The first civil war, ended by a fragile ceasefire, was followed in 1992 by renewed conflict, without the foreign forces, that continued, despite ongoing negotiations, through to the assassination of Jonas Savimbi in 2002. It had additionally become a personal war; UNITA finally became ...
field studies were curtailed by the instabilities of an extended civil war. It was not until after the peace settlement of 2002 that a new wave of research has been possible. Initial
Savimbi continued to wage a disruptive guerrilla war against the MPLA throughout the 1970s and ’80s. In 1991 he signed a peace agreement with the MPLA-led Angolan government that halted the civil war and resulted in free, multiparty national elections in 1992. After losing these elections, ...