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Article: Why Angola's rebels will fight on. And on.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 27, 1993
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TEENAGE boys in shredded green fatigues smile shyly as they stand in the hangars of the former government air base at Negage, in Angola's northern hills. Next to them lie half a dozen skeletons of Russian-made Mig jets and attack helicopters, even a flight simulator, which they have stripped of every detachable part. What was once a strategic base for the government's mighty air force has been reduced to a long, overgrown strip of tarmac and an outdoor museum of rotting metal.
The rebel soldiers, loyal to Jonas Sav-imbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), captured Negage, along with Uige, the provincial capital, exactly a year ago--and just ...