JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The death of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who helped drag out one of Africa’s longest-running civil wars, has rekindled hopes for peace in a country ravaged by ...

Former leader of Angola's rebel UNITA movement Jonas Savimbi will be reinterred Saturday, 17 years after he was killed in a shootout with government soldiers that spelt the end to the country's long ...

Thousands of supporters of Angola's former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi rallied for his public funeral on Saturday, 17 years after he was killed by troops in a shootout that marked the end of the ...

Rising hopes for a lasting peace in war-torn Angola have come amid strong calls for the freezing of stolen assets coupled to an investigation into the global links between money and political ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 24 -- The United States and other countries today urged both sides in Angola's 27-year civil war to treat the death of rebel leader Jonas Savimbi as a major opportunity for peace ...

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 ...

LISBON, April 16 (Reuters) - The leader of Angola's main opposition party UNITA, which fought a 27-year long civil war with the government, expects the first parliamentary elections in 16 years to be ...