Moxico Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/moxico/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 28 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Moxico Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/moxico/ 32 32 Old foes battle over reburying remains of Jonas Savimbi https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/old-foes-battle-over-reburying-remains-of-jonas-savimbi/ Tue, 28 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/old-foes-battle-over-reburying-remains-of-jonas-savimbi/ A row between old adversaries in Angola is threatening to derail plans to rebury the remains of rebel leader Jonas Savimbi on Saturday. Both the government and Savimbi’s UNITA  movement are blaming each other. Having fought  one of the longest and bitterest wars in Africa, it is not surprising that Angola’s MPLA-led government and the […]

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]]> A row between old adversaries in Angola is threatening to derail plans to rebury the remains of rebel leader Jonas Savimbi on Saturday.

Both the government and Savimbi’s UNITA  movement are blaming each other.

Having fought  one of the longest and bitterest wars in Africa, it is not surprising that Angola’s MPLA-led government and the former rebel movement UNITA still have their differences.

President Joao Lourenco is hoping that moving  the remains of  Jonas Savimbi from Moxico, where he died in battle 17 years ago, to his hometown of Lopitanga will be a positive act of reconciliation.

UNITA is now saying the government is acting in  bad faith.

The government, counters that UNITA officials were not at the first meeting point in the complex process of moving Savimbi’s remains. 

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