Jonas Malheiro Sidónio Sakaita Savimbi (Portuguese: [ˈʒɔnɐʃ ˈsavĩbi]; 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel...
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Paul Manafort (section Association with Jonas Savimbi)
former dictator of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko, and Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi. Lobbying to serve the interests of foreign governments requires registration...
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Angolan Civil War (1975–2002). Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA, allegedly ordered Chindondo's assassination. Savimbi's successor as president of UNITA...
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Angolan Civil War (section Death of Savimbi)
less numerous peoples of eastern Angola. UNITA was founded in 1966 by Jonas Savimbi, who until then had been a prominent leader of the FNLA. During the...
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Bié Province (section Origins of Jonas Savimbi)
as the place where the family of Angolan political leader Jonas Savimbi came from. Savimbi, although born in Moxico Province near Bié, was ethnically...
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Jamba, Cuando Cubango (section Jonas Savimbi)
1999, Jamba was captured by Angolan military forces. UNITA was led by Jonas Savimbi, a charismatic political and military leader who is generally considered...
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elected president in the 1992 Angolan general election over UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, and presided over free-market economic liberalization and the development...
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Independence of Angola (UNITA) was created in 1966 by Jonas Savimbi, a dissident of FNLA. Jonas Savimbi was the Foreign Minister of the GRAE but in the course...
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Jonas Savimbi on February 22, 2002, Dembo became the President of UNITA. However, Dembo, who was also wounded in the same attack that killed Savimbi,...
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Angola (UNITA) from June 2003 to November 2019. After UNITA leader, Jonas Savimbi and his immediate successor António Dembo died from injuries sustained...
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his murder on UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, who purportedly viewed Chingunji as a political threat. Fred Bridgland, Savimbi's biographer and longtime supporter...
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Revolutionary Government in Exile (GRAE) with Roberto as its President and Jonas Savimbi as its foreign minister, based in Kinshasa, Zaire. It was recognised...
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player Jonas Savimbi, Angolan revolutionary Jonas Sparring, Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian politician Jonas Erikson...
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Mboya. He acquired a Guinean passport and visited the United Nations. Jonas Savimbi, the future leader of UNITA, joined the UPA in February 1961 at the...
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election, held on September 29–30. He was UNITA's second-in-command, after Jonas Savimbi. Chitunda, born in Chimbuelengue to Emilio Chitunda and Rosalina Kalombo...
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Mohamed Siad Barre of Somalia, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and Jonas Savimbi of Angola. According to "The Torturers' Lobby", a report published by...
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FNLA and UNITA, in exchange for their promised support against PLAN. Jonas Savimbi, UNITA's president, claimed he knew where PLAN's camps in southern Angola...
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country. Addressing the Heritage Foundation in October 1989, UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi called the Heritage Foundation's efforts "a source of great support...
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political corruption. He was the godson of UNITA founder and leader Jonas Savimbi. In November 2019, Júnior was elected as president of UNITA, ending...
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There was a ceasefire agreement during 1989, with the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, but it collapsed soon afterwards. As a part of its peace efforts, the...
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held in 1992 reelected Dos Santos with 49% of the votes. His opponent, Jonas Savimbi of the National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) party...
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several historical and real-life characters, including: UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi (Robert Wisdom), Panamanian General Manuel Noriega (Benito Martinez)...
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Pioneiros de Agostinho Neto (Agostinho Neto Pioneer Organization). Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA from 1966 until 2002, was briefly a member of the JMPLA...
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civil war resumed. The war continued until 2002, when UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi was killed. The two parties agreed to a ceasefire, and a plan was laid...
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election, their majority now voted MPLA - because (after the death of Jonas Savimbi) UNITA had lost much of its credibility, but also because strengthening...
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served as UNITA's representative to the United Kingdom. Along with Jonas Savimbi, he was co-founder of UNITA.[citation needed] He has been Angola's ambassador...
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South African media as an attempt to assassinate the rebel leader Dr. Jonas Savimbi, EO found itself under constant UNITA attacks where it lost three of...
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wing of UNITA, from 1979 to January 1985 and again after October 1986. Jonas Savimbi, the leader of UNITA, demoted Chilingutila for UNITA's military failures...
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against the Portuguese in central Angola from 1966 was spearheaded by Jonas Savimbi and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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by UNITA rebels under the command of Jonas Savimbi. Critics have derided his biography of Savimbi, Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa, as the work of an apologist...
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