Significant1975 – 2002 · 27 years

Angolan Civil War

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Angola

Estimated casualties

500Ksingle estimate · no range published

Long civil war following independence with Cold War proxy involvement and diamond exploitation.

Belligerents3

Angola
UNITA
MPLA

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Cuban Intervention in Angola1975–91
UNITA Insurgency1976–2002
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale1987–88

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Angolan Civil War (1975 – 2002). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/angolan-civil-war · Sources & methodology