Angola's endless war

Article Abstract:

Angola has been involved in a war against Portugal as a colonial power, and then a civil war which has especially affected children, killed by disease, hunger and landmines. Angola was once a battlefield where major powers faced each other, but the conflict has continued with Angolans. Peace agreements were signed in 1992 and 1994, and the conflict is a dispute about power. The United Nations (UN) should not take sides, though it has tended to support the government. Sanctions are not likely to help, and the government itself is breaking the sanctions. The UN should encourage the two sides to negotiate.

Editorial

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Trapped in the middle

Article Abstract:

The United Nations (UN) has been blamed for permitting Angolan rebel group UNITA and its leader, Jonas Savimbi, to accumulate weapons at a time when he was supposed to have been giving them up. The government also failed to help people in areas which UNITA had abandoned and where there was a need for medicine and food. UNITA has advanced more rapidly than expected. A UN aircraft has been shot down with 14 people aboard, and there has been little attempt to search for survivors, and a ceasefire to carry out the task has not been achieved.

International Affairs, Angola, Intnl Terrorist Actions, Terrorism, International offenses, Union for the Total Independence of Angola

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The battle for Huambo

Article Abstract:

Jonas Savimbi's UNITA movement may soon take control of the besieged city of Huambo, a central highlands town populated mainly by Ovimbundu, the main ethnic group in UNITA. As many as 10,000 Angolans may have perished in Huambo, which lacks both water and electricity.

Military aspects, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, Huambo, Angola

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