Brigadier Isaías Henriques Ngola Samakuva

Lourenço faces off against UNITA's Isaías Samakuva and Abel Chivukuvuku of the third-largest political force the Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola-Coligação Eleitoral (CASA-CE; AC Vol 57 No 25 Dos Santos picks his man)...

The leader of the opposition União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola Brigadier (Retired) Isaías Samakuva said the BESA affair was 'a police case' with unconstitutional aspects and a lack of transparency...

After well-publicised trips to Europe and the United States by opposition politicians Isaías Samakuva leader of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) and Abel Chivukuvuku of the Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola-Coligação Eleitoral (CASA-CE) Dos Santos gave a rare television interview in June (AC Vol 54 No 10 UNITA's warning)...

’Angola is sitting on a powder keg’ says Isaías Samakuva leader of the main opposition party the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...

The leader of the opposition União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola Brigadier (Retired) Isaías Samakuva reacted to the Fund by telling reporters ‘I don't think Angola is in a position to be creating an SWF...

UNITA leader Brigadier Isaías Samakuva named four Chinese nationals producing what he said were photocopies of their passports and claimed they were all intelligence officers who had conducted training sessions in electoral manipulation for MPLA cadres in a Cabinda hotel...

Less than twelve hours before polling began its leader Brigadier Isaías Samakuva demanded a meeting with President José Eduardo dos Santos and urged that polling be delayed...

The UNITA leader Isaías Samakuva has called a nationwide protest on 25 August against electoral interference by the government saying his party cannot let the elections go ahead with preparations as they stand...

UNITA’s leader Isaías Samakuva called the relationship with China ‘unbalanced’ and said it should be ‘re-evaluated’...

A former intelligence officer Estevão José Pedro Kachiungo is challenging Isaías Samakuva but he is so little known that he has been labelled a dummy candidate...