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, ...

Angola’s Jonas Savimbi, legendary guerrilla leader of UNITA (the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), was killed by communist MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) ...

LUANDA, Angola — A year after elections that were supposed to set Angola on the path to freedom and prosperity, this country is worse off than ever before — worse, some believe, than Somalia or Bosnia ...

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 ...

As so many regions of Africa descend into economic and political chaos, American opinion-makers often decry Africans’ seeming inability to govern themselves. However, few of these critics acknowledge ...

João Lourenço, secretary-general of Angola's ruling party, the MPLA, claimed on Monday that Angola did not need any more peace mediators sent from the United Nations, and that peace would only be ...

The children of slain Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi urged a French court on Wednesday to punish the makers of the wildly popular video game "Call of Duty" for representing their father as a ...

The legal battle over the depiction of Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi in the Call of Duty video game is set to continue, according to the lawyer representing Savimbi’s children. A French court on ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The Angolan government reported Friday that rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who has led a struggle for power in that country for almost 30 years, was killed during fighting ...

Three children of Jonas Savimbi launch libel suit in France against the makers of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, demanding €1 million and for the game to be shelved Jonas Savimbi (L) and as a character ...

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 ...