Jonas Malheiro Savimbi

The United Nations is at last getting serious about the massive diamond-smuggling operations which nourish the rebellion of Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...

Since December two offensives by João de Matos' Forças Armadas Angolanas (FAA) on Jonas Savimbi's headquarters at Andulo and Bailundo have resulted in bloody defeats; in former strongholds such as Malanje and Cuito the FAA have allowed UNITA to move in and shell the cowering populations...

Key to UNITA’s success has been the retraining of officers in Morocco (several hundred Moroccan soldiers are said to be helping with logistics and communications in the north-east following meetings in 1998 between Jonas Savimbi and King Hassan II) and help from Francophone sympathisers such as Togo’s Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré with arms procurement and transshipment...

spent and 7 000 peacekeepers deployed in the UN's 1994-98 operation in Angola last December's return to war has discouraged all but the most resolute from trying to foster fresh negotiations between the government and Jonas Savimbi's rebels...

No one in Luanda wants to take the blame for the government's string of military defeats by Jonas Savimbi's rebels over the past five months...

While the conventional wisdom is that neither side can secure an outright victory and that a return to the negotiating table after another year to 18 months of fighting is the most likely outcome few can see the government being prepared to reopen talks with Jonas Savimbi for a third time...

Kagame categorically dismissed accusations that Rwandan or RCD troops were fighting alongside forces from Jonas Savimbi’s União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola: ‘Why would we want to do that ...

Instead we hear that Penza had crossed some of the powerful business interests that have been running the highly lucrative supply of weapons and fuel across to the border to Jonas Savimbi’s União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...

What does Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola hope to gain from the return to all-out war...

UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi has again criticised the government for having too many whites and mesticos ...

Some of them are threatening to go home to Angola whose army wants them to re-enlist in the fight against Jonas Savimbi and UNITA; the Angolan army may yet remove Kabila’s reserve of 6 000 ex-gendarmes now in Viana camp close to Luanda...