Growing up in the 1990s, I witnessed Zambia stand tall as a beacon of peace—not just in the region, but across the African continent. Under the leadership of our then-president, Frederick Chiluba, ...

Elefant later claimed that he even turned into a sort of renegade intelligence source, providing information from Mann to the infamously violent rebel commander of Angola, Jonas Savimbi: ...

The CIA covertly supported Angolan rebel Jonas Savimbi before developing close cooperation with the government he fought for decades. America has sought to directly counter Russian and Chinese ...

a move that helped turn the tide against the forces of Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA opposition movement. EO was also heavily involved in the civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. Other work secured ...

In what is being billed as a rare moment of national unity, the historic leader of Angola's rebel UNITA movement, Jonas Savimbi, will get a public funeral on Saturday, 17 years after he was killed ...

Key dates in the life of Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi, who was killed in a fight with government forces in 2002 and is to be reburied on Saturday: Savimbi, pictured in 1996 P Pulse News ...

The armed gangs of Haiti have a very clear assessment of their power as movers and shakers of the country’s future. The relationship between Pretoria and Moscow was forged in the apartheid era ...

Over the following decades countless right-wing strongmen—Pinochet, Franco, António de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal’s fascist Estado Novo regime, Jonas Savimbi (portrayed with straight faces ...

In 1986, Jeane Kirkpatrick, formerly Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations, enthused over Angolan militia leader Jonas Savimbi. Speaking at a meeting of the Conservative Political ...

Hemedti is more similar to Jonas Savimbi, the founder of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), than any other political figure in Africa. Following a power struggle that ...

Angolan security forces have carried out more than a dozen unlawful killings and numerous other serious abuses against political activists and peaceful protesters since January 2023. Angolan ...