HIS death had been reported at least 15 times before. So when the news broke that Jonas Savimbi had been shot dead by government troops, Angolans bottled up their glee until they could be sure. Then ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The Angolan government reported Friday that rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who has led a struggle for power in that country for almost 30 years, was killed during fighting ...

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Piero Gleijeses, a professor of U.S. foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University, is author of "Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976" (University of North Carolina Press, 2002 ...

LUANDA, Angola (AP) _ The government displayed the body of Jonas Savimbi, the leader of Angola’s UNITA rebels who was killed in a gunbattle with the army, and appealed to his followers Saturday to end ...

Former leader of Angola's rebel UNITA movement Jonas Savimbi will be reinterred Saturday, 17 years after he was killed in a shootout with government soldiers that spelt the end to the country's long ...

LUANDA: The body of Angola rebel chief Jonas Savimbi, killed in 2002, will be exhumed before the end of the year so it be can be buried "with dignity," his party said Wednesday. Isaias Samakuva, the ...

The former leader of Angola's Unita rebel group, Jonas Savimbi, is being reburied 17 years after his death. Thousands of former Unita fighters wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with images of Mr ...

ANYONE who has visited Angola can see why the country desperately needs peace. It has been at war since before most Angolans' parents were born. Its fertile soil bristles with mines, its people are ...