President and Supreme Commander of UNITA (1966–2002)
Battles/wars
Angolan War of Independence Angolan Civil War
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (Portuguese:[ˈʒɔnɐʃˈsavĩbi]; 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). UNITA was one of several groups which waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974. Once independence was achieved, it then became an anti-communist group which confronted the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the Angolan Civil War. Savimbi had extensive contact with anti-communist activists in the United States, including Jack Abramoff and was one of the leading anti-communist voices in the world.[1] Savimbi was killed in a clash with government troops in 2002.[2]
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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (Portuguese: [ˈʒɔnɐʃ ˈsavĩbi]; 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader...
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less numerous peoples of eastern Angola. UNITA was founded in 1966 by JonasSavimbi, who until then had been a prominent leader of the FNLA. During the...
Independence of Angola (UNITA) was created in 1966 by JonasSavimbi, a dissident of FNLA. JonasSavimbi was the Foreign Minister of the GRAE but in the course...
country. Addressing the Heritage Foundation in October 1989, UNITA leader JonasSavimbi called the Heritage Foundation's efforts "a source of great support...
FNLA and UNITA, in exchange for their promised support against PLAN. JonasSavimbi, UNITA's president, claimed he knew where PLAN's camps in southern Angola...
September 29–30. He was UNITA's second in command, after UNITA leader JonasSavimbi. Chitunda, born in Chimbuelengue to Emilio Chitunda and Rosalina Kalombo...
election, their majority now voted MPLA - because (after the death of JonasSavimbi) UNITA had lost much of its credibility, but also because strengthening...
held in 1992 reelected Dos Santos with 49% of the votes. His opponent, JonasSavimbi of the National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) party...
by UNITA rebels under the command of JonasSavimbi. Critics have derided his biography of Savimbi, JonasSavimbi: A Key to Africa, as the work of an apologist...
Revolutionary Government in Exile (GRAE) with Roberto as its President and JonasSavimbi as its foreign minister, based in Kinshasa, Zaire. It was recognised...
nationwide, in an event known as the Halloween Massacre. UNITA leader JonasSavimbi would not accept the results and refused to join the Angolan parliament...
against the Portuguese in central Angola from 1966 was spearheaded by JonasSavimbi and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
Mboya. He acquired a Guinean passport and visited the United Nations. JonasSavimbi, the future leader of UNITA, joined the UPA in February 1961 at the...
Pioneiros de Agostinho Neto (Agostinho Neto Pioneer Organization). JonasSavimbi, leader of UNITA from 1966 until 2002, was briefly a member of the JMPLA...
his murder on UNITA leader JonasSavimbi, who purportedly viewed Chingunji as a political threat. Fred Bridgland Savimbi's biographer and longtime supporter...
Chris (February 25, 2002). "Obituary: JonasSavimbi, Unita's local boy". BBC. Retrieved January 27, 2020. Savimbi, Jonas (January 1986). "The War against Soviet...
civil war resumed. The war continued until 2002, when UNITA leader JonasSavimbi was killed. The two parties promptly agreed to a ceasefire, and a plan...
There was a ceasefire agreement during 1989, with the leader of UNITA, JonasSavimbi, but it collapsed soon afterwards. As a part of its peace efforts, the...
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MPLA (until 1964)
FNLA (1964–66)
UNITA (1966–2002)