Cease-Fire Gets Off to Wobbly Start in Angola
A cease-fire to end Angola’s 19-year civil war got off to a shaky start Tuesday as government forces and UNITA rebels battled on, each accusing the other of violating the truce.
But the fighting appeared to subside later Tuesday, a few hours after the truce was to begin at 1 p.m.
The cease-fire is part of a power-sharing deal signed Sunday in Zambia, the third peace accord between the rebels and the government, who have been fighting since Angola’s independence from Portugal in 1975.
The last pact failed in 1992 when UNITA, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, lost multi-party elections and returned to war.
The new treaty gives the rebels four Cabinet posts, six ambassadorships and three provincial governorships, a U.N. official said Tuesday.
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