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Article: Security Council lifts travel ban on UNITA rebels for 90 days to facilitate peace efforts
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- May 17, 2002
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Dateline: UNITED NATIONS
The U.N. Security Council lifted a travel ban on Angola's UNITA rebels
for 90 days on Friday to help push forward a cease-fire signed last
month by rebels and the government in the war-ravaged nation.
A resolution adopted unanimously by the council said that lifting
the travel ban would enable UNITA members to advance the peace process
and national reconciliation and to reorganize following the February
death of rebel leader Jonas Savimbi.
Three previous peace deals brought only brief pauses in Africa's longest-
running civil war, but the international community is cautiously optimistic
that this one might end the conflict that began after ...