Gato's management commission has eleven members from UNITA's armed wing and two from overseas Isaías Samakuva from Paris and Ernesto Mulato formerly the Germany representative and (along with Chiwale) a survivor of the group that helped Savimbi to set up UNITA in 1966...
But really critical will be the reaction of former foreign affairs spokesman Abel Chivukuvuku and education secretary Jaka Jamba in Luanda and former military negotiator Brigadier Isaías Samakuva in Paris...
The most important is the unofficial Paris-based Brigadier Isaías Samakuva regarded as a principled and dignified UNITA stalwart though not exactly charismatic or a real leadership contender...
The MPLA is unfussed that the UN and the Troika have for some time been talking to UNITA officials notably to Savimbi's impressive Paris-based representative Brigadier Isaías Samakuva...
UNITA International: whose known coordinators - Jardo Muekelia Washington; Brigadier Isaias Samakuva Paris; Marques Kakumba Côte d'Ivoire; plus a network of lesser known political and financial runners - are under investigation by the government and the UN sanctions committee...
Savimbi's confidants such as Isaías Samakuva (now appealing against France's refusal of political asylum) are stuck...
Within days Védrine had ordered the expulsion of UNITA’s Paris representative the highly regarded Brigadier Isaias Samakuva...
Senior UNITA officials such as Azevedo Kanganje and Isaías Samakuva claim that all their 'new' weapons were either captured from the Angolan army or traded for diamonds by corrupt Angolan senior officers...
So did the impressive Brigadier Isaías Samakuva UNITA's former Representative on the Joint Commission meant to oversee implementation of the peace accords...
Welcoming Wambu Chivukuvuku also failed to recruit Brigadier Isaías Samakuva UNITA's highly regarded former spokesperson on the Joint Military and Political Commission and one of the most respected figures nationwide who has fled into exile in France...
