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 ...

Angolans living in the country's capital city, Luanda, yesterday jubilated after they confirmed the death of rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi in the hands of the forces loyal to the government of President ...

Headlines in Angola and around Southern Africa have been dominated by the death of Unita rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. For Angola's only daily paper - the state-owned Jornal de Angola - the government's ...

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.

The ceremony was touted as a symbol of national reconciliation after decades of war. Thousands of supporters of Angola's former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi rallied for his public reburial on Saturday, ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – The video of his bloodied corpse broadcast around the world last weekend left no doubt that the Angolan government’s claims were true: Jonas Savimbi, the flamboyant rebel ...

U.S. defense officials say the Pentagon had no role in the tracking down and killing of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. "No, unequivocally, no." That is how defense officials respond when asked if ...

"They'll never get near me. Because, if so, they'd have more information. However, they continue to pursue me. But I'm not too worried. Over the past year, we've developed ways to avert this ...

Luanda - As Angolans waited for proof of Jonas Savimbi's death, the news reignited cautious hopes for peace in a country devastated by a war the government and the United Nations blamed him for ...