Luanda wants to move ahead with the Lusaka accord so it can reduce its military commitments in Congo-K and devote more to fighting Jonas Savimbi's rebels at home...
The United States calling for 'no talks with terrorists' still wants to prod President José Eduardo dos Santos towards talks with Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels (AC Vol 42 No 17); UNITA's old friends in George W...
He also claims he saw fake Angolan kwanzas being printed allegedly ordered by rebel leader Jonas Savimbi on a visit to the factory...
But like Jonas Savimbi of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola he faces retribution after he loses office and he likes to keep his opponents off guard...
Rebel leader Jonas Savimbi has a cruel sense of timing...
Vol 42 No 9 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Gbagbo has pleased many by reversing his predecessors' support for UNITA; he has withdrawn diplomatic passports from UNITA people including members of Jonas Savimbi's family...
The government may be getting ready to talk to its arch-enemy Jonas Savimbi of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...
Vol 42 No 5 |
- ANGOLA
- FRANCE
Apart from supplying Russian arms to the Dos Santos government after Jonas Savimbi restarted the rebel war in 1992 Falcone also helped Luanda procure two French-made surveillance systems for satellite and cellular telephones last year - although the exports were not licensed...
Vol 42 No 3 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
So when UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi rejected the result of the October 1992 elections and launched a highly effective 'war of the cities' the MPLA could mount little effective defence...
Vol 42 No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Angola's main strategic aim in the Congos is clear: to close down the rear bases of Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...