Jonas Malheiro Savimbi

Angola's government is angry because Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola has bases in western Zambia in collusion with local business people and politicians...

Cocksure of its diplomatic and military position the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola has secured parliamentary approval of a new and renewable 60-day amnesty law that wrong-foots both rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and church and civil groups pushing for a negotiated end to the civil war...

In late August a United Nations' mission arrived in the country researching links between African governments and Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) whose arms-for-diamonds aircraft have used Burkina as a staging post...

He was appointed Finance minister in January 1999 when funds were squeezed by war against Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) rebels low oil prices and huge foreign repayments of oil-backed loans...

The original motive for sending in the troops was to close off rebel leader Jonas Savimbi from his rear bases and the profitable Congo-Angola gem trade...

This definition includes all diamonds produced in Sierra Leone which don't come under the government's new certificate of origin scheme all Angolan diamonds from the alluvial areas controlled by Jonas Savimbi's rebels and stones from Kisangani and environs in Congo-Kinshasa...

Yet by bringing together over 20 churches with politicians and non-governmental organisations the Congresso pro Pace went to the centre of Angola's biggest controversy: whether or not the government should ever again to talk to Jonas Savimbi the wily leader of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...

More substantial progress on Africa's conflicts and regional crises was hampered because several states such as Angola and Congo-Kinshasa boycotted the summit in protest at Eyadéma's involvement in trading arms and diamonds with Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi as alleged by Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Fowler in his sanctions investigation...

Botha's regime and Jonas Savimbi's rebels in Angola) Rindle trained and equipped the RUF units to operate alongside Liberian and Burkinabè fighters...

Paris has defended Compaoré against a growing tide of accusations: that he trades diamonds for arms with Jonas Savimbi's rebels in Angola and does the same with Sankoh's RUF...