However UNITA's most credible representatives in Luanda UNITA parliamentary leader Abel Chivukuvuku his deputy Armindo Kassessa and Isaías Samakuva refused to join the dissidents...
Concern is mounting about the well-being of UNITA's chief negotiator Isaias Samakuva...
Dembo has set up an Executive Council grouping the arrivals from Andulo with figures established in Luanda such as Isaias Samakuva and Abel Chivukuvuku...
Arlindo Chenda Pena ‘Ben Ben' and Brigadier Isaías Samakuva they are increasingly seen as semi-detached from Bailundo...
Under greater pressure than for over two decades Savimbi can maintain UNITA as a diminished guerrilla force (intelligence sources suggest he has at least 15 000 battle-hardened and well equipped cadres in Bailundo) or he can join his UNITA colleagues in Luanda such as Jorge Valentim and Brigadier Isaias Samakuva who believe UNITA should work with the Lusaka peace accord...
This means exemptions for those individuals in ministerial positions in April's Government of National Unity and Reconciliation (including such UNITA heavyweights as Jorge Valentim Marcos Samondo and Vitorino Hossi) the 70 elected deputies who have taken up their seats in the National Assembly (including UNITA's chief negotiator in the peace process Brigadier Isaias Samakuva and senior UNITA officials such as Abel Chivukuvuku and Jaka Jamba) and former UNITA generals who are now serving in the unified Angolan army (including Gen...
In early August UNITA's chief negotiator in Luanda Isaías Samakuva gave MONUA a document claiming it had just over 5 000 men with a few hundred light weapons scattered across the country...
Vice-Interior Minister Miguel N'zau Puna a UNITA defector and UNITA Luanda spokesman Isaias Samakuva were beaten and called 'traitors'...
They claim that Isaías Samakuva who led UNITA's return to Luanda after the cease-fire gets on better at times with his MPLA counterparts than with Savimbi...