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Title	Angola: Areas under National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) and areas under government control; and whether travelling between these areas is possible
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Angola
Publication Date	5 August 1999
Citation / Document Symbol	AGO32428.E
Reference	7
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Angola: Areas under National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) and areas under government control; and whether travelling between these areas is possible

National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) strongholds are Bailundo, Andulo (AI 1998, 76; AP 17 Dec. 1997; AFP 4 Jan. 1999; ARB Dec. 1997,

13364), whereas the government controls the areas of Bie, Luanda Norte, and Cuito, Malange, Huambo (ARB Dec. 1997, 13365; AI 1998, 76; AP 26 Nov. 1997). However, Country Reports 1998 also reports that about 200 localities changed hands in 1998, although it does not name them (1999, 3).

Country Reports 1998 indicates that travelling to and from UNITA to government-controlled areas is not only hazardous but that both UNITA and the government restrict travel from one area to the other (1999, 8-9). For detailed information on travel inside these areas, please consult Section 2.d. on "Freedom of Movement Within the Country, Foreign Travel, Emigration, and Repatriation."

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series (ARB) [Oxford]. December 1997. "Angola: Spectacular Deterioration."

Agence France Presse (AFP). 7 June 1999. "UN Angola Panel Seeks Sanctions Monitors." (NEXIS)

_____. 4 January 1999. "Angola Slides Back into All-Out Civil War." (NEXIS)

Amnesty International. 1998. Amnesty International Report 1998. London: Amnesty International.

Associated Press (AP). 17 December 1997. Casimiro Siona. "Angola's former Rebels Maintain Grip on Territory," (NEXIS)

______. 26 November 1997. "Ten Prisoners Die in A Government Prison of

Country Reports on Human Rights for Practices 1998.1999. United States Department of State. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office.

Topics: Militias,

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