There were supporters of the losing candidates and defenders of the thesis that the UNITA leadership belonged to people from the Bié region such as the late Jonas Savimbi and Isaías Samakuva who succeeded him...
More youthful outspoken and pugnacious than his predecessor Isaias Samakuva Adalberto has taken his challenge to another level by striking a deal with two other opposition leaders – Abel Chivukuvuku leader of PRA-JA Servir Angola and Bloco Democrático's Filomeno Vieira Lopes previously part of the Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola - Coligação Eleitoral coalition...
The new leader of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola Adalberto da Costa Junior is outspoken and pugnacious unlike his more diplomatic and conciliatory predecessor Isaias Samakuva...
Lourenço faces off against UNITA's Isaías Samakuva and Abel Chivukuvuku of the third-largest political force the Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola-Coligação Eleitoral (CASA-CE; AC Vol 57 No 25 Dos Santos picks his man)...
The leader of the opposition União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola Brigadier (Retired) Isaías Samakuva said the BESA affair was 'a police case' with unconstitutional aspects and a lack of transparency...
After well-publicised trips to Europe and the United States by opposition politicians Isaías Samakuva leader of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) and Abel Chivukuvuku of the Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola-Coligação Eleitoral (CASA-CE) Dos Santos gave a rare television interview in June (AC Vol 54 No 10 UNITA's warning)...
’Angola is sitting on a powder keg’ says Isaías Samakuva leader of the main opposition party the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...
The leader of the opposition União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola Brigadier (Retired) Isaías Samakuva reacted to the Fund by telling reporters ‘I don't think Angola is in a position to be creating an SWF...
UNITA leader Brigadier Isaías Samakuva named four Chinese nationals producing what he said were photocopies of their passports and claimed they were all intelligence officers who had conducted training sessions in electoral manipulation for MPLA cadres in a Cabinda hotel...
Less than twelve hours before polling began its leader Brigadier Isaías Samakuva demanded a meeting with President José Eduardo dos Santos and urged that polling be delayed...