UNITA Leader, Jonas Savimbi fell in battle last weekend. His death ends one of the most colourful, controversial and bloody lifestyles to be recorded on the African continent. He meant different ...

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The former leader of Angola's Unita rebel group, Jonas Savimbi, is being reburied 17 years after his death. Thousands of former Unita fighters wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with images of Savimbi ...

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 ...

Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Angolan rebel movement Unita, has said that he will only resume negotiations with the government if it stops its attacks on Unita positions. Mr Savimbi told the BBC that ...

Nairobi - Africans had few kind words for Jonas Savimbi on Sunday, blaming the Angolan guerrilla leader for countless deaths and saying his own might now bring peace. Many pointed to his links to ...

But in his heyday, Savimbi had a formidable selection of allies and acolytes. Fighting against an Angolan Government which deployed thousands of Cuban troops and enjoyed strong support from the former ...

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 ...

Jonas Savimbi depicted in 1985 - and in his virtual appearance in Call of Duty The family of late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi are suing the makers of Call of Duty over his depiction in the best ...

Jonas Savimbi depicted in 1985 - and in his virtual appearance in Call of Duty A French court has rejected a case in which the family of late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi sued the makers of Call ...

Transformation is a long word on the African continent. Almost as long as Angola’s civil war, which raged from independence from Portugal in 1975 until April 2002’s peace deal between the government ...