J onas Savimbi, who has died aged 67, was, for 20 years, a figure as important in southern Africa as Nelson Mandela, and as negative a force as Mandela was positive. For the past 10 years, using the ...

Brigadier Wala, who headed the army unit that killed Savimbi, told the Portuguese news agency Lusa he had died like a soldier, "with a gun in his hand". The 67-year-old Unita leader was killed on ...

The ceremony was touted as a symbol of national reconciliation after decades of war. Thousands of supporters of Angola's former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi rallied for his public reburial on Saturday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thet will be burying Jonas Savimbi's body in the village of Lucusse. But yesterday the body of the veteran Unita guerrilla leader, once the favourite of America and the West, was displayed for all the ...

JONAS SAVIMBI was a survivor. He outlasted Cold War rivalries and apartheid South Africa, which financed his long struggle to topple Angola’s Marxist government. After outside support dried up, he ...

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JONAS SAVIMBI, the Angolan rebel leader who has been shot dead aged 67, received the backing of the West in his battle against Angola's Marxist regime during the Cold War, but later became an ...

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 ...