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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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    Angolan Civil War (1975–2002). Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA, allegedly ordered Chidondo's assassination. Savimbi's successor as president of UNITA...
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    former dictator of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko, and Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi. Lobbying to serve the interests of foreign governments requires registration...
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    less numerous peoples of eastern Angola. UNITA was founded in 1966 by Jonas Savimbi, who until then had been a prominent leader of the FNLA. During the...
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  • 1999, Jamba was captured by Angolan military forces. UNITA was led by Jonas Savimbi, a charismatic political and military leader who is generally considered...
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    as the place where the family of Angolan political leader Jonas Savimbi came from. Savimbi, although born in Moxico Province near Bié, was ethnically...
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    Independence of Angola (UNITA) was created in 1966 by Jonas Savimbi, a dissident of FNLA. Jonas Savimbi was the Foreign Minister of the GRAE but in the course...
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    Angola (UNITA) from June 2003 to November 2019. After UNITA leader, Jonas Savimbi and his immediate successor António Dembo died from injuries sustained...
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    elected president in the 1992 Angolan general election over UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, and presided over free-market economic liberalization and the development...
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  • leader Jonas Savimbi on February 22, 2002, Dembo became the President of UNITA. However, Dembo was also wounded in the same attack that killed Savimbi and...
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  • vaccine Jonas Savimbi, Angolan revolutionary Jonas Sparring, Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian politician Jonas Erikson...
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    He has campaigned against public corruption. He was the godson of Jonas Savimbi. In November 2019, Júnior was elected as president of the UNITA, ending...
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    country. Addressing the Heritage Foundation in October 1989, UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi called the Heritage Foundation's efforts "a source of great support...
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    September 29–30. He was UNITA's second in command, after UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi. Chitunda, born in Chimbuelengue to Emilio Chitunda and Rosalina Kalombo...
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    Mboya. He acquired a Guinean passport and visited the United Nations. Jonas Savimbi, the future leader of UNITA, joined the UPA in February 1961 at the...
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    Revolutionary Government in Exile (GRAE) with Roberto as its President and Jonas Savimbi as its foreign minister, based in Kinshasa, Zaire. It was recognised...
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  • his murder on UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, who purportedly viewed Chingunji as a political threat. Fred Bridgland Savimbi's biographer and longtime supporter...
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    election, their majority now voted MPLA - because (after the death of Jonas Savimbi) UNITA had lost much of its credibility, but also because strengthening...
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    against the Portuguese in central Angola from 1966 was spearheaded by Jonas Savimbi and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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    FNLA and UNITA, in exchange for their promised support against PLAN. Jonas Savimbi, UNITA's president, claimed he knew where PLAN's camps in southern Angola...
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  • by UNITA rebels under the command of Jonas Savimbi. Critics have derided his biography of Savimbi, Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa, as the work of an apologist...
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    November 1975, for the zones they controlled with Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi as co-presidents of the Angolan People's Democratic Republic in Huambo...
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    held in 1992 reelected Dos Santos with 49% of the votes. His opponent, Jonas Savimbi of the National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) party...
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    nationwide, in an event known as the Halloween Massacre. UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi would not accept the results and refused to join the Angolan parliament...
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  • South African media as an attempt to assassinate the rebel leader Dr. Jonas Savimbi, EO found itself under constant UNITA attacks where it lost three of...
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  • Pioneiros de Agostinho Neto (Agostinho Neto Pioneer Organization). Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA from 1966 until 2002, was briefly a member of the JMPLA...
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  • several historical and real-life characters, including: UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi (Robert Wisdom), Panamanian General Manuel Noriega (Benito Martinez)...
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    There was a ceasefire agreement during 1989, with the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, but it collapsed soon afterwards. As a part of its peace efforts, the...
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    civil war resumed. The war continued until 2002, when UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi was killed. The two parties promptly agreed to a ceasefire, and a plan...
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  • Chris (February 25, 2002). "Obituary: Jonas Savimbi, Unita's local boy". BBC. Retrieved January 27, 2020. Savimbi, Jonas (January 1986). "The War against Soviet...
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