided Angola for more than a quarter-century after ... he is unique because he does not show a scintilla of preference between the MPLA and ...

is meant to celebrate the end of civil war between the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), two rival ...

Angola's Unita rebel movement said yesterday that it ... which is effectively in tatters after the civil war that plagued Angola since independence from Portugal in 1975 re-erupted in earnest.- ...

The Cubans had not fought Unita in the south since the 1984 Lusaka agreement where ... who had been a leader in the 1975 Angolan war as well as in Ethiopia and Congo, fought a brilliant campaign ...

The day was not without violent incident — four protesters, shot dead by government security force members, were the day’s only casualties — but, by and large, political commentators hailed the ...

But things have changed drastically since 2002, when the rebel party, UNITA, suffered a crushing ... discuss the legacy of decades of war and their hopes for Angola’s future.

On Thursday, March 20, the Angolan government and former National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) rebels inaugurate ... In 1341, in the Hundred Years War, an alliance was ...

On April 25, 1974, the Carnation Revolution marked a turning point for Portugal and its colonies in Africa. Fifty years later, links between the Lusophone countries are stronger than ever -- with a ...