Angola is a country in southwestern
Africa. Civil war has been the norm in Angola since independence from
Portugal in
1975. A
1994 peace accord between the government and the [National Union for the Total Independence of Angola]
? (UNITA) provided for the integration of former UNITA insurgents into the government and armed forces. A national unity government was installed in
April of
1997, but serious fighting resumed in late
1998, rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless. Up to 1.5 million lives may have been lost in fighting over the past quarter century.
From the CIA World Factbook 2000. Slightly edited, not completely Wikified.
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