Cabinda War | |||||||
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Part of the Angolan Civil War | |||||||
Cabinda enclave (red) |
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Belligerents | |||||||
UNITA Supported by:
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Supported by:
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Agostinho Neto (1975–1979) José Eduardo dos Santos (1979–present) Fidel Castro (1976–2008) 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 |
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Strength | |||||||
87,000 2,000 4 |
300 – 7,000 in total (1975) |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
~30,000 killed |
UNITA
(joint operations, 1991)
300 – 7,000 in total (1975)
500 (FLEC-Renovada) (1991)
200 – 300 (FLEC-N'Zita) (1991)
~30,000 killed
The Cabinda War is an ongoing separatist insurgency, waged by the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) against the government of Angola. FLEC aims at the restoration of the self-proclaimed Republic of Cabinda, located within the borders of the Cabinda province of Angola.