HIS death had been reported at least 15 times before. So when the news broke that Jonas Savimbi had been shot dead by government troops, Angolans bottled up their glee until they could be sure. Then ...
It was dawn, I was in a Unita rebel camp, deep in the Angolan bush, when, on June 5, 1989, I heard a crackly BBC news bulletin containing three items: Ayatollah Khomeini was dead, tanks had rolled ...
LUANDA, Angola (AP) _ The government displayed the body of Jonas Savimbi, the leader of Angola’s UNITA rebels who was killed in a gunbattle with the army, and appealed to his followers Saturday to end ...
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There are many months remaining in 2002, but there is little doubt that one of the most striking newspaper photographs of the year will be of a dead Jonas Savimbi. It was not just his bloodied, bullet ...
VIANA, Angola, July 19 (Reuters) - Members of Angola's main opposition party streamed into a conference hall on Thursday to cast ballots in a leadership race overshadowed by the ghost of Jonas Savimbi ...
Angolan warlord Jonas Savimbi's children have started libel proceedings in France for €1m (£750,000) in damages against the makers of Call of Duty: Black Ops II due to its depiction of their father.
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 ...
The family of Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi is suing popular game maker Activision for depicting him as a "barbarian" in the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, according to Agence ...
A French court has rejected a case in which the family of late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi sued the makers of Call of Duty over his depiction in the best-selling video game. Three of Savimbi's ...