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 ...

Angola’s Jonas Savimbi, legendary guerrilla leader of UNITA (the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), was killed by communist MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) ...

The reported death of Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Angolan rebel movement Unita, has raised hopes throughout Angola and the region of an end to the devastating civil war that has dragged on for 27 ...

As so many regions of Africa descend into economic and political chaos, American opinion-makers often decry Africans’ seeming inability to govern themselves. However, few of these critics acknowledge ...

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 ...

LUANDA, Angola, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A reporter for Portuguese state television RTP said he saw Saturday the body of Jonas Savimbi in the first independent account of the Angolan rebel leader's death.