General João Baptista de Matos

Sebastião overly involved himself and the ministry in the day-to-day affairs of the military and fell foul of Chief of Staff João de Matos...

b/d by 2004 and go even higher by 2010 it is not just General João de Matos and his fellow officers who have ideas about Angola as an African powerhouse...

There are mixed reports about the quality of the Angolan troops: some Luanda sources insisted that the FAA Chief of General Staff General João de Matos had pulled his crack forces back home to contend with an increasingly belligerent União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola in the Central Highlands...

The Alfa 5 security group founded jointly by the Forças Armadas Angolanas Chief of Staff General João de Matos and EO will be key for foreign mercenaries if the conflict with the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola escalates (AC Vol 39 No 20)...

João de Matos favours using troops from Cabinda because FAA troops there are under less pressure than regiments in Soyo and M'banza Congo...

In mid-July Dos Santos called a meeting of his kitchen cabinet to devise a new military strategy including the Forças Armadas Angolanas Chief of General Staff João de Matos; the National Security Advisor Gen...

Would-be leaders are preparing the ground: they include Chief of Staff João de Matos Premier Fernando França van Dúnem and Washington Ambassador António Santos França 'Ndalu'...

Sonangol resists the necessary change and is backed by the importers and by the FAA's powerful Chief of Staff General João de Matos...

João de Matos the FAA Commander in Chief is arguing for MONUA to stay...

João de Matos Chief of Staff of the Forças Armadas Angolanas (FAA) announced that all armed groups in the country would be treated as bandits and spoke ominously of ‘retaliatory measures'...