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Cabinda conflict

Cabinda War
Part of the Angolan Civil War
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Cabinda enclave (red)
Date 8 November 1975 – present
(41 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Location Cabinda Province
Status

Ongoing

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

 Angola
 Cuba (until 1991)


UNITA
(joint operations, 1991)

FLEC

Commanders and leaders
Angola Agostinho Neto (1975–1979)
Angola José Eduardo dos Santos (1979–present)
Cuba Fidel Castro (1976–2008)
Cuba Arnaldo Ochoa  Executed
East Germany Erich Honecker (1975–1989)
Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev (1975–1982)
António Bento Bembe
Henrique N'zita Tiago
Alexandre Builo Tati
Francisco Xavier Lubota
José Tiburcio Zinga Loemba
Strength
Angola 87,000
Cuba 2,000
Soviet Union 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

Ongoing

 Angola
 Cuba (until 1991)

UNITA
(joint operations, 1991)

FLEC

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.


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