Jonas Malheiro Savimbi

Three years ago the war ended with the killing of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi and the excuses are running out...

The Gnassingbé family cherishes the Lomé-Kinshasa axis; Togo helped to smuggle arms to the late Jonas Savimbi's rebels of the União Nacional para a Independência de Angola and we hear that more recently new hardware for Gbagbo's demolished Ivorian airforce was shipped in via Lomé...

UNITA is almost broke and unable to raise money independently although some militants are asking awkward questions about what happened to late leader Jonas Savimbi's multi-million dollar cash pile...

Meanwhile UNITA is a muddled faction-ridden shadow of its former self since the death of its leader Jonas Savimbi in an ambush in February 2002 (AC Vol 43 No 5)...

New developments have helped: the death of rebel leader Jonas Savimbi unblocked peace efforts in Angola; international pressure and tortuous diplomacy produced a power-sharing government and a fragile peace in Congo-K; regional pressure a local rebellion and thousands of UN peacekeepers have produced another fragile peace in Sierra Leone and Liberia...

Among those working for Erinys in Iraq are: South African Vance Myers formerly linked to Israel's Mossad organisation and the late Jonas Savimbi's rebels in Angola; Australian Gary Wright ex-Rhodesian Special Forces and linked to former rebel Mozambican leader Afonso Dhlakama...

DiamondWorks' operations in Angola crashed in 1998 when rebels of Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola attacked the Yetwene alluvial mine in the north-east of the country killing several DiamondWorks' employees...

Investors are entering the expanding oil industry and seeking opportunities in reconstruction after the long war with Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola ended in April 2002...

Luanda withdrew most of its troops after the killing in February 2002 of rebel leader Jonas Savimbi whose União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola forces had used Pointe-Noire as an arms and diamonds entrepot...

Defence devours well over a third of government revenue even though it is some 18 months since the civil war ended after the death of Jonas Savimbi leader of the rebel União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) in February 2002...