-
FNLAs main
airbase at
Camabatela was
captured on 1
January and
Negage on 3
January while their capital at
Carmona fell on 4
January and so the
FNLA rout...
-
phase of
conventional fighting, oust the
FNLA from Luanda, and
become the de
facto Angolan government. The
FNLA disintegrated, but the U.S.- and
South Africa-backed...
-
independence fought between the
Angolan nationalist forces of the MPLA,
UNITA and
FNLA, and Portugal. It
began as an
uprising by
Angolans against the Portuguese...
- the MPLA and an ally of
South Africa.
South Africa as well as
UNITA and
FNLA had been
receiving material and
tacit support of the
United States as part...
- the
FNLA,
while communist nations backed the MPLA. Some 4,000
Cuban troops helped to turn back a three-pronged
advance by the SADF, UNITA,
FNLA, and...
-
Independence of
Angola (UNITA) and the
National Liberation Front of
Angola (
FNLA) in the
Angolan Civil War. The
party has
ruled Angola since the country's...
-
politician who
founded and led the
National Liberation Front of
Angola (
FNLA) from 1962 to 1999. Son of
Garcia Diasiwa Roberto and
Joana Lala Nekaka,...
- war
against the
Portuguese administration was
waged by five organizations:
FNLA (founded in 1954), MPLA (1956), FLEC (1963),
UNITA (1966) and RDL (1973)...
- in the
decisive action that
brought him to the
notice of the
FNLA leadership. When
FNLA soldiers fled the
advance of a MPLA force,
which threatened to...
- Democrático de Angola) to join in a
united front with the UPA,
creating the
FNLA (Frente
Nacional de Libertação de Angola) and when
these parties formed the...
