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The Angolan Civil War ( Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975. It was a power struggle between two former anti-colonial guerrilla movements, the communist People's ...
In the 1980s in Angola, fighting spread outward from the southeast, where most of the fighting had taken place in the 1970s, as the African National Congress (ANC) and SWAPO increased their activity. The South African government responded by sending troops back into Angola, intervening in the war from 1981 to 1987, [1] prompting the Soviet ...
The Cuban intervention in Angola (codenamed Operation Carlota) began on 5 November 1975, when Cuba sent combat troops in support of the communist -aligned People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against the pro- western National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA).
MK's presence in Angola inevitably embroiled it in the Angolan Civil War. In August 1983, an MK battalion was deployed against the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) insurgents near Kibashe. [86] In 1986, three battalions of newly trained MK recruits were deployed to guard FAPLA rear areas during Operation Alpha ...
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the " Alcatraz of the South ", " The Angola Plantation " and " The Farm " [ 8]) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is named "Angola" after the former slave plantation that occupied this territory.
v. t. e. The Battle of Cuito Cuanavalewas fought intermittently between 14 August 1987 and 23 March 1988, south and east of the town of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, by the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola(FAPLA) and Cubaagainst South Africaand the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola(UNITA) during the Angolan Civil ...
Portuguese Angola. 4 February 1961 – 25 April 1974 Angolan War of Independence. 11 November 1975 – 4 April 2002 Angolan Civil War. September 1987 – March 1988 Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. 8 November 1975 – Present Cabinda War.
The Angolan War of Independence was a conflict from 1961 until 1974. It was the first of a series of wars that would be known as the Portuguese Colonial Wars. The conflict was fought by Angolan rebels against the Portuguese Armed Forces. The rebels received aid from the Soviet Union while the Portuguese Armed Forces received military support ...