Other MPs have stayed with Abel Chivukuvuku's UNITA faction in the Luanda parliament...
Savimbi may distrust Muekalia who was close to the late Tito Chingunji (murdered it is thought by Savimbi) and to Abel Chivukuvuku who now leads a breakaway UNITA group...
Now UNITA's parliamentary leader Abel Chivukuvuku (41) is striking out on his own...
Vol 39 No 22 |
- UNITED NATIONS
The União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola has split into three: the hardline military faction led by Savimbi UNITA Renovada (widely regarded as government poodles) led by Jorge Valentim and a third faction run by UNITA parliamentary leader Abel Chivukuvuku...
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...
Dembo has set up an Executive Council grouping the arrivals from Andulo with figures established in Luanda such as Isaias Samakuva and Abel Chivukuvuku...
Even within UNIT A serious divisions have opened up: Abel Chivukuvuku the current UNITA whip in the National Assembly incurring Savimbi's wrath by leading the UNITA caucus to abstain rather than vote against the government's budget...
Sharing power in the coalition are UNITA's political front line: Abel Chivukuvuku Jorge Valentim Jaka Jamba Marcos Samondo and Vitorino Hossi...
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...
That category includes such prominent UNITA figures as the Minister of Mines and Geology Marcos Samondo; the Tourism Minister Jorge Valentim; the Commerce Minister Victorino Hossi; and members of parliament such as negotiator Samakuva Jaka Jamba and Abel Chivukuvuku...
The premier champion of the moderatec ause UNITA's charismatic Abel Chivukuvuku has reclaimed his place on the Luanda cocktail circuit after surviving the 1992 Battle for Luanda and two years of loose detention by the government – he lived at the expensive Hotel Tivoli...