In support the French government has sought to bring Angola into the charmed circle of Francophonie pressing Côte d'Ivoire and Togo to send delegations to Luanda to discuss halting supplies to Jonas Savimbi's weakened União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...
Jonas Savimbi's União para a Independência Total de Angola has formally disarmed; it has handed back to state control all but five ‘sensitive' locations from the near 70 percent of the country it once controlled; and it has sent most of its senior officials including most recently Vice-President Antonio Dembo to Luanda to lay the foundations for participation in peaceful politics...
Jonas Savimbi is circling the wagons around the planalto heartland of his rebel União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...
João de Matos helped lead a military alliance to among other things isolate Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola and oust his regional supporters Mobutu and Congo-Brazzaville's Pascal Lissouba...
Vol 38 No 25 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
' Kinshasa's changed attitude towards Paris follows months of poisonous relations culminating in the expulsion of France's deputy Ambassador to Congo Eric Lubin a veteran aficionado of Mobutu's circle and of Jonas Savimbi's in Angola...
Barring a last-minute summit between President José Eduardo dos Santos and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi both sides are moving towards another major military confrontation...
This ought to isolate the hard-line element within UNITA; those politicians and soldiers who have chosen to remain with UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi who continues to move between the planalto towns of Andulo and Bailundo saying his personal security could not be guaranteed were he to move to Luanda...
An agreement in principle on Luzamba's diamonds had been hammered out by Jonas Savimbi and Angolan government negotiator Gen...
Luanda think Jonas Savimbi's rebel União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola has been operating sanctions-busting flights through Zambia...
The colonel said the Angolan government was against Chiluba because it believed he was supporting the rebels of Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola ...
Luanda's regional strategy to isolate and encircle Jonas Savimbi and his União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola forces took further shape with President José Eduardo dos Santos' hosting of a summit on 27 October in his Futungo de Belas headquarters for the Presidents of Congo-Brazzaville Congo- Kinshasa and Gabon...
João de Matos the commander of the Forças Armadas Angolanas 90 000 battle hardened troops and another warning to Jonas Savimbi's rebel forces still holed up in Bailundo in Angola's Planalto...