This Day in History: 13 July 1998
The National Union for the Independence of Angola (UNITA), formed in 1966 by Jonas Savimbi to contest power and access to minerals in Angola, occupied Kuxi in southeastern Kuando Kubango province and Pango-Aluquem in the north. More than 100 000 inhabitants were displaced in the process.
Defence Minister Pedro Sebastiao warned the following day that the country was returning to a situation it faced in 1992, when UNITA's refusal to accept electoral defeat plunged Angola back into civil war.