Angolan Civil War 1992-1994

Santos and Savimbi signed a peace treaty in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 31, 1991, officially ending the 16-year civil war [in Angola]. It lasted only 18 months before fighting flared up between UNITA rebels and the government, which the US now recognized after years of backing the UNITA [November 1992]. A month before [September 1992], UNITA had lost parliamentary elections that the United Nations deemed free and fair; Savimbi declared them fraudulent. UNITA resumed fighting and gained control of much of the countryside. On November 20, 1994, both sides signed a truce that gave limited power, through government concessions, to the rebels. Because UNITA later balked, the UN Security Council voted (1997) to impose sanctions on it.

References

Dictionary of Wars, 22-3; CIA World Factbook -- Angola

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