Unita attacks launch new Angolan war

Article Abstract:

Full-scale civil war has broken out again in Angola, where many thousands of people have been forced from their homes. There have been violent attacks on civilian targets, both by members of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) and by government police and soldiers. Unita leader Jonas Savimbi used the lull in the civil war to retrain and re-equip his troops, and the government forces of President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos have faced fierce opposition. Unita has taken control of almost the whole of Angola's countryside, and new mines have been planted.

Political activity, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, Santos, Jose Eduardo dos, Savimbi, Jonas

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Under siege in Angola's saddest city, where children fight for ears of corn

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The city of Malanje, Angola, has suffered extensive bombardment by soldiers fighting with the Unita rebel movement since the country's civil war resumed in Dec 1998. Food stocks have run out because the rebels have surrounded the city, even attacking trucks carrying food donated by the United Nation's World Food Programme. Local people have begun suffering starvation. A slight break in the fighting allowed the World Food Programme to get some trucks into the city, but it is estimated that much more food will be needed if mass starvation is to be avoided.

Angola

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The dogs ate the dead, the living ate the dogs

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The residents of Kuito, Angola, suffered great hardship during the country's last civil war, when government forces held one half of the city and Unita rebels the other half. An estimated 30,000 civilians died of disease, starvation and war wounds. The city is now in government hands, but is under siege from the Unita rebels, who control all the surrounding countryside. Since the beginning of 1999, 72,000 refugees have entered Kuito, and a camp is being created on the southern fringes of the city.

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