Key Oil Port Seized, Angola Rebels Say
UNITA rebels said Tuesday they have captured the port and airport of Angola’s key oil town of Soyo.
The radio station for the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola said that government defeat at the northwestern town was imminent after the second day of fighting around oil installations.
The government admitted that its most important industry was under assault. State-run radio said fighting broke out around Soyo at dawn after attacks on installations Monday that prompted the evacuation of scores of foreign oil workers and their families.
Fighting was still raging around the central provincial capital of Luena, and thousands of men were battling for control of the country’s second-largest city, Huambo in the central highlands, where UNITA was sending in reinforcements.
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