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 ...

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 in ...

Angola's government and the main opposition UNITA party on Tuesday traded accusations over the handover of the body of rebel chief Jonas Savimbi, who is due to be reburied in his hometown on June 1.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The Angolan government reported Friday that rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who has led a struggle for power in that country for almost 30 years, was killed during fighting ...

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 ...

LUANDA, Angola (AP) – Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel group that has fought the government and frustrated peace efforts for nearly three decades, was killed Friday in a military attack on UNITA ...

LUANDA, Angola -- Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel group that has fought the government and frustrated peace efforts for nearly three decades, was killed Friday in a military attack on UNITA forces ...

Jonas SavimbiJohn Ydstie speaks with Akwae Amosu, the Executive Editor of www.allafrica.com about the political biography of Jonas Savimbi, the UNITA rebel leader in Angola. The Angolan army announced ...

Scott Simon talks to former Israeli Ambassador to Angola Tamar Golan, who's remained in Angola to work for removal of mines throughout the country. She says the death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi ...

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 ...

The children of Jonas Savimbi - founder and former leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) - have launched legal action against Activision Blizzard over their ...