Cabinda War

Cabinda War

Part of the Angolan Civil War

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Cabinda enclave (red)

Date

8 November 1975 – present
(41 years, 3 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)

Location

Cabinda Province

Status

Ceasefire declared by FLEC-Renovada in August 2006
Ongoing guerilla warfare by FLEC-FAC

Belligerents

Angola
Cuba (until 1991)

UNITA
(joint operations, 1991)

Supported by:

East Germany (until 1989)
Soviet Union (until 1989)

FLEC-FAC
FLEC-Renovada
FLEC-N'Zita
FLEC-Lubota
Uniao Nacional de Libertaçao de Cabinda
Communist Committee of Cabinda

Supported by:

Commanders and leaders

Agostinho Neto
José Eduardo dos Santos
Fidel Castro
Arnaldo Ochoa
Erich Honecker (1975–1989)

Leonid Brezhnev (1975–1982)

António Bento Bembe
Henrique N'zita Tiago
Alexandre Builo Tati
Francisco Xavier Lubota

José Tiburcio Zinga Loemba

Strength

87,000

2,000

4

300 – 7,000 in total (1975)
500 (FLEC-Renovada) (1991)
200 – 300 (FLEC-N'Zita) (1991)

600 (FLEC-FAC) (1992)

Casualties and losses

~30,000 killed

25,000 displaced

Angola
Cuba (until 1991)

UNITA
(joint operations, 1991)

Agostinho Neto
José Eduardo dos Santos
Fidel Castro
Arnaldo Ochoa
Erich Honecker (1975–1989)

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