How Angola's legendary rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, turned on his friends and killed them in droves. THE LAST WORD \| Andrew M. Mwenda \| A couple of months ago, while visiting Gen ...

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 ...

Back on Nov. 22 President Reagan fielded a reporter’s question about Jonas Savimbi. In his address to Congress the night before, the president had said that “we will continue to support the heroic ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – The video of his bloodied corpse broadcast around the world last weekend left no doubt that the Angolan government’s claims were true: Jonas Savimbi, the flamboyant rebel ...

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 ...

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Crowing like a cock and flailing his arms wildly, Jonas Savimbi, the guerrilla-leader-turned-presidential candidate, demonstrates why he is considered one of Africa`s most electrifying demagogues.

Key dates in the life of Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi, who was killed in a fight with government forces in 2002 and is to be reburied on Saturday: Savimbi, pictured in 1996 P Pulse News Agency ...

Angola's main opposition party, the former rebel movement UNITA, said Wednesday it planned to go ahead with a public funeral this weekend for its ex-leader Jonas Savimbi after a dispute with 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 ...