Word: savimbi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CONFLICT A 25-year civil war between elected government and rebel Jonas Savimbi...
...others were queuing at voting stations, thrilled by the prospect of peace. The first free elections, held under U.N. auspices, were designed to end the war between the government of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, once backed by the Soviet Union and now recognized by the U.S., and Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the UNITA rebel movement. Savimbi refused to accept the government's 129-to-91-seat election victory and plunged Angola back into ferocious conflict that has so far claimed an additional 100,000 lives...
...renewed fighting has turned into Frankenstein's monster running amuck, largely beyond the control of its original superpower sponsors. The West, which for years backed Savimbi, overtly and covertly, as an anticommunist African democrat, finds itself with little leverage over a rogue warlord whose control of Angola's diamond deposits could enable him to finance his operations indefinitely. Backed by oil revenues of $3 billion a year, the government too has looked determined to fight to the finish. Thus, unless this week's developments lead to a lasting truce, the worst is perhaps still to come. In the countryside...
...Mobutu never tires of saying, whenever the U.S. needed a favor, he was usually delighted to oblige. He turned over facilities to the CIA in support of Jonas Savimbi, an American client in the still festering Angolan civil war, and helped train forces loyal to Hissene Habre, the West's ousted candidate for leadership in Chad. Zaire chaired the U.N. Security Council in January 1991 when the crucial votes were taken to approve military action against Iraq in the Gulf War. A senior U.S. official says Washington suggested to Kuwait that Mobutu's vote in favor of allied military strikes...
...ANGOLA. The U.N. is blamed for having failed to insist on the disarmament of the UNITA rebel movement in Angola before U.N.-organized elections were held last September to end that country's 16-year civil war. As a result, UNITA head Jonas Savimbi reacted to his first-round election loss to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos by renewing the fighting...