World at War / Conflicts / Recorded History
World at War
Angolan Civil War
1975–2002
Southern Africa
Status: ended
Casualties: ~800,000+
Twenty-seven years. Cuban troops fought South African forces at Cuito Cuanavale (1987–88), a battle credited with helping end apartheid. Savimbi's UNITA fought on as an insurgency until his death in 2002 ended the war.
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Belligerents
- MPLA (Cuba, USSR)
- UNITA (Savimbi, South Africa, US)
- FNLA
Casualties
~800,000+
From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira.
Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design
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