Jonas Malheiro Savimbi

’ The civil war formally ended in 2002 following the killing of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi...

Near the centre of this campaign is veteran Washington lobbyist Riva Levinson who successfully managed press relations in the USA for Jonas Savimbi’s União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels in the 1980s and early 1990s...

Angolan government troops used Israeli technology (and perhaps personnel) to track and kill rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in 2002...

Fêting Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Luanda last month President José Eduardo dos Santos and his colleagues from Sonangol played off the Muscovite former backers of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) against the Beijing-based former backers of late rebel leader Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA)...

Thabo Mbeki never visited Angola as President: Luanda suspected him of maintaining ties with Jonas Savimbi leader of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola during the 1980s and 1990s and the Mbeki-Dos Santos relationship was undermined by the two countries' growing rivalry for regional leadership...

Like UNITA which was dominated by the late Jonas Savimbi the FNLA’S appeal relied on its leader Holden Roberto who died in August 2007...

The story began in 1993 with President José Eduardo dos Santos’s request for arms to fight Jonas Savimbi’s União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels; this was passed by Jean-Bernard Curial the Parti Socialiste’s Africa expert to Bruno Delhaye who advised the French President on African affairs...

Then the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola lost and relaunched its civil war which ended in 2002 with the killing of its veteran leader Jonas Savimbi...

Angolans are waiting for a peace dividend five years after the Forças Armadas Angolanas (FAA) tracked down and killed Jonas Savimbi leader of the rebel União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA)...

The former secretary general of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) Eugenio Manuvakola fled Jonas Savimbi and the bush in 1998 to set up UNITA Renovada in Luanda losing credibility...