UNITA too must resolve its leadership a year after the killing of Jonas Savimbi (AC Vol 43 No 5)...
Many fear the MCA will become an instrument of US foreign policy for backing 'friends of Washington' in the Mobutu Sese Seko or Jonas Savimbi mould...
Its civil war ended last April after the death of Jonas Savimbi...
Gato took over as acting leader of UNITA almost immediately after its founding leader Jonas Savimbi was shot dead in February 2002 (AC Vol 43 No 5)...
Eight months after the violent death of Jonas Malheiro Savimbi the oil-financed élite of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola is neutering his União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (AC Vol 43 Nos 8 & 12)...
Ibrahim Gambari the Nigerian who heads the ineffectual UN Mission in Angola (UNMA) as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Special Representative insisted on meeting Valentim who despite his noisy complaints was excluded from the Joint Commission (JC) to oversee the 1994 Lusaka accords which were resuscitated following Jonas Savimbi's death...
The pilot said he had been introduced to Katoto by Jacques 'Kiki' Lemaire a Belgian transport contractor based in South Africa; Lemaire and Chungu were among those named as supplying arms and fuel to Angola's rebel União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola in violation of United Nations sanctions against the late Jonas Savimbi's UNITA...
The death of Jonas Savimbi leader of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola and the resulting Angolan peace accord have deprived the Ninjas of a source of weapons...
He rejected a request from the late UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi to visit Lusaka in January (he was located in south-eastern Angola and killed a month later) after pressure from President José Eduardo dos Santos' government...
The first two are well known: the killing on 22 February of Jonas Savimbi creator of UNITA whose ambition for absolute power at any cost drove the conflict; and the fact that the army had practically won even before his death (AC Vol 43 No 5)...
then return to the battlefield after Jonas Savimbi refused to accept the result...
