Heads Of State Of The Democratic People's Republic Of Angola
(Bold italics in name indicates popular nickname) Affiliations Sources * * ''African States and Rulers'', John Stewart, McFarland * ''Heads of State and Government, 2nd Edition'', John V da Graca, MacMillan Press 2000 See also *Angola **Democratic People's Republic of Angola **Heads of state of Angola **Heads of government of Angola **Colonial heads of Angola ** Heads of government of the Democratic People's Republic of Angola *Lists of office-holders These are lists of incumbents (individuals holding offices or positions), including heads of states or of subnational entities. A historical discipline, archontology, focuses on the study of past and current office holders. Incumbents may also ... {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Heads Of State Of the Democratic People's Republic Of Angola Government of Angola Political history of Angola ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Holden Álvaro Roberto
Álvaro Holden Necaca Roberto Diasiwa (Angolan ; January 12, 1923 – August 2, 2007) was an Angolan politician who founded and led the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) from 1962 to 1999. Early life Son of Roberto Garcia Diasiwa and Ana Joana Helena Lala Necaca, and a descendant of the royal family of the Kingdom of Kongo, Kongo Kingdom, Álvaro Holden Necaca Roberto Diasiwa was born in São Salvador, Angola, São Salvador in the far north of Portuguese Angola, Angola. His family moved to Léopoldville, in the Belgian Congo, in 1925. In 1940, he graduated from a Baptist mission school. He worked for the Belgian Finance Ministry in Léopoldville, Costermansville, and Kisangani, Stanleyville for eight years. In 1949, Roberto moved back to Léopoldville, where he joined his uncle in playing for the local "Nomads" football side. Roberto went on to play for Daring Club Motema Pembe, alongside the later Congolese Prime Minister, Cyrille Adoula. In 1951, he visited Angola a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jonas Savimbi
Jonas Malheiro Sidónio Sakaita Savimbi (; 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA). UNITA was one of several groups which waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974. Once independence was achieved, it then became an anti-communist group which confronted the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the Angolan Civil War. Savimbi had extensive contact with anti-communist activists in the United States, including Jack Abramoff and was one of the leading anti-communist voices in the world. Savimbi was killed in a clash with government troops in 2002. Early life Jonas Malheiro Sidónio Sakaita Savimbi was born in Munhango, Bié Province, a small town on the Benguela Railway, and raised in Chilesso, in the same province. Savimbi's father, Lote, was a stationmaster on Angola's ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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People's Republic Of Angola
The People's Republic of Angola () was the self-declared people's democratic state which governed Angola from its independence in 1975 until 25 August 1992, during the Angolan Civil War. It was led by the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, which won the civil war and has since governed the country as a social democratic republic. History War of Independence, 1961–1975 In 1961, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), based in neighbouring countries, launched a guerrilla campaign against Portuguese rule in Angola, in what was called the Overseas Province of Angola. In 1966, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) joined the struggle for independence against Portugal. The MPLA was Marxist-Leninist and backed by both Cuba and the Soviet Union. UNITA was primarily backed by China. The war lasted until the overthrow of Portugal's Estado Novo regime in 1974 through the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paulo Lukamba Gato
Armindo Lucas Paulo Lukamba "Gato" (born May 18, 1954, in Bailundo) is a politician, diplomat, internationalist and general of the Angolan Army, one of the most important leaders of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Led UNITA, a former anti-colonial movement that fought against the MPLA in the Angolan Civil War, from the death of António Dembo on March 3, 2002Angola in Peace ''African Geopolitics'' quarterly magazine until he lost the 2003 leadership election to Isaías Samakuva. History Lukamba Gato was born in Bailundo, in the province of[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Frente Nacional De Libertação De Angola
The National Front for the Liberation of Angola (; abbreviated FNLA) is a political party and former militant organisation that fought for Angolan independence from Portugal in the war of independence, under the leadership of Holden Roberto. Founded in 1954 as the União dos Povos do Norte de Angola guerrilla movement, it was known after 1959 as the União dos Povos de Angola (UPA) guerrilla movement, and from 1961 as the FNLA guerrilla movement. Ahead of the first multiparty elections in 1992, the FNLA was reorganized as a political party. The FNLA received 2.4% of the votes and had five Members of Parliament elected. In the 2008 parliamentary election, the FNLA received 1.11% of the vote, winning three out of 220 seats. History Origin In 1954, the United People of Northern Angola (UPNA) was formed as a separatist movement for the Bakongo tribe who wished to re-establish its 16th-century feudal kingdom but was also a protest movement against forced labour. Holden Roberto w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Front For The Liberation Of Angola
The National Front for the Liberation of Angola (; Abbreviation, abbreviated FNLA) is a political party and former militant organisation that fought for Angolan independence from Portugal in the Angolan War of Independence, war of independence, under the leadership of Holden Roberto. Founded in 1954 as the União dos Povos do Norte de Angola guerrilla movement, it was known after 1959 as the União dos Povos de Angola (UPA) guerrilla movement, and from 1961 as the FNLA guerrilla movement. Ahead of the first multiparty elections in 1992, the FNLA was reorganized as a political party. The FNLA received 2.4% of the votes and had five Members of Parliament elected. In the Angolan parliamentary election, 2008, 2008 parliamentary election, the FNLA received 1.11% of the vote, winning three out of 220 seats. History Origin In 1954, the United People of Northern Angola (UPNA) was formed as a separatist movement for the Kongo people, Bakongo tribe who wished to re-establish its 16th-c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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União Nacional Para A Independência Total De Angola
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought alongside the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) in the Angolan War for Independence (1961–1975) and then against the MPLA in the ensuing civil war (1975–2002). The war was one of the most prominent Cold War proxy wars, with UNITA receiving military aid initially from the People's Republic of China from 1966 until October 1975 and later from the United States and apartheid South Africa while the MPLA received material and technical support from the Soviet Union and its allies, especially Cuba. Until 1996, UNITA was funded through Angolan diamond mines in both Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul along the Cuango River valley, especially the Catoca mine, which was Angola's only Kimberlite mine at that time. Valdemar Chindondo served as chief of staff in the go ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of countries and dependencies by population, population and is the List of African countries by area, seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an Enclave and exclave, exclave province, the province of Cabinda Province, Cabinda, that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda. Angola has been inhabited since the Paleolithic, Paleolithic Age. After the Bantu expansion reached the region, states were formed by the 13th century and organised into confederations. The Kingdom of Kongo ascended to achieve hegemony among the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Democratic People's Republic Of Angola
The Democratic People's Republic of Angola (), also referred to as Free Angola () or the Free Land of Angola (), was a rival government to that of the People's Republic of Angola during the nation's Angolan Civil War, civil war. It was declared by the FNLA and UNITA in the city of Huambo. It was formed during the dawn of Angolan independence, in November 1975, though by February 1976, its FNLA forces had been largely defeated by the MPLA of the People's Republic of Angola. The Democratic People's Republic, at first, was inspired by Maoism and the Chinese Revolution (1946−1950), Chinese Revolution, including an explicit mention of the construction of socialism in its program, but later moved towards Anti-communism, anti-communist positions. It was initially supported by the China, People's Republic of China and, later, by South Africa and the United States. See also *List of heads of state of the Democratic People's Republic of Angola *List of heads of government of the Democrat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Heads Of State Of Angola
This article lists the presidents of Angola since the establishment of the office of president in 1975. The current president is João Lourenço. He assumed the office on 26 September 2017. Presidents of Angola (1975–present) ''Note:'' For details of the post of President of Angola, see President of Angola. Timeline See also * President of Angola * Vice President of Angola * Prime Minister of Angola ** List of prime ministers of Angola * List of Ngolas of Ndongo * List of colonial governors of Angola * List of heads of state of Democratic People's Republic of Angola * List of heads of government of Democratic People's Republic of Angola This is a list of heads of government of the Democratic People's Republic of Angola. Angola is a country in southern Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast ... Notes References Sources * http://www.rulers.org/rula2.html#angola * http://www ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Heads Of Government Of Angola
This article lists the prime ministers of Angola, from the establishment of the office of prime minister in 1975. The office was abolished in the constitution of 2010. Prime ministers of Angola (1975–2010) , - style="text-align:center;" ! colspan=9, People's Republic of Angola , - style="text-align:center;" , colspan=9, ''Post abolished (9 December 1978 – 19 July 1991)'' , - style="text-align:center;" ! colspan=9, Republic of Angola , - style="text-align:center;" , colspan=8, ''Vacant (29 January 1999 – 6 December 2002)'' Timeline See also * President of Angola ** List of presidents of Angola * Vice President of Angola * Prime Minister of Angola * List of colonial governors of Angola * List of heads of state of Democratic People's Republic of Angola * List of heads of government of Democratic People's Republic of Angola Notes References Sources * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Prime Ministers Of Angola Angola, List of Prime Ministers of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |