all in short supply in an economy that has yet to finish rebuilding the damage wrought by a civil war that raged from 1975 until 2002, when dos Santos Sr. finally defeated the UNITA rebel movement. In ...

ISBN: 1869193512 Portugal, the first of the European ... leading to protracted brutal wars in Mozambique, Guinea, and Angola, which, although rarely making headlines, inevitably became entangled in ...

After achieving independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola’s fractured liberation movement was quickly hijacked by the Cold War machinations of East and West. The former Soviet Union supported ...

The Angolan government has been campaigning against Portuguese media in Lisbon disseminating Unita war communiques and political statements issued by activists resident in Portugal. Most Unita ...

The Salazar dictatorship has collapsed and the defeat of the Portuguese in the Angolan War of Independence is in sight. The narrator, Rui, is 15 years old. He is one of the thousands of settlers ...

It was not just the United States and Soviets who supported the Angola civil war. Cuba, the apartheid South Africa, Portugal and China also played a part. Sadly, the result of the civil war was about ...

Former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa’s second-biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, is in intensive care at a clinic in Barcelona, Portuguese news agency ...