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    The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, abbr. MPLA), for some years[when?] called the...
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    armed wing of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) but later (1975–1991) became Angola's official armed forces when the MPLA took...
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    movement fighting for the independence of the Angolan province of Cabinda. Formerly under Portuguese administration, with the independence of Angola from...
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    The National Front for the Liberation of Angola (Portuguese: Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola; abbreviated FNLA) is a political party and former...
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  • The 8th Secretariat of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), officially the 8th Secretariat of the Political Bureau of the MPLA Central...
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  • Popular Movement (Mouvement Populaire Algérien, founded 2013) People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, MPLA...
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  • Thumbnail for Wars of national liberation
    Wars of national liberation, also called wars of independence or wars of liberation, are conflicts fought by nations to gain independence. The term is...
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    Independence of Angola (UNITA), the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) signed the Alvor...
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    The People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was the military wing of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO). It fought against the South...
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  • form the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in December 1956. Africa Year Book and Who's who, 1977. Page 238. Tvedten, Inge. Angola: Struggle...
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    Assembly is the only legislative chamber at the national level. The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has held a majority in the Assembly...
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    1956, the early beginnings of a guerrilla independence movement against Portuguese rule, led by the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)...
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    Republic. The country descended into a devastating civil war the same year, between the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), backed...
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    movements, the communist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the anti-communist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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    African People's Democratic Organisation Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola South African Border War South West Africa National Union SWAPO for Justice...
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    UNITA and to drive South Africa out of the country, in 1987 the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA), with Soviet support, launched...
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  • Eugénio César Laborinho (category Government of Angola)
    an Angolan Lieutenant General and politician of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA); Governor of Cabinda Province; Minister of Interior...
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    political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought alongside the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the Angolan War for Independence...
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    The People's Republic of Mozambique was established when the country gained independence from Portugal in June 1975 and the Mozambican Liberation Front...
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  • photographer who worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo Nito Alves (1945–1977), member of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola Mário Pinto de Andrade...
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  • independence National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), Group that fought for Angolan independence National Liberation Front – Bahrain (NLF), Marxist Leninist...
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  • December 1956 it merged into the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). Shantz, Jeff. "Angolan national liberation, 1961–1974." Blackwell Reference...
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    and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990. It was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia...
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  • Thumbnail for Portuguese Angola
    of Angola became an overseas province of Portugal. In the late 1950s the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the People's Movement for...
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    communist-aligned People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against the pro-western National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and...
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  • Libertação de Moçambique, lit. 'Liberation Front of Mozambique') is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It is the dominant party in Mozambique...
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    José Eduardo dos Santos (category People of the Angolan Civil War)
    president of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the party that has ruled Angola since it won independence in 1975. By the time he...
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    Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) began competing for dominance in the country. Fighting began in November...
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    Agostinho Neto (category Presidents of Angola)
    the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence (1961–1974). Until his death, he led the MPLA in the civil war (1975–2002). Known also for his...
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    the Amilcar Cabral Committees (Comités Amilcar Cabral; CAC). The CAC were founded in 1974 inside the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)...
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