Jonas Malheiro Savimbi

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...

Burkina Faso's President already faces international efforts to rein him in for trading diamonds and weapons with Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola as does Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma who presided over the signing of the Sierra Leone peace accord last July (see US Lobbying feature)...

Its hiring policy seems to encompass the political landscape: Samuels Associates whose partner Whitney Schneidman was close to the Democratic Party and is now Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa and C/R International whose Director Robert Cabelly was Special Assistant to the Republican Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during President Ronald Reagan's strong support for Jonas Savimbi's rebel União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...

The United Nations' latest exercise in naming and shaming sanctions-busters may see the international isolation of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré and Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma for their roles in supplying arms to Jonas Savimbi's Angolan rebels and buying diamonds from them...

Washington wants to cut the diamond lifeline of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola leader Jonas Savimbi...

Commission members claim to have been empowered by Jonas Savimbi to work for negotiations (AC Vol 41 No 2)...

That promise may cheer up his backers in the United States whose help seems to have been crucial to the setbacks suffered by Jonas Savimbi and his União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...

Jonas Savimbi will continue to head its military but exercise less and less control over its political offshoots...

His regional clout in the group that included Angola's Jonas Savimbi Mobutu and Morocco's late King Hassan II has gone overtaken by the end of the Cold War and the death of two key players...

Most dangerously for UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi the loss of Bailundo could sharpen the power struggle within his Ovimbundu ethnic group...