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Article: Angola.(Column)
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- New Internationalist
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- September 1, 2002
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IT is a chilling thought that all children -- and most adults -- in Angola have never known peace. But political events in Angola since February have been unravelling rapidly; not since independence from Portugal in 1975 have the prospects for peace been more real than now. It took the death of the most prominent rebel leader in Africa to bring about the current wind of change: UNITA's Jonas Savimbi died in battle in February after more than a quarter-century of waging war against the MPLA Government.
The MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) was originally a hardline Marxist party backed by Cuba, which meant the UNITA guerrillas initially had ...