How Did Jonas Savimbi Become An Effective Leader?

The guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, whose cunning and ferocity have provoked one of Africa's longest civil wars, was killed today in a battle in eastern Angola, The Rebel Leader of the The United Union for Total Independence of Angola(UNITA) was killed in battle February 22nd, 2002. “Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi fought until the very end”, say officers who have been describing their final gun battle with the man who spent most of the last 40 years in armed conflict.

The 67 Year old rebel leader was killed friday on the bank of the Luvuei river in small town called, Moxico, were MPLA forces found his location and ambushed Jonas Savimbi, shooting and killing him, along with 21 of his bodyguards. The UNITA leader was very hard to find says the leader of the group who killed Jonas Savimbi, Brigadier Wala, Brigadier tells us he was very deceptive, saying he used, “diversionary manoeuvres such as crossing various rivers, including the Luvuei and the Luonze.”
Under the power of Savimbi, MPLA and Unita has been fighting the portuguese for many years before Angola was given its own independence, after the two groups caused the portuguese to retreat they were engaged into a vicious war between each other, claiming 300,000 lives, leaving millions homeless, and reducing Africa to one of the wealthiest nations to one of the