Jorge Ornelas Isaac Sangumba (1944–1982) was the Foreign Minister of

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during the

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Background

Sangumba studied in the

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before joining the National Union of Angolan Students (UNEA) in the early 1960s. In 1965 he became UNEA's representative for external affairs, a precursor for his future appointment as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA's) Foreign Minister in August 1969. On February 9, 1976, Sangumba had officially announced that the central Angolan city of Huambo, where two Western-supported nationalist movements proclaimed the establishment of a government the previous November, had fallen to Soviet-supplied Angolan forces led by Cuban troops.

Death and aftermath

Jonas Savimbi, the leader of UNITA, allegedly ordered Sangumba's assassination along with several other potential rivals for leadership of UNITA during the

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. Sangumba's family has been trying to find the reasons that led his murder, but have not found anything out. Tribute videos about him have been posted on sites such as

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Background

Death and aftermath

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