J onas Savimbi, who has died aged 67, was, for 20 years, a figure as important in southern Africa as Nelson Mandela, and as negative a force as Mandela was positive. For the past 10 years, using the ...

The children of slain Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi will try to convince a French court Wednesday that the wildly popular video game "Call of Duty" defamed their father by representing him as a ...

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 ...

Johannesburg — The veteran British journalist, Fred Bridgland, became well known in the 1980s for his biography of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and his writings about Unita, the movement that ...

Piero Gleijeses, a professor of U.S. foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University, is author of "Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976" (University of North Carolina Press, 2002 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi addressing soldiers in Jamba on December 11, 1985 The children of slain Angolan rebel chief ...

The sight of a man in fatigues stalking around a poor country is guaranteed to arouse the interest of ideologues in richer ones, whatever their persuasion. Yet the recent ‘martyrdom’ of Jonas Savimbi, ...

The family of slain Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi are suing the makers of the popular video game "Call of Duty" for representing his character as a "barbarian", their lawyer said Thursday. Three ...

JONAS SAVIMBI, the Angolan rebel leader who has been shot dead aged 67, received the backing of the West in his battle against Angola's Marxist regime during the Cold War, but later became an ...